Georges Méliès Movies

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.

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

Another magic short of Méliès.

"The picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he...

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

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

The interior of a trolley car. A menagerie of passengers notices a foul odour, and pinpoint the source of the stench at a cheese saleswoman. The...

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,...

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

AN UNEXPECTED BATH" shows the astronomer watching women rain down from the heavens.

A magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

A group of people take roller skating too far.

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.