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| A Trip to the Moon | Director | 1902-04-17 | Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once… |
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| The Impossible Voyage | Director | 1904-10-01 | Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes … |
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| The Kingdom of the Fairies | Director | 1903-09-01 | At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon r… |
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| Pygmalion and Galatea | Director | 1898-01-01 | Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when t… |
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| The Untamable Whiskers | Director | 1904-03-05 | The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side … |
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| The Enchanted Sedan Chair | Director | 1905-01-01 | … |
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| The Mermaid | Director | 1904-01-01 | A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing…. |
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| The Scheming Gambler’s Paradise | Director | 1905-01-01 | A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a mercantil… |
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| The Living Playing Cards | Director | 1905-01-01 | … |
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| The Cook in Trouble | Director | 1904-01-01 | A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen…. |
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| The Black Imp | Director | 1905-01-01 | A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room…. |
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| The Monster | Director | 1903-08-14 | An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx…. |
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| The Infernal Cauldron | Director | 1903-10-17 | A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron…. |
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| The Diabolic Tenant | Director | 1909-01-01 | A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion…. |
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| The Mysterious Retort | Director | 1906-01-01 | A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears…. |
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| The Melomaniac | Director | 1903-08-15 | The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music…. |
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| Bluebeard | Director | 1901-01-01 | A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances…. |
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| The Hilarious Posters | Director | 1906-01-01 | A wall full of advertising posters comes to life…. |
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| The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon | Director | 1907-01-01 | In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unst… |
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| The Man with the Rubber Head | Director | 1901-01-01 | A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head…. |
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| The One-Man Band | Director | 1900-01-01 | A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, … |
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| The Conjurer | Director | 1899-01-01 | A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear…. |
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| The Four Troublesome Heads | Director | 1898-01-01 | One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and … |
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| Good Glue Sticks | Director | 1907-01-01 | A peddler of “the best glue” sets up his outdoor stall. A crowd gathers for a demonstration. As he gives his pitch, two observant cops decide drive of… |
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| Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913) | Director | 2008-03-11 | Georges Méliès was a genuine virtuoso, producing and directing his own films while also devising the narratives; designing the sets, costumes and pr… |
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| The Magician | Director | 1898-01-01 | In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps…. |
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| The Infernal Cakewalk | Director | 1903-06-12 | Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the “cake-walk.” He has brought back with him two noted … |
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| The Oracle of Delphi | Director | 1903-08-14 | A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts … |
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| Playing Cards | Director | 1896-01-01 | Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray… |
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| A Terrible Night | Director | 1896-01-01 | 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…. |
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| The Vanishing Lady | Director | 1896-01-01 | Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear…. |
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| A Nightmare | Director | 1896-12-25 | A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon…. |
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| The Haunted Castle | Director | 1897-01-01 | A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil…. |
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| The Surrender of Tournavos | Director | 1897-01-01 | Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the en… |
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| Between Calais and Dover | Director | 1897-01-01 | A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès…. |
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| The Bewitched Inn | Director | 1897-01-01 | A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night’s sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his room–be… |
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| After the Ball | Director | 1897-01-01 | A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe…. |
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| Divers at Work on the Wreck of the “Maine” | Director | 1898-01-01 | Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiousl… |
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| Panorama from Top of a Moving Train | Director | 1898-01-01 | With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area…. |
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| The Famous Box Trick | Director | 1898-01-01 | A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box…. |
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| Adventures of William Tell | Director | 1898-01-01 | 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 cl… |
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| The Astronomer’s Dream | Director | 1898-01-01 | An astronomer has a terrifying dream…. |
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| The Temptation of St. Anthony | Director | 1898-01-01 | St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!… |
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| The Devil in a Convent | Director | 1899-01-01 | A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into a outlet of… |
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| The Pillar of Fire | Director | 1899-01-01 | A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the p… |
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| The Mysterious Portrait | Director | 1899-01-01 | A magician produces a living portrait of himself…. |
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| Dreyfus Court Martial – Arrest Of Dreyfus | Director | 1899-01-01 | Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the Borde… |
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| Dreyfus Put in Irons | Director | 1899-01-01 | Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell. Tw… |
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| Suicide of Colonel Henry | Director | 1899-01-01 | Shows the interior of the cell of the Prison Militaire du Cherche-Midi, Paris, where Colonel Henry is confined. He is seated at a table writing a lett… |
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| Landing of Dreyfus at Quiberon | Director | 1899-01-01 | A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from Devil’s… |
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| Dreyfus Meets His Wife at Rennes | Director | 1899-01-01 | Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and Demange, with… |
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| The Attempt Against the Life of Maitre Labori | Director | 1899-01-01 | Maître Labori is seen approaching the bridge of Rennes in company with Colonel Picquart and M. Gast, Mayor of Rennes. They notice that they are follo… |
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| The Fight of Reporters | Director | 1899-01-01 | During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur M… |
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| The Court Martial at Rennes | Director | 1899-01-01 | The infamous Dreyfus is finally brought before a court martial…. |
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| The Mysterious Knight | Director | 1899-01-01 | A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing…. |
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| Addition and Subtraction | Director | 1900-01-01 | A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female…. |
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| The Cook’s Revenge | Director | 1900-01-01 | A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor…. |
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| Joan of Arc | Director | 1900-08-06 | A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured…. |
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| The Rajah’s Dream or The Bewitched Wood | Director | 1900-01-01 | The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace…. |
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| The Wizard, the Prince and the Good Fairy | Director | 1900-01-01 | A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard…. |
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| The Magic Book | Director | 1900-01-01 | Characters from a large magic book come to life…. |
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| Up-to-Date Spiritualism | Director | 1900-01-01 | 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 t… |
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| The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head | Director | 1900-01-01 | A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first…. |
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| The Christmas Dream | Director | 1900-08-08 | The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man’s home. His children, assisted by … |
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| The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match | Director | 1900-01-01 | A series of fantastical wrestling matches…. |
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| A Fantastical Meal | Director | 1900-01-01 | A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications…. |
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| Going to Bed Under Difficulties | Director | 1900-01-01 | A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation…. |
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| Eight Girls in a Barrel | Director | 1900-01-01 | A magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel…. |
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| The Doctor and the Monkey | Director | 1900-01-01 | A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor…. |
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| How He Missed His Train | Director | 1900-01-01 | A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes…. |
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| What Is Home Without the Boarder | Director | 1901-01-01 | A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman…. |
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| The Imperceptible Transmutations | Director | 1904-01-01 | 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…. |
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| The Brahmin and the Butterfly | Director | 1901-01-01 | A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly…. |
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| An Extraordinary Dislocation | Director | 1901-01-01 | A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body…. |
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| The Magician’s Cavern | Director | 1901-01-01 | A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks…. |
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| The Bachelor’s Paradise | Director | 1901-01-01 | A sorceress conjures up a bevy of beauties for a bachelor to peruse…. |
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| The Prince of Magicians | Director | 1901-01-01 | A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump…. |
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| Hat of Many Surprises | Director | 1901-01-01 | A magician’s hat offers many surprises…. |
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| The Dwarf and the Giant | Director | 1901-01-01 | A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant…. |
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| The Devil and the Statue | Director | 1901-01-01 | At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade falls… |
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| The Colonel’s Shower Bath | Director | 1902-01-01 | A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!… |
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| The Microscopic Dancer | Director | 1902-01-01 | “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 all the… |
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| The Magician and the Imp | Director | 1902-01-01 | The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth… |
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| The Treasures of Satan | Director | 1902-01-01 | The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan… |
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| The Human Fly | Director | 1902-01-01 | This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment … |
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| An Impossible Balancing Feat | Director | 1902-01-01 | A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act…. |
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| Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants | Director | 1902-01-01 | Georges Méliès’ adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic story. Color… |
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| The Coronation of Edward VII | Director | 1902-08-30 | King Edward VII’s coronation ceremony…. |
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| The Marvellous Wreath | Director | 1903-06-12 | A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath…. |
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| Apparitions | Director | 1903-10-16 | Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits…. |
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| The Enchanted Well | Director | 1903-01-01 | A witch curses a town’s well…. |
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| Extraordinary Illusions | Director | 1903-01-01 | Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act…. |
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| The Indian Sorcerer | Director | 1908-01-19 | 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 ch… |
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| The Wandering Jew | Director | 1904-01-01 | A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel…. |
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| Cinderella | Director | 1899-10-01 | 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… |
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| Post No Bills | Director | 1896-01-01 | … |
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| The Dreyfus Affair | Director | 1899-11-04 | The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer wa… |
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| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Director | 1907-01-01 | The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine … |
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| The Two Blind Men | Director | 1900-01-01 | This film is presumed lost…. |
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| The Inn Where No Man Rests | Director | 1903-01-01 | 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 happ… |
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| Tunneling the English Channel | Director | 1907-06-30 | The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel…. |
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| The Conquest of the Pole | Director | 1912-01-01 | A science fantasy film that deals with an extraordinary race to the north pole by rival parties of balloonists. Based on the novel “The Adventures of … |
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| The Spider and the Butterfly | Director | 1909-01-01 | Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the s… |
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| The Haunted Castle | Director | 1896-12-24 | Le Manoir du diable or The House of the Devil, released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as The Devil’s Castle, is an 1896 Fr… |
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| The Magic Lantern | Director | 1903-01-01 | 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, they… |
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| Robinson Crusoe | Director | 1902-01-01 | Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by… |
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| The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen | Director | 1911-11-01 | After an evening of excessive wining and dining Baron Munchausen must be helped to bed by his servants. Once asleep, he has bizarre and frightening dr… |
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| The Merry Frolics of Satan | Director | 1906-01-01 | Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he takes… |
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| Misfortune Never Comes Alone | Director | 1903-06-12 | The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty –most laughable and comical… |
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| The Misfortunes of an Explorer | Director | 1900-01-01 | … |
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| Whimsical Illusions | Director | 1909-12-01 | In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies play… |
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| Off to Bedlam | Director | 1901-11-11 | Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other…. |
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| The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique | Director | 1902-10-23 | 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… |
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| Faust in the Underworld | Director | 1903-12-12 | The German legend of a scholar’s unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Mél… |
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| Jupiter’s Thunderballs | Director | 1903-11-07 | With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus trie… |
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| The Prolific Magical Egg | Director | 1903-01-31 | A human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his arms… |
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| Ten Ladies in an Umbrella | Director | 1903-11-07 | The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on…. |
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| The Mystical Flame | Director | 1903-07-24 | A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The h… |
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| The Firefall | Director | 1904-05-14 | A magic show…. |
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| A Moonlight Serenade | Director | 1904-04-22 | Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and offe… |
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| The Bewitched Trunk | Director | 1904-03-05 | Bewtiched trunk… |
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| The Palace of the Arabian Nights | Director | 1905-05-29 | A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs o… |
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| An Adventurous Automobile Trip | Director | 1905-08-19 | A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special c… |
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| The Voyage of M. Bourrichon | Director | 1913-05-07 | An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films…. |
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| The Skipping Cheese | Director | 1907-01-01 | 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 genda… |
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| The Knight of the Snow | Director | 1912-05-16 | “The Knight of the Snow” is one of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a fe… |
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| Cinderella or The Glass Slipper | Director | 1912-11-01 | Georges Méliès’s first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance of a narrative… |
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| The Diabolical Church Window | Director | 1910-01-01 | 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 throw… |
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| Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer | Director | 1904-04-29 | 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 … |
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| The Doctor’s Secret | Director | 1910-01-01 | Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him…. |
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| On the Roofs | Director | 1897-05-18 | Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them…. |
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| Naval Combat in Greece | Director | 1897-01-01 | An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the ca… |
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| The Last Cartridges | Director | 1897-05-18 | An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville’s celebrated p… |
