Georges Méliès Movies

The fairest maiden is crowned queen of the May Day festival and the dignitaries of the town, surrounded by the cheering populace, music and...

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment....

Showing the interior of a dining room of a modest cottage, whereto enter a young couple to partake in their meal, which is being served up by the...

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...

1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

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

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

There's a scene in a village, then there's a scene out in the wilderness with what appear to be gods, and a giant crab, and a giant frog... then...

French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, considered lost.

A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.

Upon a visit to UVM's Lane Series in the Spring of 2022, Jean-Francois Alcolea offered to conduct a workshop to UVM film students and others on his...

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

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

This lost film presumably features a train arriving at Vincennes station, eastern Paris. (Until 2020, was confused with Arrival at Joinville...

A boy is led into the frame by two nursemaids who give him a big ball to play with. For the remainder of the film heads appear and disappear, stage...

A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book