Georges Melies: First Wizard of Cinema Film List
This is a list of the films included on Flicker Alley's "Georges Melies: First Wizard of Cinema" set (also includes the documentary at the beginning of Disc 1).
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- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsJehanne d'AlcyAndré MélièsMarie-Georges MélièsA biography of the pioneer film director Georges Méliès, featuring his son André playing Georges, and with shots of his second wife, aged 90.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Documentary.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsOctavie HuvierGaston MélièsGeorges MélièsIn what is considered to be the first remake in the history of cinema, the grand French director, Georges Méliès, directs his very first short film, influenced by the Lumière Brothers' original story in "Partie d'écarté (1896)".Included on Disc 1. Genre: Actuality.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Comedy
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsAs an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsIn this fantastic scene, a man who is eager to retire has a difficult time finding peace, as his nocturnal illusions come to life out of thin air.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA man dressed in red is ushered into an antechamber in a Castle and offered a seat. When he tried to sit down the chair moves to the other side of the room causing the man to fall on the floor. Standing up he strides to the chair but on trying to lift it a Spector materializes in the chair, arises and challenges the man. The man pulls out his sword and lunges at the Spector but it changes into a skeleton. Seeing the change the man tried to grab the skeleton but it changes into an armor clad guard. The man attempts to move the guard but a devil appears and waves the man away. The man recoils from the devil and tries to leave but the Spector reappears. Both it and the devil frighten the man from the antechamber.Included on Disc 1 (Color). Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsIn one of his numerous reconstructed newsreels, the indefatigable French director, Georges Méliès, reenacts a fictional scene taking place in a fort at Tyrnavos during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.Included on Disc 1.Genre: Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJoseph GrapinetGeorges MélièsGeorgette MélièsUsing the same rocking effect previously employed in "Combat naval en Grèce (1897)", the director Georges Méliès recreates the illusion of a small ship in a tempest.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAt a solitary cheap inn, a distant traveller overcome with fatigue has a close encounter with the supernatural.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJeanne BradyJehanne d'AlcyThe first film to ever show a nudity scene on screen is a simple presentation of a servant preparing a bath for another woman.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Erotic Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThe battleship Maine is blown up in Havana harbor during the Spanish-American War.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Actuality.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsWith the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Documentary.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsIn a traditional "magician" attire, the wizard of illusion and jump cuts, Georges Méliès, says the magic words and conjures up wonders from a plain wooden box.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsFrom the depths of a plain wooden box, a skilful conjurer materializes a lively boy in a clown suit. Next, he takes a heavy battle-axe. What are his intentions?Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsAtop a wonderful central pedestal, a happy clown puts the finishing touches on a William Tell's incomplete model, assembling the mannequin limb by limb with the intention of shooting a target off of its head with a potent crossbow.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsAn astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsMuch to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsThe pious St. Anthony is tormented by visions of seductive women.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA magician and his assistant perform numerous magic acts.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsSatan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsA devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.Included on Disc 1 (Color). Genre: Trick Film/Dance.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsDramatized re-enactments of the events of the Dreyfus-affair from 1894 to 1899.Included on Disc 1 (series of nine short films). Genre: Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsMlle BarralBleuette BernonCarmelliA fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?Included on Disc 1 (Small Portion Colored). Genre: Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe conjurer appears at a blackboard and shows the head of a knight on it. He seizes the picture of the head, removes it from the blackboard, and it turns into life and bows and smiles apparently with a body being attached to it. The conjurer then seizes a sword and runs it completely through the head, entering at the neck and going right through the top of the skull. He then takes the head and places it upon a camera, which is mounted upon a tripod; then throwing a cloak around the legs of the tripod, the young lady to whom the head belongs appears instantly the cloak is removed, with head properly attached to her body. The conjurer then runs toward a door which stands in the middle of the wall, and making a jump in the air, vanishes into space.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsJeanne MareylaA man attempts to sit on a stool, only to find a woman has magically appear to steal his place. This happens again and again. Soon, more amazing transformations occur.