Georges Méliès Movies

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

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...

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

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

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

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open...

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

The interior of a trolley car. A menagerie of passengers notices a foul odour, and pinpoint the source of the stench at a cheese saleswoman. The...

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

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

Two men in a cave perform magic.

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

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.