Georges Méliès Movies

The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they...

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...

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

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...

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

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

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 man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

Shows the interior of the cell of the Prison Militaire du Cherche-Midi, Paris, where Colonel Henry is confined. He is seated at a table writing a...

During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur...

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...

A magic show.

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

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

The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the...