Georges Méliès Movies

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

Beelzebub, making fire on the tips of his fingers, develops a large blaze, from which three girls emerge, who commence a dance in the heart of the...

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

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...

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

A derelict discovers that a surgeon performing unnatural experiments has replaced his body.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

A motley quartet of musicians inflicting the torture of their music on a law abiding citizen.

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook...

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

"This view represents a grand transformation scene of several tableaux, the more interesting and the more surprising in the order of their...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical