Georges Méliès Movies

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

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...

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

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...

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

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...

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

A magician's hat offers many surprises.

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

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

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the...

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the...

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.