together to allow the mid-motion transformations to seem smooth. Méliès made two versions of An Up-to-Date Conjuror, with a different dancer and different scenery...

Up-to-Date Surgery is strongly reminiscent of, and was probably inspired by, "Le Charlatan Fin de Siècle" ("The Turn-of-the-Century Charlatan"), an 1892...

and his collection of mechanical, wind-up figures called automata. Selznick decided to add an Automaton to the storyline after reading Gaby Wood's 2003...

Théâtre Robert-Houdin as well as various others of his films, such as An Up-to-Date Conjuror (1899) and Extraordinary Illusions (1903). Coppelia, the Animated...

theatrical productions by 1896, but left the stage to devote herself to film, becoming one of the first performers to do so. Born in Vaujours, Seine-Saint-Denis...

minutes, it was Méliès' longest film up to that date and cost 10,000 francs to produce.[citation needed] The film was an enormous success in France and around...

attempting to move his weighty camera toward an actor, he set a pulley-operated chair upon a rail-fitted ramp, placed the actor (covered up to the neck...

theatrical comic fantasy, tells the story of an encounter with the Devil and various attendant phantoms. It is intended to evoke amusement and wonder from its...

(1948) Up Syndrome (2001) Up There (2011) An Up-to-Date Conjuror (1899) Up a Tree: (1930 & 1955) Up 'n' Under (1998) Up at the Villa (2000) Up in the...

Hugo drops down to the track to retrieve it, and is run over by an out-of-control train that smashes through the station. He wakes up from the nightmare...

2019, retrieved 9 August 2020 Bennett, Carl (20 April 2012), "Cinderella Up-to-Date", Progressive Silent Film List, Silent Era Bennett, Carl (5 April 2010)...

12, 2014 following the TCM broadcast of the movie on that date Goodman, Ezra. "Rounding Up Stars in 80 Ways." LIFE, 22 October 1956. Michael Todd's Around...

running to 374 meters (about 20 minutes at silent-film projection speeds), was Méliès's longest to date, and cost about ₣37,500 (US$7,500) to make. In...

on the crescent moon, in Méliès's famous A Trip to the Moon. Carmelli as the Prince. Carmelli was an actor at Méliès's theater of stage illusions, the...

the grand parade at Orléans, an effect created by having a moderately sized group of people cross the screen from left to right, go around the north side...

Film Company; the original French and English titles; the presumed filming date; and whether the film survives or is presumed lost. Unless otherwise referenced...

popular A Trip to the Moon, were frequently pirated by American producers such as Siegmund Lubin. In order to combat the piracy, Méliès opened an American branch...

hypnosis as a career. As an undergraduate, he started working as a conjuror, performing the traditional skills of close-up magic in bars and restaurants...

to undress, is foiled by magically appearing clothes; the first being Up-To-Date Spiritualism (1900). The gag was frequently recycled by rival studios...

Peeping Tom at the Seaside (French: L'Indiscret aux bains de mer) was an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star...

Méliès's longest film up to that date, and it has sometimes been described as such. However, the eleven installments were designed to be sold individually...

A Mix-up in the Gallery (French: Une chute de cinq étages) is a 1906 French short silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. Méliès, acting in a wig...

After the Ball (French: Après le bal) is an 1897 French short silent film made by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and numbered...

Eighty Days features an abridged version of A Trip to the Moon, introduced by Edward R. Murrow, as part of the film's prologue. An image of the Man in...

Méliès. A music master leads his band to a field where five telegraph lines are strung on utility poles. Hoisting up a giant treble clef, he turns the set...

advertised a Gulliver's Travels film in 1903; this may have been an attempt by Lubin to ride on the popularity of Méliès's version. In 1988, Jean-Pierre...

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...

September 1903. According to the Méliès scholar John Frazer, the film was "the most ambitious Star Film production to date" and "was widely distributed...

An Hallucinated Alchemist (French: L'hallucination de l'alchimiste), also known as The Alchemist's Hallucination, was an 1897 French silent trick film...

descendants of Méliès are large contributors to his scholarship. His granddaughter Madeleine Malthête-Méliès, who grew up with him after her mother's death, began...