Georges Méliès Movies

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment...

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father...

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

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 wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

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...

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and...

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.