A couple of Spanish filmmaker Segundo de Chomón's films contained elements which were previously used by his competitor, Georges Méliès, in many earlier films, but were used for a different effect. Having seen all of Méliès's available output, I should know what I'm talking about. Here, Chomón borrows the legendary french filmmaker's ideas of dancing midgets appearing in place of eggs (which had been used in Méliès's "The Dancing Midget" from 1902). The midgets do dance here, but instead of the egg exploding to reveal the midget, the magician (Julienne Mathieu, Chomón's wife) opens up the eggs and the dancers come out. Essentially, this idea is much better then what Méliès did.
As many films of Chomón's work are, this film survives stencil-colored and as such looks very good. The superimposition work is excellent for the period and isn't shaky one bit, as opposed to Méliès's films where the superimposed bit of film would shake a lot and give away the effect. In addition, the cuts are also seamless for the most part and the film certainly achieves the look it was going for.
The above does not at all mean Chomón was above stealing from other directors, however. A year later in 1908, Chomón did also did a film called "Microscopic Dancer" which also starred Julienne Mathieu and, from the title, seems to have been a complete ripoff of Méliès's short. No comparison can be made there, however, as it is unavailable online and is probably a lost film.