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsTo escape the manager's wrath, a naughty cook who caused a small disaster with his amorous advances to a delicious waitress, hides in a wooden cupboard and suffers an immediate and unforeseen punishment. But, is this truly the end?Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.Included on Disc 1 (Fragment). Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA band-leader assembles an orchestra by mystifying means.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsBleuette BernonJeanne CalvièreJehanne d'AlcyA divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.Included on Disc 1 (Color, with narration). Genre: Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThe picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace. An odd-looking tree appears in the foreground and turns into a hobgoblin, which shakes its arms at the Sultan. The Sultan seizes his sword and stabs at the feirce looking object, when it turns into Mephistopheles, who seizes the Sultan and places him on a scaffold, and just as they are about to dispatch him, the dream ends; and he finds himself once more on his comfortable couch. Very marvelous mystical changes from start to finish.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA prince visits a wizard, and asks him to conjure up a fiancee to be his wife. But the wizard plays several tricks on the prince, who is infuriated, when the wizard's magic then turns him into a poor minstrel. This makes the prince sob with grief. Suddenly, the good fairy makes an appearance, gives the prince his fiancee, and cages the wizard, so the prince can then marry.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsWhen this picture opens, you see a large book mounted on an easel. An old student is seen poring over old manuscripts when he advances toward the book, and by the aid of some mysterious power he causes an old man, a clown and a pretty girl to emerge therefrom, turning the page each time and taking a different person from the page in view. Each tries to make love to the maiden, when they are immediately returned to the place from whence they came. Marvelously mystical.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsFalling into the same perplexing predicament that doomed the hapless travellers in Going to Bed with Difficulties (1900), and The Bewitched Inn (1897), an unsuspecting man is harassed by an annoying poltergeist. Can he outsmart it?Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA man comes onto the stage through the fireplace, divides himself, and sits on stools on either side of a table. He places a woman's head on the table and a hat on her head. She speaks to both men, turning her head as she talks. One man crawls under the table to demonstrate that no body is hidden there. The second conjurer produces the rest of her and both men seek her affections. A Mephistophelian figure enters and dispatches the woman in to thin air. The first two conjurers leave, and the devil removes his disguise, bows, and exits.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe 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 their governess, are about to retire. Before lying down they hang up their stockings on the edge of the bed. The picture changes and night appears. We see the housetops of the town and angels are flying about depositing packages in each of the chimneys. Santa Claus is also busy and furnishes our little friends with numerous presents. Again a change in the picture and we see the corridor of the old village church. The sexton, an old grey haired man, stands by, while a number of lusty boys pull the rope attached to the great bell in the belfry. The bell tolling in the steeple bursts into view, after which the interior of the church is seen with the full choir accompanied by the organist and choir boys singing the Christmas hymn. Another change and the boudoir is again before us and the children are looking over their presents while their parents are receiving the congratulations of their friends who have come to visit them. The picture changes into that of the great dining hall with the guests sitting around the table and the beggar is brought in and given a place at the table. The conclusion of this beautiful subject is a pretty tableau. We cannot speak too highly of the dissolving effects of this film. One picture dissolves into the other and thus the story is continuous from beginning to the end. Artistically beautiful.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Fantasy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsRight in front of our very eyes, two attractive and feminine women metamorphose into two professional wrestlers who begin a no-holds-barred wrestling match.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA man and two women sit down to eat dinner, but several unexpected surprises prevent them from their repast: the legs of the table grow, the table disappears into the floor, and a ghostly spirit appears and takes possession of the man.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAs if by magic, a weary traveller trying to undress, is foiled by his mutinous clothes as they teleport and multiply before his eyes, refusing to stay on the clothing rack.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsDainaid demonstrates that he can fit 8 women into a magic barrel.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA doctor's monkey escapes from its cage, and causes mayhem about the office.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA man wishing to catch a train, and having left himself none too much time to do so, rises from his couch and proceeds to don his garments. These, however, change in a most fearful manner, trousers becoming a coat, a coat a waistcoat, etc., etc. After a manful struggle he comes to the conclusion that his clothes are one too many for him, and goes back to bed again, to think the matter over.