Movies

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

A magician's hat offers many surprises.

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

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...

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès...

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

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

A witch curses a town's well.

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

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...

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...