Movies

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by...

A 1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly...

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and...

Lost trick film from Georges Méliès.

A fencing match. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around...

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other...

Inspired by The X-Rays (1987), is currently presumed lost.

The Count de Cagliostro, who occupies his spare time in working magic, has invited one of his friends to be present at an exhibition which has for...

Work on the wreck of the ship "Maine."

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open...

Before going to war with his neighbors, the King reviews his men. The Queen's Musketeer's, who number only young men, are proclaimed the best drilled...

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

Two couples, one old and one young, have blind dates at the same meeting place. The arrival of the wrong people at different times makes a fun...

Lost trick film from George Méliès of unknown plot.