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis picture shows the ground floor and also the first floor front of a modern lodging house. In the lower room the landlord and his lady are having dinner, while above them four young men lodgers are competing as to who can make the most noise. Tiring of this amusement, they bore through the floor and let down an enormous spider, which upsets the dinner party. One of the lodgers falls through the ceiling and upsets the place and drives the landlady into hysterics by very cleverly simulating an elephant by means of a tablecloth and two broomsticks. Finally a policeman appears on the scene, but getting under the hole in the ceiling, is completely overwhelmed with furniture.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA Brahmin comes upon a giant caterpillar, which turns into a cross between a butterfly and a girl: the Brahmin finally turns into a caterpillar.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsAndré DeedThe funniest of all mystical pictures yet produced. Several body parts of a dancing clown float away from his body and come back again.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsIn a mysterious cavern, a magician performs a magic show that includes a dancing skeleton and a woman who is levitated.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsA bachelor meets with a magician to conjure the perfect mate.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsIn this trickery extravaganza, Excelsior, the wizard of illusion, pulls out a handkerchief from his pocket, and after that, everything is possible in his rare and spectacular show.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsJehanne d'AlcyBleuette BernonA young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe picture opens showing a gentleman in full evening dress costume. Removing his opera hat and cloak, he leaves the hat on the table and by a few passes causes it to assume immense proportions. Prior to increasing the size of the hat, he takes from it a table cloth, napkins, knives and forks, and a few dishes. Then the hat is increased in size and he takes therefrom several chairs, after which the guests are produced from the same hat, consisting of two men and two women. They seat themselves at the table and proceed to eat of the good things provided, when the conjurer jumps backward on the table, and in the excitement everything disappears, leaving him as he was before with the original high hat. The scene is so funny that the pictures on the wall assume life and appear to enjoy the situation to such an extent that they almost fall down. After everything is righted the magician bows himself out of the picture.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA magnificent Venetian oratory. On the left a large bay window through which may be seen the Grand Canal of the city of Venice. In the centre a colonnade and a hemicycle; to the right is a statue of the Madonna. At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade falls to pieces, disclosing the devil. Juliet, frightened, runs to the window and calls Romeo. The latter attempts to enter and protect his fiancée, but at a gesture from the devil the window is instantly covered with a grating and Romeo makes frantic efforts to break it. The devil begins to dance a wild dance before Juliet, who is beside herself from terror. The devil gradually becomes the size of a giant (a novel effect). Juliet implores the statue of Madonna, which becomes animated, descends from its pedestal, and stretching out its arms orders the devil to disappear. The devil grows smaller and smaller and finally becomes a tiny dwarf, then he is lost in space. The window resumes its first form and Romeo embraces his beloved, with the benediction of the Virgin.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsGeorges Méliès plays the main character, as he splits into two versions of himself, and changes size.Included on Disc 1. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsTwo painters are working just above a group of soldiers, just as the commanding officer enters. One little slip with a paint bucket, and hilarity ensues.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after the manner of a cook, he extracts an egg as large as the hat itself. As soon as he sets this egg on the table there appears a tiny dancing girl, full of life, as big as a baby's doll, and who performs on the table some beautiful stage dances. All of a sudden she increases to the size of a ordinary woman, and jumping on the floor she delights the audience with her turns. The juggler and the dancing girl disappear in the most extraordinary way.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.Included on Disc 2 (with optional narration). Genre: Science-Fiction.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad in tights. A barrel is then introduced and the girl enters one end. As she makes her exit from the other she is transformed into a man. The man then jumps through a paper hoop, and as he lands on the other side is changed back into the girl. The girl is then placed upon a table, the table is removed, and, to the astonishment of all, she remains in her position, apparently resting in mid-air. Two benches are then introduced and chairs placed under them, a man occupying one and the girl the other. At a wave of the magician's wand the figures fade away. When they reappear the girl and the man have changed places. Wonderful magic.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seven bags in a strong box, and makes with his hands some cabalistic motions. The miser comes into the hall and is greatly astonished to find his fortune missing. He opens the coffer and immediately the bags leap out. He gathers them up and puts them back into the coffer. When he opens it again he finds that they have been transformed into seven young girls, who rush out and chase after him, beating him unmercifully. They shut him up in the coffer from which his gold has vanished. The miser pushes open the lid of the coffer, and to his profound despair finds that both young girls and money have disappeared. (This view is most sensational in its mysterious scenes.)Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAn energetic Russian Cossack dancer who knows how to impress his audience with his extraordinary set of moves has a trick up his sleeve designed to capture applause.Included on Disc 2 (Color). Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAn ancient tower, in which is seated the magician, occupies the centre of the stage. On either side of the tower is a statue. The magician waves his hands and the tower and both statues disappear. He then removes his coat and seats himself upon a chair. On one side of the chair, two figures, each an exact counterpart of himself, appear. On the other side a third figure, also an exact counterpart of himself, appears. The figures then run up the wall, one of them balancing itself upon the head of the magician, and the others stand on their heads in the palms of his hands. The figures are then turned into flags, which the magician waves and throws aside as he makes his exit.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsGulliver washes ashore on Lilliput, the inhabitants of which are no more than six inches tall. He later travels to Brobdingnag, a country populated by giants.Included on Disc 2 (Color). Genre: Fantasy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsCharles UrbanStarsPaul MélièsA re-enactment using actors of the recent coronation of Britain's King Edward VII.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Drama/Reenactment.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA musketeer bows to the audience and proceeds to hang his hat, coat and vest on the wall in a most amazing manner. Being in need of two pages, he brings them out of his coat, and with rope he makes a hoop. The two pages stretch out a large sheet of white paper. The musketeer puts the hoop through the paper, and instantly the hoop is all covered with paper like those used by performers in the circus. The pages hold up the hoop; the paper bursts, only to let out a hideous clown, who goes and sits in the corner to see what is going to happen. Then the musketeer breaks the hoop, takes out of his hat a lot of flowers, which he throws on the pieces of the hoop, and by his act he makes a lovely wreath, from which appears a beautiful woman. This woman is then substituted by an immense and grinning face, into which the clown jumps. Then an explosion is heard and nothing is left of the clown nor the head. The musketeer takes the pages on his soldiers, one after the other, and they are changed as his coat and hat. Finally he disappears in a most mysterious way.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsDeep into a vast cavern of the pitch-black inferno, a couple of professional dancers demonstrate the cakewalk that is currently so much in vogue, and now, everyone in the once-gloomy underworld is doing the crazy dance. Who is the best?Included on Disc 2. Genre: Dance.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAs scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these chairs the operator places a sheet of glass on which he lays a box about four inches high. He then takes a table cover, with his servant's help, rolls it up and from the centre emerges a lady, beautifully dressed. At the juggler's order she jumps in the box, in which she completely disappears. The operator, in taking the box, notices an incredulous smile among the audience; he then affirms that the lady is still inside, and to prove it he puts the box on his knees and the girl appears again in full figure. He makes her go in again, and opening the box he shows that the girl has vanished and that her dresses only remain at the bottom. Then he jumps into the box himself, and his servant afterward; the box rolls off the stage without any help.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsDenied a handout, a witch exacts vengeance by cursing the village well.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA traveler is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to happen in his room, and before long he has created a disturbance that has everyone running to his room to find out what is going on.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyIn a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding the fountain to his liking he goes after his scholars. A mysterious person who has noticed the old man, by means of a balloon, a handkerchief and a coat, constructs a peculiar figure, doing a lot of tricks at the same time. The professor returns with his class and all prepare for work, when, at the sign of the juggler, the statue comes to life, makes fun of the professor and finally is transformed into a fountain surmounted by a dolphin, throwing up streams of water. The unlucky professor loses his balance, tumbles into the water and gets a shower bath while the pupils sketch the scene. A most laughable subject.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsTwo guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and to be condemned to death for his practice of witchcraft. He begs the king to permit him just one hour of liberty, assuring the king that he will create, thanks to his power, a charming woman, worthy of becoming the king's consort. The king, after a moment of hesitation, agrees. The sorcerer asks the king to remove the guards. The king commands them to retire, but not to go far away so as to be within easy call. The sorcerer evokes a spirit. A demon emerges from the floor, and at the command of the sorcerer goes and finds a palanquin, which is brought in by beautiful pages. In this palanquin which the sorcerer shows, at first, to be empty, three lovely Greek goddesses slowly appear. The king is charmed, but he remarks to the sorcerer that the Greek costumes do not please him. But they are quickly transformed, under the spell of the magician, into rich court dresses. The lady in the middle becomes a haughty queen, the two others are changed to ladies in waiting. The king takes the hand of the queen and escorts her, followed by her two attendants, to a seat beside his throne. The pages remove the