Georges Melies - A Nightmare - Le Cauchemar (1896)
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
In this fantastic scene, a man who is eager to retire has a difficult time finding peace, as his nocturnal illusions come to life out of thin air.
Georges Melies - A Terrible Night - Une nuit terrible (1896)
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.
Georges Melies - Cinderella - Cendrillon Georges Melies (1899)
Running Time: 6 mins Black & White
Starring: Mlle Barral, Bleuette Bernon, Carmelli
A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?
Georges Melies - Conquest of the North Pole - La Conqu?te du pole (1912)
Running Time: 33 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Scientists from all over the world are meeting to discuss the best way to reach the North Pole. Professor Maboul demonstrates for them the innovative equipment that he has designed for the purpose. When everything is ready, Maboul and several other scientists depart for the pole. Their trip will prove to be even more eventful than expected.
Georges Melies - Fugitive Apparitions (1904)
Running Time: 2 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
A series of disappearing acts as performed by a magician and his Spanish-garbed assistant.
Georges Melies - Good Glue Sticks (1907)
Running Time: 5 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
A hawker demonstrates his glue's exceptional qualities; however, a pair of policemen shut him down. Bent on revenge, he goes to extreme lengths for justice, but it's a risky action, and one could easily get a taste of his own medicine.
Georges Melies - Jupiter's Thunderballs - Le Tonnerre de Jupiter (1903)
Running Time: 4 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
Brief "trick film" in which Zeus and two other gods romp with dancing girls on Olympian clouds.
Georges Melies - Le Voyage de la famille Bourrichon - The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family (1913)
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
The Bourrichon Family is in debt and must go on a journey to escape their creditors. But these creditors are persistent and pursue the family wherever they go, until the family must finally give up hope of escaping them and are forced to pay the money they owe.
Georges Melies - Misfortune Never Comes Alone - Un Malheur n'arrive jamais seul (1903)
Running Time: 3 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical.
Georges Melies - Pharmaceutical Hallucinations (1908)
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
An alchemist owns a pharmacy for the rich. His assistants play a trick on him and put a drug in his medicine, resulting with ghostly hallucinations visiting him. He goes to a wizard for help, who brings forth a fairy. The fairy transforms the pharmacy into a candy shop for the poor.
Georges Melies - The Artist and the Mannikin - L'Artiste et le Mannequin (1900)
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
A woman replaces herself with a mannequin as a practical joke.
Georges Melies - The Bewitched Inn aka L'auberge ensorcel?e (1897)
Running Time: 2 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
At a solitary cheap inn, a distant traveller overcome with fatigue has a close encounter with the supernatural.
Georges Melies - The Conquest of the Pole (1912)
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Scientists from all over the world are meeting to discuss the best way to reach the North Pole. Professor Maboul demonstrates for them the innovative equipment that he has designed for the purpose. When everything is ready, Maboul and several other scientists depart for the pole. Their trip will prove to be even more eventful than expected.
Georges Melies - The Dainaid's Barrel (1900)
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
Dainaid demonstrates that he can fit 8 women into a magic barrel.
Georges Melies - The Devil in a Convent - Diable au convent (1899)
Running Time: 3 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.
Georges Melies - The Devilish Tenant - Le Locataire Diabolique (1909)
Running Time: 6 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Claudel, Octavie Huvier, François Lallement
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
Georges Melies - The Devil's Castle (1887)
Running Time: 3 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
eleased under different titles in France--and not surprisingly, often confused with its analogous 1896 movie, "Le Manoir du Diable (1896)"--Georges Méliès' Haunted Castle is considered, by all means, a remake.
Georges Melies - The Dreyfus Affair (1899)
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
Dramatized re-enactments of the events of the Dreyfus-affair from 1894 to 1899.
Georges Melies - The Eclipse - L'clipse du soleil en pleine lune (1907)
Running Time: 9 mins Black & White
Starring: Mlle. Bodson, Manuel, Georges Méliès
An astronomer of age, wealth, and erudition conducts classes in his home. His students are not always respectful, and he suffers their pranks and high jinks. Then, at noon, everything darkens and the astronomer hurries upstairs to his telescope. It is an eclipse of the sun, and through his glass, he sees a female moon coming toward a masculine sun, flirting as they move closer to what becomes a consummation. The heavens erupt with showers of stars that become women. In his excitement, the astronomer loses what little dignity he has left.
Georges Melies - The Enchanted Well - Le Puits fantastique (1903)
Running Time: 4 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
Denied a handout, a witch exacts vengeance by cursing the village well.
