Georges Méliès Movies

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus...

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...

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...

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

A group of people take roller skating too far.

French silent short film by Georges Méliès, presumed to be lost.

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and...

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

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...

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

Upon a visit to UVM's Lane Series in the Spring of 2022, Jean-Francois Alcolea offered to conduct a workshop to UVM film students and others on his...

After an evening of excessive wining and dining Baron Munchausen must be helped to bed by his servants. Once asleep, he has bizarre and frightening...