Georges Méliès Movies

The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

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...

An impoverished father, with his young son and daughter, begs for food in a marketplace. When a merchant angrily turns them away, their plight...

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is...

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...

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

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...

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

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...

A derelict discovers that a surgeon performing unnatural experiments has replaced his body.

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...

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

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...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!