The dragon council sat around the decades old
Cineflex camera,a 16 mm antique with tubes and the like
from the 1940s.
Originally the antique had been used to shoot Westerns,but the
footage it had been used for that interested the Council was
its use as a stop motion camera in 1955 to record a dwarf model
transforming into a much bigger four footed feral western dragon model for a Sinbad swords and sorcery epic.
Which meant the antique possessed a curse that could transform
a small human actor into a much bigger flamebreathing dragon,who certainly wouldn't be acting once the transformation was complete.
So the Council searched amongst the dragon ranks till they
found a dragon who fancied himself as a Movie Director.
The dragon shapeshifted himself into a human form.took the
cursed camera and bought a huge unused warehouse the Council owned for the experiments.
The actual curse was nothing special,ainm the camera at the
actor auditioning for the part of a dwarf turning into a dragon
get the camera cranking away with film stock in its reals and
the curse would act on the subject in the camera's viewfinder.
So the Director and another dragon disguised as a human cameraman and another dragoness disguised as a hair and
makeup artist got things ready.
Their victim,a unemployed dwarf of a human who was ticked
off at the "dwarf tossing" jokes he had to endure and frankly
liked the notion of acting the part of a medieval dwarf turning into a much bigger dragon,walked into the makeshift studio warehouse and acted the part,with the camera rolling.
The actor must have guessed something was amiss as his
clothing began to tighten around the dwarfs slowly enlarging body,but the Director and the Make Up Artists encouraged him to continue,it was a wonderful
performance,and the makeup rtist simply rubbed skin colourants over the victims slowly darkening skin and added a few flecks of scale glitter around the real emerging dragon scales on the changing victim.
Thus the three disguised dragons managed to fool the emerging
dragon till about
half way in the much bigger victims transformation.
Then they simply chained him to the warehouse floor when it
became necessary and even the former dwarf knew it wasn't all in his head.
They kept the antique camera whirring and had a coffee whilst the once dwarf roared unhappily as he continued to transform
into a four footed feral flamebreather.
The chains held as the beast bellowed and pounded on the floor with its tail,tried to melt the chains trapping it with its
emerging flame breath,but to no avail.
The first human into dragon transformation was a success,and it was all caught on film.