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Plaque commemorating the site of Méliès' birth – "In this block of flats was born on 8 December 1861 Georges Méliès, creator of the cinematic spectacle, prestidigitator, inventor of numerous illusions" Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was born 8 December 1861 in Paris, son of Jean-Louis Méliès and his Dutch wife Johannah-Catherine Schuering. [3]
Thanks to the efforts of film history devotées, especially René Clair, Jean George Auriol, and Paul Gilson, Méliès and his work were rediscovered in the late 1920s, and he was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1931. [11] In the list below, Méliès's films are numbered according to their order in the catalogues of the Star Film Company.
Thanks to the efforts of film history devotées, especially René Clair, Jean George Auriol, and Paul Gilson, Méliès and his work were rediscovered in the late 1920s. A "Gala Méliès" was held at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on 16 December 1929 in celebration of the filmmaker, and he was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1931. [ 91 ]
A catologue of A Trip to the Movies: Georges Méliès, Filmmaker and Magician (1861–1938), an exhibition hosted June 29 – September 8, 1991, at the George Eastman House. Contains studies of Méliès, by Roland Cosandey and Yuri Tsivian, and a translation of a forum about him hosted by the Commission de recherche historique of the ...
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 ...
The Star Film logo (at left) on the set of Méliès's film The Man with the Rubber Head. On 28 December 1895, Méliès attended the celebrated first public demonstration of the Lumière Brothers' Kinetoscope.
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Georges Méliès. Georges Méliès (1861–1938), a French filmmaker and magician, made a variety of short actuality films between 1896 and 1900. Méliès was established as a magician with his own theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, when he attended the celebrated first public demonstration of the Lumière Brothers' Kinetoscope in December 1895.