Georges Méliès Movies

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

Inspired by The X-Rays (1987), is currently presumed lost.

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...

Short comedy about a man who dreams that he runs over everyone with his skates. A man falls asleep on the sidewalk and dreams that he gets into...

A magic show.

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...

In a wizard's cavern, a series of magic tricks are performed..

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

Shows a drunkard in a road man's cell, raving. He sleeps and dreams that he has a huge flask before him; this he attempts to grasp, but awakens,...

Silent French short film by Georges Méliès, based on the character from Alphonse Daudet's novel of the same name. The film is presumed...

A street scene.

A man makes twenty complete changes in two minutes, combining with them dances. The changes are made in full sight of the audience. Biondi, Fregoli...

1908 French short silent Christmas film by Georges Méliès, which is now presumed lost. The film, combining American ideas about Santa...

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is...

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...

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

A Spanish dancer, in front of an inn in the Spanish mountains, is courted by a smuggler, who asks her to marry him. She agrees. Later, in the...