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...

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

A sorceress conjures up a bevy of beauties for a bachelor to peruse.

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

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

The interior of a trolley car. A menagerie of passengers notices a foul odour, and pinpoint the source of the stench at a cheese saleswoman. The...

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.

Lucifers fall from grace

A Spanish dancer, in front of an inn in the Spanish mountains, is courted by a smuggler, who asks her to marry him. She agrees. Later, in the...

A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris.

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

A mischievous duke comes across a drunkard in a town square, and decides to pull a practical joke. He has the drunkard carried to the ducal palace...

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then...

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment...

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

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost. Though the plot of the film is unknown, it may have...

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open...

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