Georges Méliès Movies

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment....

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks...

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....

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...

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

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...

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

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts...

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other...

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.