The Vault

A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own father. Docum

In a grimy Parisian park, a starving pigeon and a hobo battle over a sandwich until the fate of the entire Universe hangs in the balance... Animation Comedy car

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was a French illusionist and filmmaker born on December 8, 1861, in Paris, France. He is famous for leading many technical and narrati

Two children, playing in the garden, with a dog and a cat. "Scènes d'enfants" is a short film directed by Georges Méliès, a prominent figure in the early days o

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion. Comedy Horr

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lu

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon. A Nightmare is a motion picture released in 1896. The film explores

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box. The film "The Famous Box Trick" is a short work of early cinema. It showcases a magician

A lost film. A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost. "Cleopatra's Tomb" is a

Born Léontine Ernestine Gauché, Bleuette Bernon was a French film actress who appeared in five films made by Georges Méliès around the turn of the 20th century.

Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuil

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body. Comedy Fantasy playful surreal whimsical silent

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference;