Genres
147 films in this collection
Collection no. #7563 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A bat enters a castle and transforms into a devil who conjures an assistant, a woman and a series of apparitions. Two visitors find themselves…
Collection no. #7915 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Cinderella's household duties give way to a magical transformation that allows her to attend the ball. Splendid clothing and an extraordinary…
Collection no. #8011 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician places a chair on a newspaper to show that no trapdoor can be concealed beneath it. His assistant sits down and disappears when he removes…
Collection no. #9851 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A sleeping man's bedroom fills with unsettling visitors who change form before his eyes. A girl, comic stage figures and a threatening Man in the…
Collection no. #9981 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician removes his head, sets it on a table and immediately grows another. Soon several copies of his head are performing alongside him, turning…
Collection no. #9993 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An astronomer's study becomes a place of unruly fantasy when the Moon approaches close enough to swallow his telescope. Clowns, celestial figures and…
Collection no. #10212 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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. #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. #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. #11401 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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. #12871 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Medieval imagery becomes the setting for a comic display of impossible transformations, including a living head in a vase. Méliès treats the knightly…
Collection no. #14091 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A conjurer performs an illusion that sends members of his audience onto the ceiling. The familiar relationship between bodies, gravity and the room…
Collection no. #16020 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician sets up an empty picture frame and conjures his own portrait inside it. The image comes to life, allowing performer and likeness to meet…
Collection no. #16080 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A conjuror and a dancer perform a rapid chain of appearances, disappearances and transformations. Bodies and costumes change as the stage act becomes…