The Magician (French: Le Magicien; Star Film Catalogue no. 153.) is a 1898 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès, featuring a wizard, a...

2009 Magician (Feist novel), a 1982 novel in the Riftwar series by Raymond E. Feist The Magician, a 2021 novel by Colm Tóibín The Magician (1898 film), a...

The following is an overview of the events of 1898 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. The Spanish–American War was a popular...

The Famous Box Trick (French: Illusions fantasmagoriques) is an 1898 French silent trick film, directed by Georges Méliès, featuring a stage magician...

career as a magician and escape artist to run the company. Magician Harry Kellar was a major investor. In 1919 Houdini moved to Los Angeles to film. He resided...

Cleopatra the Alchemist – Egyptian alchemist and writer Saint Cyprian the Magician — 4th-century sorcerer from Antioch Elymas – Jewish magus depicted in the Acts...

supernatural means. It is one of the oldest performing arts in the world. Modern entertainment magic, as pioneered by 19th-century magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin...

trick film directed by Georges Méliès. A magician enters the frame and stands between two tables. He removes his own head and puts it on one of the tables...

Língfú) was the stage name of the Chinese magician Chee Ling Qua (Chinese: 朱連魁; pinyin: Zhū Liánkuí, 1854–1922). He is credited with being the first modern...

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bishop and writer John Milner (magician), British magician, stage and TV performer John Milner, a character in the 1973 film American Graffiti John Milnor...

and the American cinematographers Billy Bitzer, James Stuart Blackton and Edwin S. Porter. In the first years of film, especially between 1898 and 1908...

Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo (Chinese: 程連蘇; pinyin: Chéng Liánsū)...

recounts that, as a stage magician, he was fascinated by motion pictures and used film to create imaginative works through his Star Film Company. Forced into...

Barbenfouillis and The Moon. Méliès, a pioneering French film-maker and magician now generally regarded as one of the first people to recognise the potential of...

Pathé-Frères is founded in Paris. 1896 – French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing...

Mary Adams (1898–1984): English producer and BBC television administrator. Phillip Adams (born 1939): Australian broadcaster, writer, film-maker, left-wing...

The history of film technology traces the development of techniques for the recording, construction and presentation of motion pictures. When the film...

stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. He was the co-founder of the Committee...

The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, and The Firm. (For more about films...

Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921) William Empson, English poet and critic (b. 1906) April 16 – Byron Haskin, American film and television director...

American silent film actor Harry Lorraine (English actor) (1885–1970), actor in English silent films Harry Lorayne (1926–2023), American magician Harry Luff...

identify all relevant films including ones for which no copy survives.[2] Portrayals of Joan of Arc are numerous. For example, in 1979 the Bibliothèque Municipale...

Harindranath Chattopadhyay (2 April 1898 – 23 June 1990) was an Indian English poet, dramatist, actor, musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from Vijayawada...

The Yellow Kid (Mickey Dugan) is an American comic-strip character that appeared from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William...

Masaoka (政岡 憲三, Masaoka Kenzō, October 5, 1898 – November 23, 1988) was a Japanese early anime creator. Masaoka was the first to use cel animation and recorded...

historian Georges Sadoul hypothesized that the Devil in the film was played by Jules-Eugène Legris, a magician who performed at Méliès's Théâtre Robert-Houdin...

Company and is numbered 262–263 in its catalogs. On an empty stage, a magician (Méliès) multiplies himself and his chair to form an instrumental band...

The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which...

2012–2017: Saving Hope 2013–2015: The Haunted Hathaways (episodes) 2013–2017: Sleepy Hollow 2015–2016: Puli 2015–2021: The Magicians 2015–2016: American Horror...