Georges Méliès Movies

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

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

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

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

A prestidigitator orders his assistant to bring a cabinet, which is displayed piece by piece to the audience. Two gentlemen are then introduced; they...

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he...

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

A magician's hat offers many surprises.

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

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

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

Two men in a cave perform magic.

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

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,...

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version...