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The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

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…

A sorceress conjures up a bevy of beauties for a bachelor to peruse.

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

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

A performing magician divides into two people. The doubles then take turns doing tricks before merging back into one man.

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

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...

A magician's hat offers many surprises.

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

A short French fantasy film.