Movies

A magic show.

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...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

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 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...

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

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

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...

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...

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...

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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...

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...

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is...

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

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.