Movies: Manuel
- 1907
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1907)
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The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine to the bottom of the ocean, where he encounters both realistic and fanciful sea creatures, including...
- 1907
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)
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In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of youn...
- 1909
Whimsical Illusions (1909)
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In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant....
- 1906
A Desperate Crime (1906)
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A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost....
- 1907
Sightseeing Through Whisky (1907)
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John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site of a ruin where he starts having hallucinations....
- 1907
Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil (1907)
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The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then picks up as the painter goes haywire and sends the assistant into the painting....
- 1908
Tribulations; or, The Misfortunes of a Cobbler (1908)
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The Merchant, the Farrier, and the Roman accompany a mysterious woman into a magical cave full of terrors and wonders....