palanquin. The king asks the magician to amuse the company by some of his wonderful tricks. So the magician takes a chair which he makes waltz about the hall. Then he throws it into the air, where the chair is transformed into a royal clown who performs some feats of dislocation. He ends his performance by a perilous leap and falls back to the floor in the original form of the chair, makes a saucy face at the king and disappears turning somersaults. The king rushes down to the chair in astonishment. The chair disappears and at the same time the magician reappears upon the royal throne. The king in a rage summons the guards and orders them to arrest the magician. The latter throws down the guards, transforms them to demons, whom he orders to arrest and chain the king. Then, putting on the royal crown, the sorcerer goes out dancing with the queen and her attendants, who are no other than diabolical personages, while the king, because he was too credulous, remains chained to the spot -- a condition in which he wished to place the sorcerer at the beginning.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA thief attempts to steal treasure from the tomb of Delphi when a spirit appears. He brings two statues come to life, who in turn transform to thief's head into that of a donkey.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsA magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAgainst a moonlit Egyptian backdrop duly encompassing the Sphinx, a narrator explains how a prince hires a mystic to bring back his beloved late wife.Included on Disc 2 (with narration). Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsMarguerite ThévenardBleuette BernonIn this spectacular free adaptation of the popular theatre play "La Biche au Bois", the valiant Prince Bel-Azor pursues a baleful old witch to her impregnable castle, to save the beautiful young Princess Azurine.Included on Disc 2 (Color, with optional narration). Genre: Fantasy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsTwo demons throw helpless captives into a boiling cauldron, and then try to summon forth their spirits.Included on Disc 2 (Color). Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAlone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsBrief "trick film" in which Zeus and two other gods romp with dancing girls on Olympian clouds.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on. A Juggler enters, dressed in promenade costume, with an overcoat hanging over his arm, a silk hat on his head and carrying a cane. Laying down his coat and cane, he uses his hat for some of his juggling feats. Throwing the hat to the ground, it suddenly becomes a balloon, which he catches and balances on the end of the cane. The balloon turns into a piece of cloth, which in turn becomes an umbrella cover on the end of the cane. Concealing himself behind the umbrella for a moment, he suddenly comes forth clothed in the costume of a young Greek. He draws out of the umbrella a beautiful woman in Algerian costume. One after the other, he takes from the umbrella a Swiss, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Turkish, Holland, Swedish and Gypsy Maiden, and, as a finish, a beautiful Fairy appears, the latter dropping out of a bunch of roses as they fall from the umbrella. Thus there have been produced by one umbrella, ten beautiful maidens which our Juggler poses in a charming group. He causes each one to jump to the floor, but in their descent each one changes her costume to that of an up-to-date coquette. They all engage in a dance, and the scenery changes. The Juggler assumes his original costume. He tears the umbrella apart and the latter again becomes a cane. He misses his hat. Perceiving the balloon in the corner, he seizes it, and it again becomes a high hat, which he dons and bows himself out of the picture.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsA magician is performing a magic act but is constantly visited by his rival, who tries to steal his show.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA boy is led into the frame by two nursemaids who give him a big ball to play with. For the remainder of the film heads appear and disappear, stage props blow up and turn into other objects or people, and finally Bob Kick disappears.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsPioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyGeorges MélièsA prince is in need of a fiancee, so he visits a well-known sorcerer and asks for help. However, the prince does not exactly get what he bargained for.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsIn a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an armchair, sits down in it, but finds that it conceals a bucket of water, in which he falls. The juggler brings a large empty cask and puts it upon a table and fills it up with several pails of water. He leaps into the cask to take a bath, but he is bitten and hastily gets out. The water has disappeared, and in turning the cask upside down, some roosters and chickens come out of it very much alive. He stands the cask up again and shows with a pail that it is filled with water just as at first. Suddenly there comes out of the cask a pretty young girl, whom the juggler places in a chair upon the table. When he has wrapped her up in a veil he aims at her an enormous pistol, fires it, and the flash resembles that of a large cannon. The veil falls, disclosing the assistant, and at the same time the young girl emerges from the cask on the other table. The juggler shuts the girl up in the cask and then tips it over and out of it emerge two suckling pigs, one of which is changed into a poodle just as he leaps into the juggler's arms. And again the juggler shows that the cask is full of water. He curls up upon it, doubles himself up and disappears within, only to reappear again through the floor, whilst the assistant is emerging from the cask. Both now empty the water out of the cask into a bucket. Each one leaps into the latter and disappears, but suddenly comes upon the scene through the cask. They make their exit after a salute, but they once more come into view within the cask wrapped in one another's embrace in a most ridiculous attitude.