Georges Méliès Movies

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

One of eleven installments of The Dreyfus Affair (L'affaire Dreyfus), a docudrama reconstructing the historical Dreyfus Affair, which was still...

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts...

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville...

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man...

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies...

Melies short.

The infamous Dreyfus is finally brought before a court martial.

A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate...

Short film about a magician.

A very simple gag film as a young lady substitutes herself for a dummy in order to play a practical joke on an artist.

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.