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| Summoning the Spirits | Director | 1899-05-20 | 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…… |
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| The Human Pyramid | Director | 1899-05-20 | Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet†in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them on a pyramid-shaped … |
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| The Artist and the Dummy | Director | 1900-05-21 | A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist…. |
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| The Terrible Turkish Executioner | Director | 1904-01-05 | In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eatin… |
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| The Mysterious Box | Director | 1903-01-01 | As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these … |
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| The Witch’s Revenge | Director | 1903-01-01 | Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and … |
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| The Ballet Master’s Dream | Director | 1903-12-09 | 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 … |
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| Alcofribas, The Master Magician | Director | 1903-11-22 | Two men in a cave perform magic…. |
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| Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid | Director | 1903-11-21 | A boy is led into the frame by two nursemaids who give him a big ball to play with. For the remainder of the film heads appear and disappear, stage pr… |
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| Jack Jags and Dum Dum | Director | 1903-11-06 | Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage…. |
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| Comical Conjuring | Director | 1903-12-11 | In a room filled with jugglers’ properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, be… |
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| The Drawing Lesson | Director | 1903-01-01 | In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding … |
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| A Spiritualist Photographer | Director | 1903-08-14 | A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life…. |
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| Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter | Director | 1904-02-13 | Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar…. |
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| The Fugitive Apparitions | Director | 1904-03-04 | A magician makes a woman appear and disappear…. |
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| The Devilish Plank | Director | 1904-05-22 | Melies and his crew perform magic tricks…. |
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| A Miracle Under the Inquisition | Director | 1904-03-26 | An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes…. |
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| The Clockmaker’s Dream | Director | 1904-03-12 | A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping … |
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| Tit for Tat | Director | 1904-02-05 | 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 … |
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| The Christmas Angel | Director | 1904-01-01 | A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there’s no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father s… |
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| Faust and Marguerite | Director | 1904-04-01 | 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 tortu… |
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| Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus | Director | 1905-01-01 | An early horror treatment of the hero’s encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops…. |
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| An Improvised Fireworks Display | Director | 1905-05-23 | On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum…. |
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| A Crazy Composer | Director | 1905-05-23 | A silly-looking composer attempts to compose. He then falls asleep, and dreams of all manner of bizarre nonsense…. |
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| Rip’s Dream | Director | 1905-11-23 | The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale…. |
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| Punch and Judy | Director | 1906-05-23 | A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film…. |
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| The Wonderful Living Fan | Director | 1904-01-01 | 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 the… |
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| Long Distance Wireless Photography | Director | 1908-03-31 | Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a dem… |
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| Living Soap Bubbles | Director | 1906-05-23 | Melies the magician does tricks…. |
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| A Roadside Inn | Director | 1906-05-23 | The staff of an inn play a cruel trick on a guest…. |
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| A Mix-Up in the Gallery | Director | 1906-05-23 | A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos…. |
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| The Witch | Director | 1906-12-20 | A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch’s revenge, and sav… |
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| The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship | Director | 1905-01-01 | An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight…. |
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| The Tramp and the Mattress Makers | Director | 1906-05-23 | A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress…. |
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| A Desperate Crime | Director | 1906-01-01 | A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost…. |
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| Jack the Chimney Sweep | Director | 1906-05-23 | Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the court…. |
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| The Luny Musician | Director | 1906-01-01 | A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance…. |
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| Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil | Director | 1907-05-23 | This film from 1907 is sadly incomplete as it’s only available in a two-minute fragment. The opening title card explains that a painter has just finis… |
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| Sightseeing Through Whisky | Director | 1907-11-01 | John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site… |
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| Rogues’ Tricks | Director | 1907-05-23 | Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar’s breaking into a man’s home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a tr… |
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| Satan in Prison | Director | 1907-11-01 | The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room, culminat… |
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| How Bridget’s Lover Escaped | Director | 1907-05-23 | Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine’s boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his unsuspecting… |
