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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1689

Slippery Jim

19098 minFrance

Synopsis

A captured pickpocket repeatedly slips out of police custody through impossible transformations. Vanishing acts, a flying bicycle and a change into a snake make ordinary restraints useless.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 8:21
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Segundo de Chomón · Public domain

DirectorsSegundo de Chomón

Behind the scenes

Segundo de Chomón builds this Pathé trick film around animation and substitution effects. The supernatural thief belongs to a recurring theme in his comic work.

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Availability checked on September 22, 2026.

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