Georges Méliès Movies

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

It is the proceedings of a spiritualist séance. A table whirls around, spirits appear and disappear, and other marvelous feats savoring of the...

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping...

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is...

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

Henry the Eighth, King of England, had six wives, and it is well known that he had several of them put to death, some by the axe, some by poison, and...

A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris.

Shows a drunkard in a road man's cell, raving. He sleeps and dreams that he has a huge flask before him; this he attempts to grasp, but awakens,...

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

1908 French short silent Christmas film by Georges Méliès, which is now presumed lost. The film, combining American ideas about Santa...

Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor to the King, is thrust into a dungeon because he has offended His Majesty by not being able for some time past to produce...

1908 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly...

The thief who robbed and killed a shoe dealer is sentenced to death by inhaling the fumes of his own shoes.