Georges Méliès Movies

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

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès' granddaughter and...

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...

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.

"This view represents a grand transformation scene of several tableaux, the more interesting and the more surprising in the order of their...

An artist attempts to touch his model who is playing Venus. Later remade in 1900. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on...

By designs of St. Hubert, patron saint of the hunt, a humble woodcutter is brought to a sumptuous palace and offered riches, which he despises.

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book. The given date is approximate

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...

A performing magician divides into two people. The doubles then take turns doing tricks before merging back into one man.

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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...

1908 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

Two men in a cave perform magic.

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.