Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Action • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès, Jules Verne, Adolphe d'Ennery
Cast
Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy
Plot
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Adventure • Country: France • Language: French, English
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès, Madame d'Aulnoy
Cast
Georges Méliès, Marguerite Thévenard, Bleuette Bernon
Plot
In this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Drama • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Charles Perrault
Cast
Mlle Barral, Bleuette Bernon, Carmelli
Plot
A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Horror • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Plot
As an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
With a brand-new deck of playing cards in his hand, an elegantly-attired thaumaturge, by fire and the pure power of illusion, transforms a plain nine of spades card into a full-size Queen of Hearts.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Adventure • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès, Jules Verne
Cast
Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Plot
Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adven...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès
Cast
Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Plot
Right in front of our very eyes, two attractive and feminine women metamorphose into two professional wrestlers who begin a no-holds-barred wrestling match.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Mlle. Bodson, Manuel, Georges Méliès
Plot
As the clock strikes twelve, a weary astronomer attempts to answer the impertinent enquiries of his young students by scrutinising an impending lunar eclipse, as an effeminate and delicate moon caresses the mighty sun's hungry cos...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Horror • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A man dressed in red is ushered into an antechamber in a Castle and offered a seat. When he tried to sit down the chair moves to the other side of the room causing the man to fall on the floor. Standing up he strides to the chair ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Jonathan Swift
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput, the inhabitants of which are no more than six inches tall. He later travels to Brobdingnag, a country populated by giants.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
Deep into a vast cavern of the pitch-black inferno, a couple of professional dancers demonstrate the cakewalk that is currently so much in vogue, and now, everyone in the once-gloomy underworld is doing the crazy dance. Who is the...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
Through a rapid succession of drawings, ingenious disguises and soft dissolves, the director portrays a quick-sketch artist who transforms to various characters according to the static outlines on his chalkboard.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
As if by magic, a weary traveller trying to undress, is foiled by his mutinous clothes as they teleport and multiply before his eyes, refusing to stay on the clothing rack.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
In this trickery extravaganza, Excelsior, the wizard of illusion, pulls out a handkerchief from his pocket, and after that, everything is possible in his rare and spectacular show.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
Despite all methods of instantaneously masking a clandestine gambling den's shady activities, the risk of getting caught is high, especially when the police thirsts for success. But, sometimes, indulging in pure fun is just too te...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
As we are treated with a rare appearance from a true master of the miraculous Asian thaumaturgy, a fine display of multiplication commences, and a serene young geisha completes the enchantment. What does the Chinese conjurer have ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Adventure • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Plot
King Edward VII of England and the President of the French Republic, Armand Fallières, envision tunnelling the English Channel; nevertheless, only a maiden voyage can determine whether this is a triumphant aspiration or an acrid n...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Manuel, Georges Méliès
Plot
In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A magnificent Venetian oratory. On the left a large bay window through which may be seen the Grand Canal of the city of Venice. In the centre a colonnade and a hemicycle; to the right is a statue of the Madonna. At the beginning o...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
From the depths of a plain wooden box, a skilful conjurer materializes a lively boy in a clown suit. Next, he takes a heavy battle-axe. What are his intentions?
