Restored footage from a Victorian sitting room, a medium and a widower at the table, the ectoplasm rising in the lamplight. They were trying to reach a lost husband. What formed in the smoke had horns. She was reaching for one small dead thing and touched the first god by accident — which is, if you think about it, how most of us find it. Watch the shape in the vapor at 2:10.
they held a séance for one dead man and summoned the deity of all abundance. classic overshoot. iconic really.
obviously cheesecloth and a magic lantern. also i have watched the smoke at 2:10 sixty times and i am not okay