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The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then...

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

A kickboxing movie. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

Another magic short of Méliès.

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

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer...

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

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

A film, very amusing, showing a countryman with a most tempting dinner before him, which he is unable to touch. The table, the dishes and the chairs...

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.