Georges Méliès
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Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come. A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for decades to come. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician". Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896). In early 1909 Méliès stopped making films to protest Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Parents Company monopoly, and presided over the first meeting of the International Filmmakers Congress in Paris. Further financial hardships created by his opposition to Edison and diminishing influence, Méliès disappeared from public life. By the mid-1920s he made a meager living as a candy and toy salesma in Paris, with the assistance of funds collected by other filmmakers. Although he was recognized for his contributions in cinema, Méliès spent most of his later years in poverty before being accepted into La Maison du Retraite du Cinéma, the film industry's retirement home in Orly.
Satans Sacrilegious Saga
Devil
Alcoléa & cie Documentary
A Trip to the Melisverse
Archivo de imagen
Méliès: Tales of Terror
The Melomaniac
The Méliès Mystery
Self (archive footage)
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo
Self (archive footage)
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Self (archive footage)
The Extraordinary Voyage
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Magic of Méliès
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Cinematógrafo 1900
Self (archive footage)
Violons d'Ingres
Himself (archive footage)
Gala Méliès
Himself
The Knight of the Snow
Devil
The Conquest of the Pole
Le professeur Mabouloff
The Diabolical Church Window
Whimsical Illusions
The Magician
The Diabolic Tenant
Le locataire diabolique
The Doctor's Secret
The Fortune Favors the Brave
Gnome
French Cops Learning English
The Police Inspector
Tribulations; or, The Misfortunes of a Cobbler
The Roman
The Indian Sorcerer
The Fakir
Les infortunes des patineurs
Passerby
Not Guilty
The Old Farmer
The New Lord of the Village
Le fantôme de César
In the Barber Shop
Long Distance Wireless Photography
The Good Luck of a 'Souse'
Le commissaire de police
The King and the Jester
Tribolet
Satan in Prison
Satan
Good Glue Sticks
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
Professor of Astronomy
Delirium in a Studio
Ali Barbouyou
Tunneling the English Channel
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Witch
The Fairy Carabosse
The Mysterious Retort
The Merry Frolics of Satan
Satan
A Roadside Inn
Drunk Traveler
A Desperate Crime
The Hilarious Posters
The Bill Poster
The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship
Rip's Dream
Rip Van Winkle
Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus
Ulysses (uncredited)
The Palace of the Arabian Nights
The Sorcerer Khalafar (uncredited)
A Mesmerian Experiment
The Lilliputian Minuet
The Black Imp
The Living Playing Cards
The Magician
The Christmas Angel
The Rag-and-Bone Man / Beggar on Crutches / Coal Seller
The Firefall
Satan
The Wandering Jew
The Impossible Voyage
Mabouloff
The Mermaid
The Devilish Plank
The Cook in Trouble
The Wonderful Living Fan
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
Faust and Marguerite
Méphistophélès
The Clockmaker's Dream
The Untamable Whiskers
Man with whiskers
The Fugitive Apparitions
Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter
A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself
The Magician / The Double
Tit for Tat
A Moonlight Serenade
The Terrible Turkish Executioner
The Executioner
Faust in the Underworld
Mephistopholes
The Ballet Master's Dream
The Magic Lantern
Alcofribas, The Master Magician
Extraordinary Illusions
Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid
Jupiter's Thunderballs
Apparitions
The Infernal Cauldron
Devil
The Kingdom of the Fairies
Prince Bel-Azor
The Monster
The priest
The Melomaniac
The Oracle of Delphi
The Mystical Flame
The Mysterious Box
The Infernal Cake-Walk
Devil
Misfortune Never Comes Alone
Lamplighter
Beelzebub's Daughters
The Marvellous Wreath
The Enchanted Basket
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoé
Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
Gulliver
Sure Cure for Indigestion
Doctor
An Impossible Balancing Feat
The Magician
The Human Fly
The Hindoo Magician
The Treasures of Satan
A Trip to the Moon
Professeur Barbenfouillis / La Lune
The Prolific Magical Egg
The Dwarf and the Giant
The Devil and the Statue
The Man with the Rubber Head
The Chemist / The India Rubber Head
Hat of Many Surprises
Bluebeard
Barbe-bleue
The Prince of Magicians
Excelsior
The Temple of the Sun
A Maiden's Paradise
The Wizard
The Magician's Cavern
The Triple Headed Lady
The Brahmin and the Butterfly
The brahmin
The Astronomer's Dream
Astronomer
The Christmas Dream
Beggar
Joan of Arc
Père de Jeanne
The Artist and the Dummy
Artiste
The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head
Conjurer
A Fantastical Meal
The Man
The Magic Book
The Magician
The Wizard, the Prince and the Good Fairy
Prince
Up-to-Date Spiritualism
Le comique excentrique
Going to Bed Under Difficulties
The Man
The Fat and Lean Wrestling Match
Wrestler
The One-Man Band
All the members of the orchestra
The Dreyfus Affair
Fernand Labori
Cinderella
le gnome de la pendule / le suisse à l'entrée de l'église
The Human Pyramid
Summoning the Spirits
The Pillar of Fire
Cleopatra's Tomb
un profanateur de la tombe de Cléopâtre
The Mysterious Portrait
L'illusioniste
The Mysterious Knight
Le chevalier mystère
An Up-to-Date Conjurer
Magician
The Devil in a Convent
The Devil
A Midnight Episode
The Sleeping Man (uncredited)
The Four Troublesome Heads
Conjurer
The Bridegroom's Dilemma
Le marié
The Famous Box Trick
The Magician
The Magician
Le Sculpteur
Pygmalion and Galatea
Pygmalion
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Saint Antoine
Gugusse and the Automaton
Gugusse
A Funny Mahometan
The Funny Mahometan
Dancing in a Harem
Between Calais and Dover
The Man in the Checked Suit
Naval Combat in Greece
The Captain
The Bewitched Inn
The Traveler
Le château hanté
Mephisto
Faust and Marguerite
Méphistophélès
A Nightmare
Man
Le manoir du diable
Mephistopheles
Conjuring
Himself
Playing Cards
Un joueur de cartes
The Vanishing Lady
Le magicien
A Terrible Night
L'homme qui essaie de dormir