Georges Méliès Movies

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...

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

Shows hobbies of people who do an ordinary job in the day. Made for New York Fair.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

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

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

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

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

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

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...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

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...

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a...