The Untamable Whiskers

Georges Méliès, after greeting the audience, makes a rapid-fire chalkboard sketch of his head, but adding a long medieval wig.

Next Méliès draws an elderly, heavily bearded man, and then a monocled gentleman with sideburns, magically transforming into each character.

Writing "comic excentric" (a French phrase for an eccentric comedian) on the board, he next becomes a clown, then a whiskery naval type in a bicorne.

[1] The film's special effects depend on substitution splices and dissolves as well as on Méliès's talents for drawing, makeup, and character acting.

It was sold in the United States as The Untamable Whiskers and in Britain as The King of the Mackerel Fishers,[2] and is also known as Les Moustaches indomptables.