[1] It was Devant who, in 1896, sold Méliès a film projector made by the British pioneer Robert Paul.
[1] D. Devant, Conjurer was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 101 in its catalogues.
[2] In Britain, the Philipp Wolff Company also sold it, under the title Devant's Hat Trick.
[2] However, a flipbook showing a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, published by Léon Beaulieu in the late 1890s, was rediscovered in the 2010s and has been tentatively identified as a fragment of the film.
[4][5] Two of Devant's films for Paul appear to survive in a very similar fragmentary format, as short sequences for flipbook-like devices.