The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take life and one can follow a snakelike line branding on the polished face of the stone the name of the house of Pathé Frères As soon as this stone has been engraved as by magic a handsome young lady appears with a huge lump of clay covered with a cloth As soon as the cloth is removed from the soft mass it starts whirling and turning as if stricken mad and one is asking ones self what all the contentions are going to lead to when the vague shape of an animal not yet discernible seems to appear and before one has time to make ones mind as to the category of brutes to which it belongs one sees the form of a remarkably well made orangutan modelled out of the clay who calmly smokes his pipe Then the statue is removed by the same winning young lady and another covered block of the same substance is carried forward
