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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...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

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...

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

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 man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

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...

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...

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...

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...

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then...

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

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

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...