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| Robert Macaire and Bertrand | Director | 1907-01-23 | Robert Macaire (Chevalier Macaire) was a noted criminal and assassin who appears in French plays. His name is renowned in French culture as that of th… |
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| Buncoed Stage Johnnie | Director | 1908-05-23 | 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 missi… |
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| The Prophetess of Thebes | Director | 1907-12-02 | Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly r… |
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| A Tricky Painter’s Fate | Director | 1908-09-21 | A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers…. |
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| The King and the Jester | Director | 1908-01-24 | French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo’s play Le roi s’amuse (and Verdi’s opera Rigoletto)…. |
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| Not Guilty | Director | 1908-05-23 | Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man…. |
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| The Knight of Black Art | Director | 1908-01-17 | Magic tricks in a medieval setting…. |
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| The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess | Director | 1908-05-23 | A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution…. |
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| The Dream of an Opium Fiend | Director | 1908-01-01 | The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks fo… |
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| The Good Luck of a ‘Souse’ | Director | 1908-02-08 | This film from George Melies is sadly one that’s only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just … |
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| The Mischance of a Photographer | Director | 1908-05-23 | A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge…. |
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| The New Lord of the Village | Director | 1908-05-23 | 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 there… |
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| The Miser | Director | 1908-05-23 | This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser ke… |
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| French Cops Learning English | Director | 1908-01-01 | The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English…. |
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| Justinian’s Human Torches | Director | 1908-01-15 | During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive…. |
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| The Broken Violin | Director | 1908-05-23 | If a violin was actually broken here we don’t get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment. Hop… |
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| The Genii of Fire | Director | 1908-05-24 | Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they’re saved…. |
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| Grandmother’s Tale and Child’s Dream | Director | 1908-05-24 | The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking him or her into bed (it’s a bit difficult to tell which the tot is)… |
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| Why That Actor Was Late | Director | 1908-05-24 | An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way…. |
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| The Woes of Roller Skaters | Director | 1908-05-24 | A group of people take roller skating too far…. |
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| In the Barber Shop | Director | 1908-04-30 | One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers…. |
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| In the Bogie Man’s Cave | Director | 1908-01-01 | The Bogie Man’s cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is the grisly tur… |
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| His First Job | Director | 1908-05-24 | Georges Melies’ film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn’t fit in as he makes one mistake after another…. |
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| Sideshow Wrestlers | Director | 1908-05-24 | A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler…. |
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| Pharmaceutical Hallucinations | Director | 1908-01-01 | There’s a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug — apparently — and have a seriously bad trip. Then there’s this wizard in … |
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| A Mesmerian Experiment | Director | 1905-01-01 | A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air…. |
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| The Lilliputian Minuet | Director | 1905-12-10 | Another short of Georges…. |
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| The Magic Dice | Director | 1905-11-11 | Another magic short of Méliès…. |
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| The Damnation of Faust | Director | 1903-04-01 | A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it has little to d… |
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| The Hallucinated Alchemist | Director | 1897-05-31 | The Flicker Alley DVD “Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)” misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film “Alchimiste P… |
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| Cleopatra’s Tomb | Director | 1899-01-01 | A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it…. |
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| Fantastic Dining Room | Director | 1899-01-01 | Showing the interior of a dining room of a modest cottage, whereto enter a young couple to partake in their meal, which is being served up by the maid… |
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| Mishaps of the New York-Paris Auto Race | Director | 1908-07-31 | … |
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| Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station | Director | 1896-01-01 | A train arriving at Vincennes station…. |
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| L’homme aux cent trucs | Director | 1901-01-01 | Short film about a magician…. |
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| Une indigestion | Director | 1903-02-01 | In this film, we show the interior of a doctor’s office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The docto… |
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| The Triple Headed Lady | Director | 1901-05-01 | A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads…. |
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| The Devil’s Laboratory | Director | 1897-01-01 | “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 disappea… |
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| Lightning Change Artist | Director | 1899-01-01 | A man makes twenty complete changes in two minutes, combining with them dances. The changes are made in full sight of the audience. Biondi, Fregoli an… |
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| Humanity Through the Ages | Director | 1908-01-01 | An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind’s brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907…. |
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| The Catastrophe of the Balloon “Le Pax” | Director | 1902-01-01 | A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris…. |