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
Sound asleep in his comfortable armchair next to a high-pressure retort, a mystic silver-haired alchemist can't even notice the strange manifestations emerging from the vessel's bottom. Is this a dream, or a cornucopia of secreted...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into the place a lot of Turkish ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Friedrich Schiller
Cast
na
Plot
Atop a wonderful central pedestal, a happy clown puts the finishing touches on a William Tell's incomplete model, assembling the mannequin limb by limb with the intention of shooting a target off of its head with a potent crossbow.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Gottfried August Bürger, Théophile Gautier
Cast
na
Plot
After an evening of excessive wining and dining Baron Munchausen must be helped to bed by his servants. Once asleep, he has bizarre and frightening dreams.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
The king of France receives a marvelous fan. The fan opens to reveal plain lace. This lace becomes pictures of women which then come to life an move in unison as their clothing changes.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
The conjurer appears at a blackboard and shows the head of a knight on it. He seizes the picture of the head, removes it from the blackboard, and it turns into life and bows and smiles apparently with a body being attached to it. ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A hawker demonstrates his glue's exceptional qualities; however, a pair of policemen shut him down. Bent on revenge, he goes to extreme lengths for justice, but it's a risky action, and one could easily get a taste of his own medi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, History • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place during the eruption are plain to be seen. Thousands upon thousands of tons of molten l...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A man comes onto the stage through the fireplace, divides himself, and sits on stools on either side of a table. He places a woman's head on the table and a hat on her head. She speaks to both men, turning her head as she talks. O...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Adventure • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Jules Verne
Cast
Manuel, Georges Méliès
Plot
Undersea adventures in a submarine by a dreaming fisherman who encounters mystical underwater creatures at odds with him. A parody on Jules Verne's novel.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
When this picture opens, you see a large book mounted on an easel. An old student is seen poring over old manuscripts when he advances toward the book, and by the aid of some mysterious power he causes an old man, a clown and a pr...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Sci-Fi • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Fernande Albany, Georges Méliès
Plot
An eccentric photographer demonstrates the wonders of technology to a couple who want to be photographed by his innovative wireless procedure that accents one's inner personality. Are they prepared for the harsh truth of the camer...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Adventure • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A poor but honest young man wins the hand of a beautiful Princess after facing a series of exciting adventures involving apparitions, cartwheeling skeletons, a dragon, and plump dancing girls from the Folies Bergere.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
An ancient tower, in which is seated the magician, occupies the centre of the stage. On either side of the tower is a statue. The magician waves his hands and the tower and both statues disappear. He then removes his coat and seat...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
An energetic Russian Cossack dancer who knows how to impress his audience with his extraordinary set of moves has a trick up his sleeve designed to capture applause.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate palanquin is summoned. Now, what does the illusionist have in mind?
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
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 their governess, are about to retire. Before lying down they hang up their stock...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
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. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seven bags in a strong box, an...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Hector Berlioz, Georges Méliès
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
Scenes. 1. The Route to the Depths of Perdition (a Dazzingly Sensational New Effect.) 2. The Fantastical Ride. 3. The Gloomy Pass. 4. The Stream. 5. The Entrance to the Lower Regions. 6. The Marvelous Grottoes (tableau with six di...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, War • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated painting.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
To escape the manager's wrath, a naughty cook who caused a small disaster with his amorous advances to a delicious waitress, hides in a wooden cupboard and suffers an immediate and unforeseen punishment. But, is this truly the end?
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A man and two women sit down to eat dinner, but several unexpected surprises prevent them from their repast: the legs of the table grow, the table disappears into the floor, and a ghostly spirit appears and takes possession of the...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès, Jeanne Mareyla
Plot
A man attempts to sit on a stool, only to find a woman has magically appear to steal his place. This happens again and again. Soon, more amazing transformations occur.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A traveler 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 happen in his room, and before long he has created a disturbance that has everyone ru...
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès
Cast
Fernande Albany, Antonich, Blondet
Plot
A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special car, who claims that he can get there in just two hours. Complications ensue.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
Falling into the same perplexing predicament that doomed the hapless travellers in Going to Bed with Difficulties (1900), and The Bewitched Inn (1897), an unsuspecting man is harassed by an annoying poltergeist. Can he outsmart it?
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A man wishing to catch a train, and having left himself none too much time to do so, rises from his couch and proceeds to don his garments. These, however, change in a most fearful manner, trousers becoming a coat, a coat a waistc...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Crime • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Gaston Méliès
Cast
Manuel, Georges Méliès
Plot
A gang of cutthroats set ablaze a farmhouse after killing the farmer and stealing the proceeds of his sales. Captured and tried for his crimes, the pitiless plunderer faces death by guillotine, but first, a night of pure agony awa...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
Misidentified as The Mysterious Retort (1906), sadly, this film is currently presumed lost; however, according to Wikipedia, an anthropomorphous star with five female heads and a giant face has people coming out of its mouth.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
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 all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after the manner of a cook, he ex...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
na
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his arms about and suddenly turns into a magician. The magician produces an egg, perform...
