You get the tickets. We've got the plan.
Movie buffs and theatre-lovers can look forward to some very different billings this week.
The Hong Kong Film Archive's Attraction And Magic - Early European Cinema exhibition explores the earliest movies, examines their cinematic tricks and introduces buffs to their stars.
Before the invention of computer- generated special effects, the European pioneers of film had to use their wits and artistic skill to devise images of flying saucers, vanishing wizards and monstrous beasts.
Their favourite techniques included the superimposition of images, dissolving shots and chrono-photography. These devices might seem pretty basic today, but you might understand why audiences were wowed nearly a century ago when you see them in the event's Invention, Spectacle and Beauty sections.
The innovative appearances, disappearances and metamorphoses of French director and magician George Melies are particularly entrancing and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department has treated cinema enthusiasts to showings of treasured Italian, French and German films at the event, which runs at the archive's exhibition hall at 50 Lei King Road, Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong (tel: 2739 2139) until February 29.