Georges Méliès Movies

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...

Upon a visit to UVM's Lane Series in the Spring of 2022, Jean-Francois Alcolea offered to conduct a workshop to UVM film students and others on his...

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

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...

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...

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.

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,...

A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist.

French silent short film by Georges Méliès, presumed to be lost.

Lucifers fall from grace

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville...

Comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate...

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...

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

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

A witch curses a town's well.

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...