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    The Impossible Voyage (1904). Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was born 8 December 1861 in Paris, son of Jean-Louis Méliès and his Dutch wife Johannah-Catherine...
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    Beaulieu Flipbooks", silentfilm.org, retrieved 25 April 2020 Méliès, Georges (2008), Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (DVD; short film collection), Los...
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    Georges Méliès (1861–1938), a French filmmaker and magician, made a variety of short actuality films between 1896 and 1900. Méliès was established as a...
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    Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon, Albany: State University of New York Press, p. 13, ISBN 9781438435817 Méliès, Georges (2010), Georges Méliès: Encore...
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    A Trip to the Moon (category Films directed by Georges Méliès)
    Mannoni, Laurent (2008), L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès, Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, ISBN 978-2-7324-3732-3 Méliès, Georges (2011a) [originally published 1902]...
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  • States. He was the brother of the film director Georges Méliès. Gaston and the third and elder Méliès brother, Henri, ran the family shoe factory in Paris...
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  • Hugo (film) (category Cultural depictions of Georges Méliès)
    surrounding his late father's automaton and the pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès. Hugo is Scorsese's first film shot in 3D, about which the filmmaker...
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    and eventual wife of French cinema pioneer, filmmaker and inventor Georges Méliès. D'Alcy had achieved success in theatrical productions by 1896, but...
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    illusion of the same name, created in Paris in 1886 and later revived by Georges Méliès in L'Escamotage d'une dame at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin, inspired the...
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    Joan of Arc (1900 film) (category Films directed by Georges Méliès)
    Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc) is a 1900 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on the life of Joan of Arc. In the village of Domrémy, the young...
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  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret (category Cultural depictions of Georges Méliès)
    Moon, directed by Georges Méliès. Hugo invites Etienne and the book's author, René Tabard, to Isabelle's house later, and explains Méliès’ career to Isabelle...
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  • Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30657-0. Méliès, Georges (2008). Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (short film collection; DVD). Los...
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  • co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit in 1917. August 9 – Georges Méliès' film The Coronation of Edward VII (a staged simulation with inserted...
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  • by Georges Méliès – (France) Mary Jane's Mishap, directed by George Albert Smith – (GB) The Melomaniac (Le Mélomane), directed by Georges Méliès – (France)...
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  • because Méliès, Robert W. Paul and Walter R. Booth introduced it at the end of 1901, each independently. Paul and Booth did it with this film and Méliès did...
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  • Nunuy (ed.). "Georges Melies Jadi Google Doodle, Ini 5 Film Terbaiknya". Tempo (in Corsican). Retrieved 2 December 2018. "Georges Méliès, pionnier lunaire"...
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  • directed by Georges Méliès. May be the first film to feature stop motion animation in cinema Faust and Marguerite, directed by George Melies. The Haunted...
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  • The Méliès d'Or (French pronunciation: [meljɛs dɔʁ]; English: Golden Méliès) is an award presented annually by the Méliès International Festivals Federation...
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    The Impossible Voyage (category Films directed by Georges Méliès)
    directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by Jules Verne's 1882 play Journey Through the Impossible, and modeled in style and format on Méliès's highly successful...
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    directed by and starring Georges Méliès. It is the earliest known film depicting a person shrinking down. A man, portrayed by Méliès, is split into two figures:...
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  • Work of Georges Méliès. McGill University. Hammond, Paul (1975). Marvellous Méliès. St. Martin's Press. Jenn, Pierre (1984). Georges Méliès cinéaste:...
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  • filmmaker, Georges Méliès. Méliès was an illusionist who had previously used magic lantern projections to enhance his magic act. In 1895, Méliès attended...
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  • Automobile Trip (Le Raid Paris–Monte Carlo en deux heures), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) Airy Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corsets, directed by...
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    of Georges Méliès. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co. p. 191. ISBN 0816183686. Malthête, Jacques; Mannoni, Laurent (2008). L'oeuvre de Georges Méliès. Paris: Éditions...
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  • feature innovative special effects. The trick film genre was developed by Georges Méliès in some of his first cinematic experiments, and his works remain the...
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  • The House of the Devil (1896 film) (category Films directed by Georges Méliès)
    The Devil's Castle, is an 1896 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. The film, which depicts a brief pantomimed sketch in the style of a...
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    regularly. In July 1888, the theatre came under the directorship of Georges Méliès. Méliès was a rising young magician who had performed at salons, at the...
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  • Paul – (GB) The Cook in Trouble (Sorcellerie culinaire), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) A Day in the Hayfields, directed by Cecil Hepworth – (GB)...
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  • Georges Méliès – (France) The Kiss, directed by Edwin S. Porter – (US) Ladies' Skirt Nailed to a Fence, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd – (GB) Let Me Dream...
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    After the Ball (1897 film) (category Films directed by Georges Méliès)
    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 128 in its catalogues. A...
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