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Henri Desfontaines checks into a hotel and looks forward to a night on the town but hasn't a decent pair of gloves. The concierge phones a shop and a girl comes and sells him a pair and tailors it to his hands. That evening, he encounters a demi-mondaine and goes to her apartment with her. On a whim, he steals a necklace. When he leaves, he drops the gloves, which a man on the street picks up, puts on and breaks into the woman's apartment as she discovers her missing jewels. He kills her, steals a few items and drops the gloves. When the police arrive, they find the easily traceable gloves.

Albert Capellani's ironic movie in sixteen scenes is from a play by Georges Docquois. It's an ambitious piece, with some nice camera work, including a nice double-exposure shot for the shop. However, the acting is still very stagey. Subtler movie pantomime would not begin to penetrate French cinema for a couple of years.

A man finds himself wrongly accused of murder after leaving some incriminating evidence behind at the scene of a robbery. A comparatively sophisticated short from 1908 which doesn't rush its plot or spoon-feed its audience unnecessarily. It also features an impressive split-screen scene in which two people holding a telephone conversation are separated by a long-shot of a busy city street to signify the distance between them.