Directors
102 films in this collection
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. #14767 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Encouraged by a friend, a man challenges professional wrestlers at a fair. The bouts become increasingly exaggerated, until his encounter with a much…
Collection no. #14774 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A young couple ignores a warning and enters a ruined temple. Priests trap them inside while a spirit fills the space with fire, leaving them to seek…
Collection no. #14784 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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. #16100 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces women from a row of chairs, combines them into one figure and changes that figure again. His arithmetic operates on bodies,…