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| Cabinet Trick of the Davenport Brothers | Director | 1903-01-01 | A prestidigitator orders his assistant to bring a cabinet, which is displayed piece by piece to the audience. Two gentlemen are then introduced; they … |
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| Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Director | 1907-11-01 | An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy…. |
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| Faust and Marguerite | Director | 1897-01-01 | Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite…. |
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| A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself | Director | 1904-02-13 | … |
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| Extravagant Struggles | Director | 1899-11-22 | 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…. |
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| Little Red Riding Hood | Director | 1901-10-25 | In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds. The… |
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| Devil’s Island – Within the Palisade | Director | 1899-05-23 | A reenactment of a scene inside Devil’s Island prison…. |
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| The Wonderful Rose Tree | Director | 1904-01-02 | The Brahmin, Iftikar, who enjoys a great reputation in India, has determined to create something miraculous which will place the seal upon his renown…. |
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| Christ Walking on Water | Director | 1899-01-01 | Showing the rolling sea, upon which gradually appears a cloud of mist. From this evolves the figure of Christ, who proceeds to walk on the waves. The … |
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| Murder Will Out | Director | 1899-01-02 | Melies short…. |
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| The Clown and Automobile | Director | 1899-01-01 | The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke… |
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| Le conférencier distrait | Director | 1899-01-01 | A short French fantasy film…. |
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| Arrival of a Train (Joinville Station) | Director | 1896-01-01 | One of a few versions of the “arrival of the train” narrative. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flip… |
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| The Bridegroom’s Dilemma | Director | 1898-01-01 | A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook p… |
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| A Woman Surprised | Director | 1898-01-01 | A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around… |
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| An Irritable Model | Director | 1897-01-01 | An artist attempts to touch his model who is playing Venus. Later remade in 1900. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-c… |
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| Boxing Match | Director | 1897-01-01 | A kickboxing movie. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the … |
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| Fencing at the Joinville School | Director | 1897-01-01 | A fencing match. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the sam… |
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| A Serpentine Dance | Director | 1896-01-01 | A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version … |
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| The Cave of the Demons | Director | 1898-12-31 | A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances…. |
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| The Grasshopper and the Ant | Director | 1897-01-01 | A lost film directed by Georges Melies… |
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| Benvenuto Cellini or A Curious Evasion | Director | 1904-01-01 | … |
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| The Flying Woman | Director | 1902-01-01 | … |
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| A Terrible Night (Remake) | Director | 1897-01-01 | … |
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| Les miracles du Brahmine | Director | 1900-01-01 | … |
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| The Misadventures of Mr. Boit-Sans-Soif | Director | 1904-01-01 | … |
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| L’agent gelé | Director | 1908-01-01 | … |
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| L’Illusionniste fin de siècle – Remake | Director | 1900-01-01 | … |
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| Watering the Flowers | Director | 1896-01-01 | Watering the Flowers (French: L’Arroseur) was an 1896 French short comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès’s company Sta… |
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| Carrefour de l’opéra | Director | 1898-01-01 | Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture…. |
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| Conjuring | Director | 1896-06-15 | The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring is notable as Méliès’s… |
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| Les tribulations d’un concierge | Director | 1896-01-01 | Georges Méliès lost film…. |
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| Miss de Vère – English Jig | Director | 1896-01-01 | A woman dances – preserved in flipbook form…. |
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| Conjurer Making Ten Hats in Sixty Seconds | Director | 1896-01-01 | A man does tricks by forming hats and then putting them on. Fragment available in flipbook format, otherwise lost…. |
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| D. Devant, Conjurer | Director | 1897-01-01 | A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only…. |
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| A Soldier’s Unlucky Salutation | Director | 1896-01-01 | A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man falls… |
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| Crying and Laughing | Director | 1900-01-01 | A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès…. |
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| The Degradation of Dreyfus | Director | 1899-09-01 | The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus’s degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is comp… |
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| Dreyfus Leaving the Lycée for Jail | Director | 1899-09-01 | One of eleven installments of The Dreyfus Affair (L’affaire Dreyfus), a docudrama reconstructing the historical Dreyfus Affair, which was still playin… |
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| Tribulations; or, The Misfortunes of a Cobbler | Director | 1908-07-02 | The Merchant, the Farrier, and the Roman accompany a mysterious woman into a magical cave full of terrors and wonders…. |
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| Guerre de Cuba et l’explosion du Maine à La Havane | Director | 1898-04-01 | Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès’ granddaughter and she confirmed … |
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| A Midnight Episode | Director | 1899-01-01 | A sleeping apartment of a friend who retires for the night. The rays of the moon are shining upon the bed through the window. He is suddenly awakened … |
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