Movies: Georges Méliès

A magician produces a living portrait of himself....

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing....

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor....

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female....

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is prohibited....

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus....

Maître Labori is seen approaching the bridge of Rennes in company with Colonel Picquart and M. Gast, Mayor of Rennes. They notice that they are followed by another man to whom Colonel Picquart calls Labori's attention. They, however, consider his pro...

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the enemy is about to overrun this position....

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and offers him something better....

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon....

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by hand to colour it. Originally a 15 minute film, twelve and a half minutes of painted film have been fo...

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly....

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area....

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box....

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs of ancient Araby. Guided by the mysterious Khalafar, the troupe (alongside him go some cowardly schol...

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first....

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace....

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison....

A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris....

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony....