The Oasis

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.