[3] According to recollections by André Méliès, the snake was a "gadget" his father had brought back from England, worked by wires and springs.
[2] Some of the ghosts in the dream sequence are actors wearing white sheets; others are silhouettes cut out of cardboard.
[1] For Méliès's more complex films, it was expected that a summary of the action, known as a boniment, would be read aloud during projection to help viewers follow the plot.
[1] A 1981 Méliès study produced by the Centre national du cinéma highlighted the carefully introduced and constructed dream sequence in the film, and added that Méliès's invention of the village idiot character allows the film to move from reality to dream and back in a fluid and balanced way.
[2] Cultural historian Richard Abel called the film a "colorful forest fantasy," highlighting its overt theatricality and strong roots to the Planquette operetta.