Directors
102 films in this collection
Collection no. #13843 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Méliès appears as a magician in a spectacle of transformations, fire and flowing water. Human figures and an enlarged head become elements in an…
Collection no. #13853 minGeorges Méliès
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A musketeer becomes the centre of a display in which a circular opening frames an enlarged face. Magical appearances and transformations turn the…
Collection no. #13872 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An inventor celebrates his design for a new airship, then falls asleep beneath the plans. His dream sends the craft into a fantastic sky, where…
Collection no. #13893 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A fan maker presents an impossible creation whose decoration becomes a group of living women. The expanding display combines human figures and…
Collection no. #13902 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A traveller tries to read at an inn, but his candle begins moving and growing beyond control. An attractive apparition emerges from the resulting…
Collection no. #13912 minGeorges Méliès
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An artist draws a succession of faces and transforms himself to match them. Wigs, whiskers and costumes create a rapid sequence of characters before…
Collection no. #13923 minGeorges Méliès
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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
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A magician blows bubbles that become floating faces and then women with butterfly wings. After making the tableau disappear, he joins 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
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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. #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
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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. #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…