Georges Méliès Movies

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

A magician's hat offers many surprises.

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

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

Short film about a magician.

William Shakespeare, struggling to write the assassination scene for his play Julius Caesar, settles into an armchair and begins to daydream the...

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

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...

A magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

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

Upon a visit to UVM's Lane Series in the Spring of 2022, Jean-Francois Alcolea offered to conduct a workshop to UVM film students and others on his...

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...

This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville...