This scene, performed in a magnificent setting, represents a Chinese conjurer who, after transforming a Buddha into a pretty woman, makes her disappear in an enormous lantern. Then, taking this lantern again and making it smaller as he wishes, he multiplies it to the point of forming a superb garland which hangs from the ceiling. Then, we see a shower of confetti fall which he, using a fan, rises into a vase from which emerges the woman who appeared to us previously. Finally, after changing her into a man, he makes the latter disappear in turn.
—Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé