Georges Méliès

Prof. Barbenfouillis başkanlığında bir grup astronom Ay'a gitmek üzere planlar yaparlar. Sonuçta dev bir toptan gönderilen mermi şeklindeki uzay gemileri ile hedeflerine ulaşırlar. Ancak burada Aylılar tarafından kaçırılıp Ay kralının sarayına götürülürler... George Méliès'in çoğu Jules Verne'e dayanarak yaptığı yüzlerce kısa filmden bu en ünlüsü, -açıkça H.G.Wells'in First Men in the Moon'undan da esinlenerek- sinema tarihinin ilk bilim kurgu filmi olarak haklı bir üne sahiptir. Méliès'in filmleri janra ait klişelerin tümüne sahiptir neredeyse; çılgın bilim adamları, dehşet verici icatlar, roketler vs vs.. Roketin Ay'a varışını simgeleyen sempatik sekans, kuşkusuz sinemanın en bilinen sahnelerinden birine vesile olmuştur.

1904 yılı Fransa yapımı sessiz film. Filmin yönetmenliğini Georges Méliès üstlenmiştir. Film, Jules Verne'in Voyage à travers l'impossible adlı romanından uyarlanmıştır.

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead of containing the magician a lively clown steps forth who further mystifies the audience by causing the box to disappear, and in its place is seen a fully laid table with a smoking dinner, to which the clown applies himself. The table, however, suddenly disappears much to the astonishment of the clown, who is confronted by the magician in the garb of Mephistopheles. This he suddenly changes to that of a sculptor, and in the background is seen a pedestal with the bust of a young lady, which comes to life as the sculptor applies the mallet and chisel.

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer then has a large box brought in. It is opened, revealing a very large folding fan. When the fan is spread out, the designs on it begin to change and move. And this is far from the last of the surprises that the conjurer has in store.

A look back at the life, style and influences of the famed filmmaker Georges Méliès and an examination of his role in the story of "Hugo."

Cinderella veya Cendrillon 1899 yılı Fransa yapımı sessiz film. Filmin yönetmenliğini Georges Méliès üstlenmiştir. Film, Cinderella masalını konu edinmektedir. Sinema tarihinin ilk uyarlamalarındandır. Cinderella adlı kıza üvey annesi ve üvey kız kardeşleri kötü davranmaktadır. Bir iyilik perisi ona yardım edecek ve bir prensle birlikte olacaktır.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Tribute to Segundo de Chomón. Semi-documentary featuring short films and appearances by actors who explain his works, such as Inma de Santis, Jesús Gúzman, and Ana Mariscal.

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by hand to colour it. Originally a 15 minute film, twelve and a half minutes of painted film have been found and have been restored.

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece A Trip to the Moon (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A man is murdered and the killer brought to justice by guillotine. This film is partly lost.

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine to the bottom of the ocean, where he encounters both realistic and fanciful sea creatures, including a chorus of naiads played by dancers from the Théâtre du Châtelet. Méliès's design for the film includes cut-out sea animals patterned after Alphonse de Neuville's illustrations for Verne's novel.

Bir ortaçağ şatosunun iç mekanında uçan bir yarasanın Mephisto'ya dönüşmesini ve onun da çeşitli hayaletler, cadılar vs. çağırmasını gösteren ve Türkçe adı Şeytanın Şatosu olan 'Le manoir du diable' sinema tarihinin ilk korku filmidir. Filmin yönetmeni Georges Melies, Mephistopheles adlı şeytanı canlandırmıştır

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a Franco-American collaboration between Lobster Films, the National Film Center, and the Library of Congress.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.

Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.