Movies

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

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...

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

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...

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...

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

A witch curses a town's well.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

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...

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...

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

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...

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris.