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Georges Méliès (December 9, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come. A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for decades to come. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician".
Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896).
In early 1909 Méliès stopped making films to protest Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Parents Company monopoly, and presided over the first meeting of the International Filmmakers Congress in Paris. Further financial hardships created by his opposition to Edison and diminishing influence, Méliès disappeared from public life. By the mid-1920s he made a meager living as a candy and toy salesma in Paris, with the assistance of funds collected by other filmmakers. Although he was recognized for his contributions in cinema, Méliès spent most of his later years in poverty before being accepted into La Maison du Retraite du Cinéma, the film industry's retirement home in Orly.
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01 January 1896
Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray.
01 October 1899
A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?
01 January 1898
The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal.
24 December 1896
In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.
15 January 1908
During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.
31 January 1908
Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.
05 July 1902
The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand.
01 January 1900
A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair.
27 January 1905
A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.
25 July 1903
At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears.
09 August 1902
King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.
01 January 1899
A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.
01 January 1900
The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.
01 January 1897
A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.
04 November 1899
The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer was falsely convicted of treason, and it was alleged that he was framed due to anti-semitism.
30 January 1909
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
01 January 1899
A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into pandemonium.
18 May 1903
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
01 January 1898
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.
03 May 1912
A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists.
23 May 1908
A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.
26 May 1904
A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
11 June 2019
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.
15 June 1902
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon.
01 January 1898
St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!
06 August 1900
A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
05 February 1904
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 of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist.
14 December 1901
A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.
01 November 1907
The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room, culminating in his summoning up a charming lady to share his meal.
19 April 1902
“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth.
01 January 1897
A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his room--beds vanishing and re-appearing, candles exploding, pants flying through the air and his shoes walking away by themselves.
25 July 1901
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
08 February 1908
This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just thrown his family out a window.
01 January 1896
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.
01 January 1899
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 pot.
29 June 1901
Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.
01 January 1900
A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.
01 January 1897
A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.
09 August 1902
This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment of six pretty maidens.
07 June 1907
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe.
01 January 1897
An artist attempts to touch his model who is playing Venus. Later remade in 1900. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same time.
01 January 1898
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 leaps.
01 January 1898
A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.
01 June 1906
A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.
01 November 1907
John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site of a ruin where he starts having hallucinations.
07 May 1913
An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.
20 April 1906
A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.
01 January 1897
An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon.
23 May 1907
The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish.
01 January 1900
In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return to his head and shoulders as soon as he takes them off.
01 January 1898
With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.
01 January 1900
A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.
01 January 1899
A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.
08 August 1900
The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home.
15 December 1905
A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a mercantile establishment when the cops stage a raid.
30 October 1903
Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall.
18 May 1897
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 painting.
01 January 1900
A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.
02 December 1907
Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future.
