Georges Méliès
1896
A Serpentine Dance
A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is uncle…
1896
Les tribulations d'un concierge
Georges Méliès lost film.
1897
Bois de Boulogne
A street scene.
1897
Fencing at the Joinville School
A fencing match. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creati…
1897
土拿维斯城的弃降
星膜106
1898
Carrefour de l'opéra
Noted for the first use of time-lapse in a motion picture.
Guerre de Cuba et l'explosion du Maine à La Havane
Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Ben…
1899
A Midnight Episode
A sleeping apartment of a friend who retires for the night. The rays of the moon are shini…
1899
Extravagant Struggles
In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling h…
Le conférencier distrait
A short French fantasy film.
Lightning Change Artist
A man makes twenty complete changes in two minutes, combining with them dances. The change…
1899
Summoning the Spirits
A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it…
1899
The Clown and Automobile
The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke
The Human Pyramid
Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen…
1900
The Bath
"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.
The Unexpected Bath
AN UNEXPECTED BATH" shows the astronomer watching women rain down from the heavens.
1901
Barbe-bleue
The mysterious Bluebeard proposes to the reluctant daughter of an aristocrat, who grants h…
1902
The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique
This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled in…
1913
The Voyage of M. Bourrichon
An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering…