 A photographing spiritualist resolves to photograph a person without a camera, by the aid of his secret powers. He covers a frame with a sheet of white paper, before which he orders his subject to stand. Lighting a magic powder, one sees the subject gradually disappear and his likeness forms on the paper. The photographer shapes the paper in a large cone, in which is discovered the person who vanished, the paper meanwhile having become entirely blank as at first. This is the first successful attempt to photograph a moving picture with a white background and with the absence of the objectionable flicker.