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsZizi PapillonIn this brief "trick film" two clowns assemble an enormous magic lantern which first projects moving images, then emits dancing girls.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Dance.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsZizi PapillonA ballet master dreams of ballerinas.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Dance/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsScenes. 1. The Route to the Depths of Perdition (a Dazzingly Sensational New Effect.) 2. The Fantastical Ride. 3. The Gloomy Pass. 4. The Stream. 5. The Entrance to the Lower Regions. 6. The Marvelous Grottoes (tableau with six dissolving Scenes.) 7. The Crystal Stalactites 8. The Devil's Hole 9. The Ice Cavern. 10. The Goddesses of Antiquity (a Superb Fantastical Ballet in a Snowstorm.) 11. The Subterranean Cascade (a New Trick with Apparition in a Waterfall.) 12. The Nymphs of the Underworld.--The Seven Headed Hydra--The Demons--The Struggle of Water with Fire (a big Novelty.) 13. The Descent to Satan's Domain (a clever trick now first shown.) 14. The Furnace. 15. The Triumph of Mephistopheles.Included on Disc 2 (with narration). Genre: Drama/Dance.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsIn a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into the place a lot of Turkish men and women preceding some Turkish policemen, who drag along four prisoners in chains. The policemen shut up the four prisoners in the pillory. Their four heads stick up through the huge plank, which is provided with four openings. One of the policemen urges the executioner to decapitate the prisoners. He accordingly seizes a mighty sabre and cuts off by a single stroke the four heads, which roll upon the ground. After having placed the heads in a cask, he resumes eating his meal. Immediately the four heads pop out of the cask one at a time to see what the executioner is doing, and in due order each one seeks its body. The four executed prisoners thus reunited throw themselves upon the headsman and in spite of his resistance one of them picks up the sabre lying upon the ground and cuts his body into two pieces. The four prisoners take flight. The two legs and lower part of the body run frantically, while the bust upon the ground calls to them with gestures of despair. Finally, when the legs, in their flight, come close to the bust, it seizes them and thus the pieces of the executioner are united. Then he calls the policemen, who, followed by the crowd, enter into the pursuit of the escaping men.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsAndré DeedGeorges MélièsPierrot comes to a miser's house to serenade his lover but he kicks him out. The lady on the moon offers him her hand. He serenades her till the greedy miser comes out and attempts to punish him. But Pierrot jumps onto the moon with his new lover and they float away, and the greedy man is transformed into a beggar.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsMelies the magician puts on a magic show by provoking his head with a cloud of smoke. Later the head gets his revenge on the magician.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other people.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThrough a rapid succession of drawings, ingenious disguises and soft dissolves, the director portrays a quick-sketch artist who transforms to various characters according to the static outlines on his chalkboard.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping clock-maker some new kinds of clocks that they know how to make.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Fantasy/Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThis shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court. Taking a large sheet of cardboard, he rolls it into the shape of a tube. Showing that it is entirely empty, he holds it over the table, and a figure is seen gradually coming into view; and before the eye can perceive the change we behold a beautiful Tyrol dancing girl standing on the table with the tube around her. Lifting the tube over her head, the prince assists her down from the table and she executes a tambourine dance. Then, placing a chair and a stool on the stage, he hypnotizes her. Drawing the tube over her he places her horizontally supported by the head and feet. She is next seen to fade away, only to reappear standing on the table. He takes her hand to assist her down. When she reaches the floor, we behold the princess in her place. The prince attempts to kiss her and finds that he is going to kiss the Tyrolese. Bidding her sit in the other chair, he sees the princess come into view. Taking her arm, he leaves the stage. This is a beautiful subject and very entertaining.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsMlle. BodsonGeorges MélièsAn executioner attempts to burn a woman at the stake but his victim comes back as an angel and gives him what he deserves.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJeanne CalvièreGeorges MélièsOld and burdened Faust sells his soul to the Devil for the exchange of youth and pleasures. He seduces Marguerite and is finally condemned to hell.Included on Disc 2 (Fragment, with narration). Genre: Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAs we are treated with a rare appearance from a true master of the miraculous Asian thaumaturgy, a fine display of multiplication commences, and a serene young geisha completes the enchantment. What does the Chinese conjurer have in mind?Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe king of France receives a marvelous fan. The fan opens to reveal plain lace. This lace becomes pictures of women which then come to life an move in unison as their clothing changes.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film/Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.Included on Disc 2. Genre: Trick Film.