3:00 p.m.	A Florida Enchantment Sidney Drew (U.S., 1914)

Chris Straayer is a professor of cinema studies at New York University and the author of Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-orientation in Film and Video.

When Lillian's (Edith Storey) foppish fiancé (director Sidney Drew) is too busy flirting with a wealthy female guest to notice his betrothed, she spitefully ingests a mysterious African seed, hoping for revenge. The next morning Lillian is surprised to find the beginnings of a moustache on her upper lip, and quickly learns to use the transformation to her advantage, becoming a Casanova who—to the shock of her fiancé—earns the affections of almost every girl in town. But when Lillian forces the seed upon her blackface maid, the comedy takes a disconcerting turn. As more and more people succumb to the African drug, the lighthearted comedy increasingly reveals disturbing social mores.

—Laura Horak

• Written by Eugene Mullen, Marguerite Bertsch. Photographed by Robert A. Stuart. With Edith Storey, Sidney Drew, Ethel Lloyd, Grace Stevens. (63 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Library of Congress)

Preceded by shorts:
L'illusioniste fin-de-siècle (Georges Méliès, France, 1899, 1 min, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Anthology Film Archives). Les dés magiques (Segundo de Chomón, France, 1908, 7.5 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From BFI NFTVA, permission Pathé Archives). Magic films delight in the new medium's ability to transform bodies in the wondrous modern age.
A Lively Affair (U.S., director unknown, c. 1913). This orphan film illustrates the "dangers" of the suffrage movement—what would happen if women really wore the pants in the family? (7 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Library of Congress)

• (Total running time: 79 mins)