Un homme de têtes (1898)
Directed by Georges Méliès

Film Synopsis

A well-dressed magician standing between two wooden tables casually pulls his head from his shoulders and places it on one of the tables, where it proceeds to chatter and move about of its own accord.  The magician then sprouts another head and, after a verbal exchange with his original head, he removes his new head and puts it beside the first.  To prove that four heads are better than two, the magician then grows himself another head, removes this one and positions it on the second table before growing yet another one.  The reason for this extraordinary exhibition will now become apparent.

The magician picks up a banjo and seats himself on a chair, before launching into a cheerful ballad, with his three disembodied heads providing the chorus.  Inexplicably, the magician then becomes irate and bashes the two heads on the left-hand table with his instrument.  These vanish into thin air, along with the head that the magician then rips from his own body.  The headless musician picks up his last remaining head from the right-hand table and throws it up into the air, whereupon it lands neatly on his shoulders.   His show concluded, the magician takes a final bow to his audience and then walks off.