An anti-spiritualist medium : stage magic and the beginnings of cinema -- The death of magic? presentational performance and early film -- Behind the curtain : Méliès at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin -- Up-to-date magic : theatrical conjuring and the trick film -- Houdini's actuality magic : escaping the "ghost house" with moving pictures -- Lost in transition : sensational fiction and the limits of narrative integration -- Epilogue.