Georges Melies - The Eruption of Mount Pelee (1902)
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Unknown
This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place during the eruption are plain to be seen. Thousands upon thousands of tons of molten lava, sand, rocks and steam are thrown high in the air and descend with crushing force upon the unfortunate inhabitants of the doomed city of St. Pierre. This is the worst calamity which occurred since a similar eruption by Mt. Vesuvius when Pompeii was destroyed.
Georges Melies - The Hilarious Posters - Les Affiches en goguette (1906)
Running Time: 3 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.
Georges Melies - The Human Fly - L'homme mouche (1902)
Running Time: 2 mins Color
Starring: Georges Méliès
An energetic Russian Cossack dancer who knows how to impress his audience with his extraordinary set of moves has a trick up his sleeve designed to capture applause.
Georges Melies - The Magician - Le Magicien (1898)
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
In a traditional "magician" attire, the wizard of illusion and jump cuts, Georges Méliès, says the magic words and conjures up wonders from a plain wooden box.
Georges Melies - The Merry Frolics of Satan - Les Quatre cents farces du diable (1906)
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
Two travelers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil.
Georges Melies - The Monster - Le Monstre (1903)
Running Time: 3 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx. The prince promises him a vast fortune if the dervish will only give him the opportunity of gazing once more upon the features of his wife. The dervish accepts the offer. He brings in from a neighboring tomb the receptacle containing the remains of the princess. He opens it and removes the skeleton, which he places upon the ground close beside him. Then, turning to the moon and raising his arms outstretched toward it, he invokes the moon to give back life to her who is no more. The skeleton begins to move about, becomes animated, and arises. The dervish puts it upon a bench and covers it with a white linen; a masque conceals its ghostly face. At a second invocation the skeleton begins again to move, arises, and performs a weird dance. In performing its contortions it partly disappears in the ground. While performing its feats it increases gradually in size, its neck assuming enormous proportions, much to the horror of the prince, who fails to see in this grotesque character the wife whom he has lost. The dance ceases. The dervish throws a veil over the hideous creature. Then appear the real princess as she was when her husband possessed her. The prince darts forward to take her into his arms to give her a last kiss, but the dervish stops him, wraps the young lady in the veil and throws her into the arms of the prince. When he removes the veil he finds only the skeleton of his former wife. The vision has disappeared, and the princess has returned to dust. The dervish withdraws, and the prince pursues him with his threats and curses.
Georges Melies - The One-Man Band - L'Homme Orchestre (1900)
Running Time: 2 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
A band-leader assembles an orchestra by mystifying means.
Georges Melies - The Oracle of Delphi (1903)
Running Time: 2 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès
A thief attempts to steal treasure from the tomb of Delphi when a spirit appears. He brings two statues come to life, who in turn transform to thief's head into that of a donkey.
Georges Melies - The Temptation of St. Anthony - Tentation de Saint Antoine (1898)
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès, Jehanne d'Alcy
The pious St. Anthony is tormented by visions of seductive women.
Georges Melies - The Vanishing Lady - Escamotage d'une dame au theater Robert Houdin (1896)
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
As an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.
In Old Madrid (1911)
Running Time: 11 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Owen Moore
Don Gomez writes a letter to the parents of Zelda, a young Spanish girl, regretting his inability to pay them a visit, but sends his son, Jose, instead. Jose arrives and is immediately smitten by the charms of Zelda. Zelda indulges in a little flirtation. Her mother inaugurates a system of espionage that is very inconvenient for the lovers. They are surprised by the duenna-like mother and are driven to desperation. Zelda has a girlfriend about her age who resembles her and is attired to represent a clever counterpart of Zelda. The mother walks in the garden accompanied by Zelda. Seating herself on a bench, she commands the girl to repose beside her. Finding the vigil rather tiresome, the elder woman lapses into a state of drowsiness, and the companions of Zelda beckon her to join them. So clever is the disguise of Rosa that Jose is deceived and he kisses her. The father of Zelda discovers the act and hastens to the mother to inform her only to see Zelda yawning beside his wife on the bench. Exhausted, the guardian falls asleep, and Rosa exchanges places with Zelda, who joins her lover. Jose induces Zelda to accompany him to the seashore. He gathers the girl in his arms, and wades across a stretch of water, and they take a perilous position on the rocks. A search is instituted and Zelda and Jose are discovered on the rocks. Jose has a scheme which he quickly imparts to Zelda and she acquiesces. The irate parents see the daughter and her lover. Jose is firm and threatens to throw Zelda into the roaring torrent, unless the parents consent to their immediate marriage. The agonized parents relent. The obdurate parents have been outwitted by the scheming lovers.
Trip To The Moon (1902)
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.