Georges Méliès Movies

A fencing match. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around...

Two men in a cave perform magic.

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

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

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

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the...

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

A prestidigitator orders his assistant to bring a cabinet, which is displayed piece by piece to the audience. Two gentlemen are then introduced; they...

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

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

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

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...

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks...

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...

A dispute takes place between some traveling musicians while they are giving a concert in a courtyard. The Janitor of the house. who mixes himself up...

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

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...