Fantasmagorie

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assis…

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other people.

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with sim…

A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment of six pretty maidens. Then, to the astonishment of al…

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girl…

A magic show.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the frames and walk forward, iring their costumes. Mep…

A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.

Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

A respected doctor becomes an unwitting killer, stalking his own household in hypnotic trances triggered by glimpses of his supposedly dead wife who haunts the grounds of his estate.