Movies

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his...

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

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 man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

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 penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and...

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

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

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

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...

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

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

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...

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...