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 group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.

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 magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

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. ...

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to ...

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 ...

King Edward VII’s coronation ceremony.

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. ...

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place ...