Georges Méliès Movies

A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version...

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

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...

1908 French short silent Christmas film by Georges Méliès, which is now presumed lost. The film, combining American ideas about Santa...

A Country school room is first seen in this picture in which so many startling changes take place that the Master is bewildered and is driven mad by...

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

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...

1908 French silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

The film poked fun at phrenology—a highly popular 19th-century pseudoscience that claimed a person's skull shape and "bumps" could determine...

Melies short.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring...

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...

A performing magician divides into two people. The doubles then take turns doing tricks before merging back into one man.

A short French fantasy film.

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...

After numerous exhibitions of the black art by the magician, he causes a handsome young woman to appear suspended in the air. She slowly turns until...

"This view represents a grand transformation scene of several tableaux, the more interesting and the more surprising in the order of their...