Some Films of Georges Melies
Georges Melies made hundreds of films. An excellent survey of extant Melies films can be found in Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of George Melies by John Frazer (1979, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston). This book lists all the films, provides illustrations and synopses, and indicates archives where indiviual titles are available.
The following is a listing of some of Melies' better-known works, and some films which are readily available from film libraries.
Méliès Films, 1896-1910 - (Commonly-used English Title / Original French Title)
- The Vanishing Lady / Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin (1896)
- An Up-to-Date Conjuror / Illusioniste fin de siècle (1899)
- Cendrillon / Cinderella (1899)
- The Dreyfus Affair / L'Affaire Dreyfus (1899)
- A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)
- The Infernal Cakewalk / Le Cake-walk infernal (1903)
- The Mystical Flame / La Flamme merveilleuse (1903)
- Kingdom of the Fairies / Le Royaume des Fées (1903)
- The Monster / Le Monstre (1903)
- The Melomaniac / Le Mélomane (1903)
- The Inn Where No Man Rests/L'Auberge du Bon Repos (1903)
- The Magic Lantern / La Lanterne magicue (1903)
- The Ballet Master's Dream / La Rêve du Maître de Ballet (1903)
- The Damnation of Faust / Le Damnation de Faust (1903)
- The Terrible Turkish Executioner / Le Bourreau turc (1904)
- Untameable Whiskers / Le Roi du Maquillage (1904)
- The Impossible Voyage / Le Voyage à travers l'Impossible (1904)
- Palace of the Arabian Knights / Le Palais des Mille et Une Nuits (1905)
- Paris to Monte Carlo / Le Raid Paris-Monte Carlo en 2 heures (1905)
- The Merry Frolics of Satan / Les 400 Farces du Diable (1906)
- The Mysterious Retort / L'Alchimste Parafaragamus ou la Cornue infernale (1906)
- The Eclipse / L'Éclipse du soleilen pleine lune (1907) (image)
- Dream of an Opium Eater / Le Rêve d'un fumeur d'opium (1907)
- The Doctor's Secret / Le secret du Médécin (1910)
- Baron Munchausen's Dream / Les Hallucinations du Baron de Münchausen (1910)
- Conquest of the Pole / Á la Conquète du Pole (1910)
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