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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 ...
Georges Méliès. When A Trip to the Moon was made, film actors performed anonymously and no credits were given; the practice of supplying opening and closing credits in films was a later innovation. [11] The following cast details can be reconstructed from available evidence: Georges Méliès as Professor Barbenfouillis and The Moon.
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.
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.
L'Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou la Cornue infernale, released in the United States as The Mysterious Retort and in Britain as The Alchemist and the Demon, is a 1906 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 874–876 in its catalogues. [2]
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 ...
Under the Seas (1907) by Georges Méliès. Under the Seas (French: Deux Cents Mille Lieues sous les mers ou le Cauchemar du pêcheur) [2] [a] is a short silent film made in 1907 by the French director Georges Méliès.