Between Calais and Dover 1897
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
An astronomer has a terrifying dream.
A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
A woman slips into her bed with the help of her servant. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same time
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.
A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from behind it. The dog becomes a woman, then a masked man appears. The conjurer sits them each on a box a few feet apart: suddenly the woman and man have changed places. The disappearing and the transfers continue in front of a simple backdrop.
A witch curses a town's well.
A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.
Magic tricks in a medieval setting.
The Secret Kingdom is a 1917 silent action movie serial comprised of 15 chapters: 1. Land of the Intrigue 2. Royalty at Red Wing 3. Sealed Packet 4. Honorable Mr. Oxenham 5. Carriage Call #101 6. Human Flotsam 7. Ghost Ship 8. Rum Cay 9. Swamp Adder 10. A Goat Without Horns 11. The White Witch 12. The Shark's Nest 13. The Tragic Masque 14. The Portrait of a King 15. The Tocsin.
An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.
1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.
A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.
With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus tries to make some repairs but succeeds only in heating the bolts and burning Zeus's hands. Zeus conjures nine muses, but do their incantations help? He dismisses them as well as a visiting Pan, and his fits of pique become counter-productive. Can he get his powers back?
During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur Meyer of the 'Gaulois', and Mme. Severine of the 'Fronde', resulting in a fight between Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards, in which canes and chairs are brought down upon the heads of many. The room is finally cleared by the gendarmes.
A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same time
A 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.
An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.