Tit for Tat (1904)

Name: Tit for Tat
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1904-01-05

Running Time

Plot.

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by levitating above Melies and spewing water on him.

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Cast & Crew.

Georges Méliès

Director

Details.

Release Date
January 5, 1904

Original Name
Un prêté pour un rendu

Status
Released

Running Time
2m

Genres
Comedy

Last updated: 2025-02-11

Wiki.

Un prêté pour un rendu (une bonne farce avec ma tête), sold in the United States as Tit for Tat, or a Good Joke With My Head and in Britain as "Tit for Tat"—The head in a case, is a 1904 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 540–541 in its catalogues.

Méliès plays the magician in the film, one of several in his oeuvre involving multiplied heads. The special effects are created with substitution splices and multiple exposures.

A paper print of the film survives at the Library of Congress.