Georges Méliès Movies

The setting of this view is a series of underground grottoes, a part of the marvelous realm of Satan, through which the latter escorts a gentleman...

Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor to the King, is thrust into a dungeon because he has offended His Majesty by not being able for some time past to produce...

In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.

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...

A magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

Silent film from Georges Méliés. It is presumed to be lost.

Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is...

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun...

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

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...

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...

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

The Count de Cagliostro, who occupies his spare time in working magic, has invited one of his friends to be present at an exhibition which has for...