Movies

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

The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room,...

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

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.

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

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

In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...

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...

The extraordinary life of cinema pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

A compellation of many silent films from all over the world, given music and sound design.

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

Another short of Georges.

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

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

A sorcerer turns a small egg into a bigger one and keeps repeating this trick until the egg is large enough to do other things including delivering...

This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser...

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.