The Man with the Rubber Head 1901
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
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 magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
An astronomer has a terrifying dream.
A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.
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?
A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
A 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.
After being defeated in a fight by a local gang, local official Lu Fengyang sends his weak and sickly son Lu Xiaoqing to study with a master of the Kunlun school of martial arts. Recovered and strong, he comes upon the Red Lotus Temple, and puts up there for the night. Unable to sleep, he begins looking around the palatial temple, and discovers a room decorated with many images of Buddhist demons, and an altar to worship them... Purposely destroyed serial film whose 19 full length chapters (averaging 86 minutes each) originally ran 27 hours in length.
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.
An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.
Characters from a large magic book come to life.
The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.
A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.
A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.
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.
Melies second attempt at telling the story of Faust. This time out Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.
St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!