Georges Méliès Movies

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...

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...

A group of people take roller skating too far.

An easel appears, and soon after a canvas "walks" up from the floor of its own accord and takes its place on the easel. Now an artist's portfolio is...

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...

Melies second attempt at telling the story of Faust. This time out Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the...

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his...

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

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...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

Lost trick film

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

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...

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

Before going to war with his neighbors, the King reviews his men. The Queen's Musketeer's, who number only young men, are proclaimed the best drilled...

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

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.

Beelzebub, making fire on the tips of his fingers, develops a large blaze, from which three girls emerge, who commence a dance in the heart of the...

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.