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167 films in this collection
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…
Collection no. #14443 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces a dancing boy from an empty paper cylinder. Disappearance and reappearance lead to further transformations, frustrating the…
Collection no. #14482 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Wrestlers transform, flatten and dismantle one another without lasting injury. Bodies that should be broken repeatedly reassemble, turning a physical…
Collection no. #14502 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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. #14512 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Young pranksters surround a sleeping drunk with fireworks taken from a shop. He wakes into an eruption of smoke and noise, unable to understand the…
Collection no. #14623 minLucien Nonguet
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A dispute over food aboard the battleship Potemkin becomes a mutiny after a sailor is killed. Public mourning in Odessa is followed by bombardment…