Georges Méliès Movies

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

A kitchen maid becomes envious of her madam's daughters. After serving them their tea, she goes straight to their boudoir, borrows some fine garments...

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

Beelzebub, making fire on the tips of his fingers, develops a large blaze, from which three girls emerge, who commence a dance in the heart of the...

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...

Before going to war with his neighbors, the King reviews his men. The Queen's Musketeer's, who number only young men, are proclaimed the best drilled...

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.

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...

A man does tricks by forming hats and then putting them on. Fragment available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

The comedy generally known as “The Barber of Sevilla” is strongly recommended because it contains nothing offensive nor objectionable,...

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...

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

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...

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

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

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

The setting of this view is a series of underground grottoes, a part of the marvelous realm of Satan, through which the latter escorts a gentleman...