Georges Méliès Movies

A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only.

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

A sleeping apartment of a friend who retires for the night. The rays of the moon are shining upon the bed through the window. He is suddenly awakened...

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

A man makes twenty complete changes in two minutes, combining with them dances. The changes are made in full sight of the audience. Biondi, Fregoli...

Lost short film from Georges Méliès.

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

After numerous exhibitions of the black art by the magician, he causes a handsome young woman to appear suspended in the air. She slowly turns until...

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

Henry the Eighth, King of England, had six wives, and it is well known that he had several of them put to death, some by the axe, some by poison, and...

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

The staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest.

Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès' granddaughter and...

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

Lost short comedy film by Georges Méliès

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).