Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

A very enthusiastic magician performs several tricks.

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

A prince gets the help of a fairy to aid in his conflict with a wizard.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch t...

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and clay head on the statue, thus completing it. He plac...

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

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his room--beds vanishing and re-appearing, candles exploding, ...

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by their governess, are about to retire. Before lying...

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, a...