Un homme de têtes is a short film directed by Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès , full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects...

 in 1898. It was probably made with stop motion

Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

cameras and/or super imposing (the recorder records two films and puts them together). The film features George Méliès with two tables next to him. He puts a head on a table and it starts talking and looking around on the table. It features him doing the same and putting them on and off throughout the film and plays a banjo.