Clara and Her Mysterious Toys
Directed by Émile Cohl1913 3m[Animation](/on-demand/category/animation), [Short](/on-demand/category/short)
Little Clara Horton, "the Eclair Kid," is shown in the rainy-day pastime of cutting up paper into bits. Tiring of this, Clara throws a handful into the air. The pieces automatically gather toward a common center, and marshal themselves about into a toy aeroplane, which takes flights as easily as though controlled at the helm. As this fades, more bits thrown up by the child form into a box of colors which weave themselves into many pretty designs that culminate in the words, "You're welcome." It is still raining, so another handful transposes itself into a Japanese doll, which grows under your eyes limb by limb. Mme. Butterfly, as Clara calls the doll, grows smaller and smaller, until she disappears to a dot which suddenly assumes the form of a paper square. As you look, a gorgeous butterfly appears on this and flutters its wings gracefully. The scene fades back into the first picture of Little Clara, but she is now surrounded by the very toys you have seen, instead of the paper bits. She daintily throws "a million of kisses" to you in farewell.
