Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter (French: Un peu de feu, S.V.P.) was a 1904 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. An English tourist, sightseeing...

This effect was used again in The Man with the Rubber Head, in which Méliès plays a scientist who expands his own head to enormous proportions. This...

cinematic auteurs. Speaking about his work late in life, Méliès commented: "The greatest difficulty in realising my own ideas forced me to sometimes play...

showcase of his films recovered by René. Hugo and his new family celebrate at the apartment, and Isabelle begins to write down Hugo's own story. Ben Kingsley...

camera, they refused so Melies made his own camera out of his remaining materials from his parents' shoe company. His most famous work, A Trip to the Moon...

locations in 13 countries and 140 sets. Todd said he and the crew visited every country portrayed in the picture, including England, France, India, East...

of his much-pirated 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, that he opened an American branch of his company in New York in 1903, under the direction by his brother...

draws his sword and attacks the skeleton, which turns into a bat, then into Mephistopheles, who conjures four shrouded spectres to subdue the man and then...

A cigar is a rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaves made to be smoked. Cigars are produced in a variety of sizes and shapes. Since the 20th...

Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo. She was the wife of Georges Méliès from 1925 until his death in 1938. D'Alcy died at the age of 91 in 1956. She is buried with her...

running over a summit: this time, the Jungfrau. Getting higher and higher every minute, with dirigible balloons tied to the train, they rise into space...

camera. He began making his own films with it in May 1896, founded the Star Film Company in the same year, and built his own studio in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis...

Théâtre de la Galerie-Vivienne and played by the Troupe Raymond at Méliès's own theatre of illusions, the Théatre Robert-Houdin, at Christmastime of 1897...

authorized the coloring, as the stencil process is highly unusual in his oeuvre; normally, his films were colored using an entirely freehand method supervised...

himself as an apothecary who blows a copy of his own head up to enormous dimensions, but who is unable to get his assistant to perform the stunt as expertly...

Lubin. In order to combat the piracy, Méliès opened an American branch of his Star Film Company and began producing two negatives of each film he made:...

for Tat A Wager Between Two Magicians, or Jealous of Myself Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter The Bewitched Trunk The Fugitive Apparitions The Untamable...

Dreyfus's arrest on suspicion of espionage, through his imprisonments on Devil's Island and in Rennes, to his trial and conviction for treason; related events...

The One Man Band (French: L'Homme-Orchestre) is a 1900 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company...

disappearing completely. Turning, the man finds himself confronted by Satan. He attempts to escape, but a ghost blocks his way. The film marks the second appearance...

The Astronomer's Dream, or the Man in the Moon (French: La Lune à un mètre, literally "The Moon from One Meter Off") is an 1898 French silent trick film...

for Tat A Wager Between Two Magicians, or Jealous of Myself Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter The Bewitched Trunk The Fugitive Apparitions The Untamable...

A magician enters the frame and stands between two tables. He removes his own head and puts it on one of the tables, where it starts talking and looking...

keys to his castle to her and warns his wife never to go into a particular room. Caught between the fear of her husband's wrath and her own curiosity...

then flee at the approach of the sentry. The sentry is then reprimanded by his commander for the defacing of the wall. List of rediscovered films Frazer...

man who is not playing cards calls over a young girl and has her fetch a woman with a bottle of wine. He proceeds to pour glasses for himself and his...

for Tat A Wager Between Two Magicians, or Jealous of Myself Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter The Bewitched Trunk The Fugitive Apparitions The Untamable...

attracts many other adventurers, who depart in their own machines; soon the sky is full of aircraft of every shape and size. Both Tching-Tchun and the suffragette...

catalogues, where it is listed with the descriptive subtitle scène comique. A man tries to go to sleep, but is disturbed by a giant bug climbing up the bed...

own accord before disappearing in its turn; when the traveler tries to light a candle, it jumps across the room and explodes; when he takes off his coat...