Genres
147 films in this collection
Collection no. #13806 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Faust and Mephistopheles advance through an infernal world of demons and changing scenery. Their journey unfolds as a succession of theatrical…
Collection no. #13832 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician transforms a skeleton into a woman, then reverses the illusion as his surroundings begin to move. Levitating furniture and multiplying…
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician blows bubbles that become floating faces and then women with butterfly wings. After making the tableau disappear, he joins the…
Collection no. #139611 minCharles Kent
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Young lovers flee into a wood where fairies interfere with human affections. A magical herb directs desire toward the wrong people, while a troupe…
Collection no. #14016 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Astronomers travel to the Moon, encounter its inhabitants and return with an unexpected companion. Their capsule lands in the Moon's mouth,…
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. #14227 minWallace McCutcheon
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After overeating, a man staggers home and falls into a nightmare. Furniture moves, tiny figures torment him and his bed flies above the city, leaving…
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…