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A Florida Enchantment

191463 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

Visiting Florida before her marriage, Lillian buys mysterious seeds said to reverse a person's sex. A quarrel with her fiancé prompts her to try one, unsettling the courtship and the expectations around her. Further transformations turn the holiday into a fantasy of shifting identities and attractions.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
63:30
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Vitagraph Studios · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsSidney Drew

Historical context

Later viewers have read the film through histories of queer and transgender representation, although its comic conventions belong to its own period. The production also uses blackface, placing those gender experiments alongside racist performance practices.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 15, 2026.

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