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167 films in this collection
Collection no. #13923 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A king orders an elderly sorcerer to be tortured. The prisoner tries to win mercy with a magical performance, but when the monarch remains unmoved,…
Collection no. #13933 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Méliès performs as a conjurer in a brisk series of magical transformations. The camera's cuts and dissolves make the performance move beyond the…
Collection no. #13943 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician blows bubbles that become floating faces and then women with butterfly wings. After making the tableau disappear, he joins the…
Collection no. #14001 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Views of Barcelona's parks form a brief portrait of urban leisure spaces. Chomón turns the camera toward an actual city landscape rather than the…
Collection no. #14016 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Astronomers travel to the Moon, encounter its inhabitants and return with an unexpected companion. Their capsule lands in the Moon's mouth,…
Collection no. #14135 minLucien Nonguet
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William Tell defies a governor's authority and must shoot an apple from his son's head. The ordeal becomes part of a broader struggle in which the…
Collection no. #14167 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
French policemen attend an English lesson where misunderstood phrases give way to enthusiastic flirtation. A senior officer arrives to restore order,…
Collection no. #14175 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician constructs a giant tambourine and draws a face that supplies bottles and clothing. The instrument becomes a doorway for levitation and…
Collection no. #14186 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A display of roller skating sets off a chain of imitation and mishaps. The police become part of the joke when objects they confiscate offer…
Collection no. #14332 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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. #14351 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A dancer appears to escape the ordinary limits of gravity. The performance becomes an illusion in which the body's relationship to the surrounding…
Collection no. #14363 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Odysseus enters a fantastic island world where Calypso's setting meets the threat of the giant Polyphemus. Mythological adventure becomes a compact…
Collection no. #14372 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician places an impossibly shallow box across two chairs and invites a woman inside. The demonstration becomes stranger as more people enter a…
Collection no. #14383 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Jupiter tries to summon the Muses, but his thunderbolts first need repairs. Once the arts begin competing for attention, he discovers that…