Georges Méliès Movies

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

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 movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

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...

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends,...

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering...

This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to...

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

“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 magician's hat offers many surprises.

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

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

The infamous Dreyfus is finally brought before a court martial.