Georges Méliès Movies

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

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

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

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...

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...

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

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.

Lucifers fall from grace

A group of people take roller skating too far.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

A magician blows some big bubbles and makes heads of women appear inside them.

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

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

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

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,...