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Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (/ m eɪ ˈ l j ɛ s /; [1] French:; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema , primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Georges Méliès (1861–1938) was a French filmmaker and magician generally regarded as the first person to recognize the potential of narrative film. [1] He made about 520 films between 1896 and 1912, [ 2 ] covering a range of genres including trick films , fantasies , comedies , advertisements , satires , costume dramas , literary ...
The trick film genre was developed by Georges Méliès in some of his first cinematic experiments, [2] and his works remain the most classic examples of the genre. [3] Other early experimenters included the French showmen Émile and Vincent Isola, the British magicians David Devant and John Nevil Maskelyne, and the American cinematographers Billy Bitzer, James Stuart Blackton and Edwin S. Porter.
Le Grand Méliès (1952): The life of Georges Méliès is told in this biodrama, directed by Georges Franju.André Méliès plays the part of his own father. In Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film, La Chinoise, Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) prefaces a lecture on current events with a discussion of who, in French cinema, was the true originator of the filming of current events, the Lumière brothers ...
A Trip to the Moon (French: Le voyage dans la lune, lit. 'The Journey to the Moon' [lə vwajaʒ dɑ̃ la lyn]) [a] is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed, and produced by Georges Méliès.
The following annotated list collects the Méliès films identified by scholars as reconstructed actualities. The list includes the numbers assigned to them in the catalogues of Méliès's studio, the Star Film Company; the original French and English titles; the date of release; and whether the film survives or is presumed lost.
One of the earliest books about Méliès. Contains a biography, select plot summaries, an autobiographical text that Méliès wrote in the third-person, and many illustrations. As it was written when his filmography contained more gaps, it misidentifies some of his films. [5] Sadoul, Georges (1961). Georges Méliès (in French). Seghers.
Illusionnist Georges Méliès (1861–1938), director of the Théâtre Robert-Houdin, is a figure of the early days of cinema. Left penniless in 1923, Méliès destroyed all his films (about 520 made between 1896 and 1912). [1]