Movies: Georges Méliès

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 stockings on the edge of ...

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, and makes with his han...

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

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos....

A magician's hat offers many surprises....

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life....

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor....

It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Finally, he goes to bed and falls asleep, but ba...

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is prohibited....

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell. Two guards stealthily approach the cot upon which Dreyfus is sleeping. They awake him and read to him ...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony....

A compellation of many silent films from all over the world, given music and sound design....

A witch curses a town's well....

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer then has a large box brought in. It is opened, revealing a very large folding fan. When the fan is spre...

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from behind it. The dog becomes a woman, then a mas...

Characters from a large magic book come to life....

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

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale....

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first....

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his unsuspecting fellow officers....