Georges Méliès Movies

A human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his...

The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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

Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and...

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special...

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

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...

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 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 plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

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

Georges Méliès's first attempt at Cinderella was in 1899. That film was extraordinary then for having multiple scenes and a semblance...