Georges Méliès Movies

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.

A group of people take roller skating too far.

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

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.

Lost comedy short film by Georges Méliès.

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

Watering the Flowers (French: L'Arroseur) was an 1896 French short comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by...

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

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

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they...

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

Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor to the King, is thrust into a dungeon because he has offended His Majesty by not being able for some time past to produce...

Another magic short of Méliès.

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.