Georges Méliès

The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room, ...

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 ...

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film ...

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 ...

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch’s ...

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he ...

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there’s no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is ...

A magic show.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which ...

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus ...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch ...

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. ...

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the ...

In this film, we show the interior of a doctor’s office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great ...

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the ...

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. ...

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. ...

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man’s home. His children, ...

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.