Directors
102 films in this collection
Collection no. #10022 minGeorges Méliès
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An experimenter places a living copy of his own head on a laboratory table and inflates it with a pair of bellows. The demonstration works until his…
Collection no. #10212 minGeorges Méliès
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A traveler enters an inn hoping to settle down for the night, but every object seems determined to resist him. Luggage vanishes, boots move by…
Collection no. #10481 minGeorges Méliès
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A clown prepares a William Tell mannequin for target practice, setting fruit on its head. Before he can take aim, the supposed prop comes alive and…
Collection no. #10491 minGeorges Méliès
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A performer steps onto an empty stage and multiplies himself into an entire band. Each copy occupies a chair and plays an instrument while another…
Collection no. #105610 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A car maker promises to take the visiting Belgian king from Paris to Monte Carlo in only two hours. The journey tears through towns and mountains,…
Collection no. #10692 minGeorges Méliès
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An Egyptian prince asks a priest to bring his dead wife back to life. The ritual animates a skeleton, which acquires a shroud and begins an…
Collection no. #10711 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Saint Anthony's prayers are interrupted by visions that make the objects in his cave unstable. Women appear where devotional images and a skull had…
Collection no. #10741 minGeorges Méliès
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A wall marked with a prohibition on posting bills attracts two competing billposters. Each tries to cover the other's work, and the dispute escalates…
Collection no. #108810 minGeorges Méliès
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After an extravagant dinner, Baron Munchausen falls asleep beneath a large mirror. Dancers turn into monsters, his bed wanders through strange…
Collection no. #10981 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces a box from which a hungry Pierrot emerges. A meal appears and vanishes before he can eat, and another transformation makes him a…
Collection no. #11053 minGeorges Méliès
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Actors recreate the procession, oath, anointing and crowning of Edward VII, followed by the assembled court's homage. The abbreviated ceremony is…
Collection no. #11069 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An astronomy professor takes his students to observe an eclipse, only to discover a sky governed by desire rather than sober science. The Sun and…
Collection no. #112423 minGeorges Méliès
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Cinderella's mistreatment by her stepsisters gives way to magical assistance and a transformed appearance. The glass slipper eventually becomes the…
Collection no. #11401 minGeorges Méliès
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A devil kindles a fire, and a woman rises from a giant pan in flowing white robes. Her dance makes the fabric resemble moving flames before she…
Collection no. #11441 minGeorges Méliès
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A stage magician produces a boy from a box, divides him into two and then struggles with the results. Bodies become paper, flags and empty space as…
Collection no. #117321 minGeorges Méliès
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An inventor accepts magical pills that promise to make a rapid journey around the world possible. He signs the contract without reading it and…
Collection no. #118315 minGeorges Méliès
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A rejected baron sells his soul to arrange the abduction of Princess Azurine. Her betrothed, the Knight of the Snows, seeks supernatural assistance…
Collection no. #11884 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Gulliver encounters worlds in which his own size becomes extraordinary. Among tiny people he towers over his surroundings; among giants the…