The Coveted Coat

'The Encyclopaedia of British Film' has now run to four editions yet still hasn't found space for Gaston Quiribet and his series of novelty shorts Q-riosities by "Q".

Made midway between George Melies' trick films and the sequence with the wishing ring in 'Road to Morocco', which this resembles. The intervening quarter of a century that separates Quiribet's films from Melies' hasn't resulted in his little anecdotes being any more sophisticated; but they are smoothly executed with considerably more grace, and also enhanced by the use of actual locations, doubtless long since built up.