Pathe developed a stencil tinting process sometime around 1905 which they felt gave them a competitive edge and made a number of films featuring fantastic scenarios that enabled them to include all number of garish colours to dazzle the audience's eyes. Here we have an Arabian Nights type of story in which a wizard steals a Rajah's casket. The film mixes interior and exterior scenes, and a number of trick effects that were no doubt acceptable for its day but look pretty amateurish today. Then, of course, once the stolen loot has been recovered, we are treated to Pathe's dancing girls. In the print I saw on the internet all the girls body flesh (i.e top of chest and legs) had been crudely painted over in red which was a little distracting to say the least. However, by the time the girls appear the story is effectively over anyway.

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At his palace, the Rajah's casket of jewels is stolen by an evil sorcerer. The Rajah's henchmen go on a search for the valuable casket and find it hidden in a cave, and out of the casket rises a bevy of dancing girls who in turn dance for the delight of the Rajah to end the film.

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