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76 films in this collection
Collection no. #14332 minGeorges Méliès
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A magician dresses and transforms a mannequin, shifting between an inert figure and the appearance of life. The short presents the tricks directly as…
Collection no. #14341 minGeorges Méliès
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An artist positions a mannequin as a model for his painting. A visitor secretly takes its place, strikes him with a broom and returns the dummy…
Collection no. #14363 minGeorges Méliès
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Odysseus enters a fantastic island world where Calypso's setting meets the threat of the giant Polyphemus. Mythological adventure becomes a compact…
Collection no. #14383 minGeorges Méliès
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A magician transforms costumes into people and uses a sedan chair to exchange their places. The illusion expands until assistants, carriers and…
Collection no. #14402 minGeorges Méliès
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A prankster creates a living statue where a painter is about to give a lesson. When the students arrive, their apparently ideal subject begins moving…
Collection no. #14423 minGeorges Méliès
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A figure presented as Doctor Mesmer presides over a theatrical display of dancers and effects. The performance gives more space to the troupe's…
Collection no. #14433 minGeorges Méliès
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Jupiter tries to summon the Muses, but his thunderbolts first need repairs. Once the arts begin competing for attention, he discovers that…
Collection no. #14443 minGeorges Méliès
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Figures in advertising posters come alive when the street is clear. Their flirtations and quarrels spill out of the billboard, until passing…
Collection no. #14452 minGeorges Méliès
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A magician enlarges playing cards and places them on a screen. Their royal figures step out into the room, and one of the apparent characters turns…
Collection no. #14461 minGeorges Méliès
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A magician produces a dancing boy from an empty paper cylinder. Disappearance and reappearance lead to further transformations, frustrating the…
Collection no. #14502 minGeorges Méliès
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Two music-hall clowns compete for control of the same stage. A mannequin that becomes a dancer offers one performer a spectacular trick, but his…
Collection no. #14784 minGeorges Méliès
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A magician presents oversized playing cards and a troublesome head that emerges from a crate. The demonstration turns into a chase when an object…
Collection no. #14795 minGeorges Méliès
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A man's opium dream sends a glass of beer toward the Moon and brings a moon goddess into his room. His attempts to drink and embrace her repeatedly…
Collection no. #15004 minGeorges Méliès
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Two intruders hide inside a wealthy man's house and move from a closet to the bathroom. Discovering them in his covered bathtub, the owner begins a…
Collection no. #15011 minGeorges Méliès
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A magician places his own head in a glass box and gives his body a replacement. Amused by tormenting the trapped head, he fails to anticipate what…
Collection no. #159117 minGeorges Méliès
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Prince Bel-Azor's fairy-tale adventure unfolds among enchanted palaces, fantastic creatures and underwater wonders. Georges Méliès creates a world of…
Collection no. #16070 minGeorges Méliès
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A doctor's captive monkey escapes and disrupts both floors of the house. Even its detached tail joins the mayhem, leaving the doctor and housekeeper…
Collection no. #16080 minGeorges Méliès
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A conjuror and a dancer perform a rapid chain of appearances, disappearances and transformations. Bodies and costumes change as the stage act becomes…