The Genii of Fire (French: Le Génie du feu) is a 1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered...

capsule in the shape of a bullet is built, along with a huge cannon to shoot it into space. The astronomers embark and their capsule is fired from the cannon...

spirits everywhere, as detached particles of the ether: The whole air is full of souls which are called genii or heroes. — Diogenes Laertius, VIII, 32...

The House of the Devil (French: Le Manoir du diable, lit. 'The Devil's Manor'), released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in the United Kingdom...

after World War I, the deaths of Isabelle's parents, and the loss of most of his films in a fire, he sank into depression and burned the rest, to begin a...

the official bootmaker of the Dutch court before a fire ruined his business. Eventually the two married, founded a high-quality boot factory on the Boulevard...

the whole group has been frozen solid. Crazyloff finds a bundle of straw among the debris and starts a fire on the surface of the Sun to melt the ice...

d'Alcy, was a French film actress. She is best known as being the mistress and eventual wife of French cinema pioneer, filmmaker and inventor Georges Méliès...

powerful enemies: the Wraith, the Genii, and later the Asurans and a lost tribe of Asgard, all while trying to uncover the secrets the Ancients left behind...

Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 64, ISBN 0816183686 Wikimedia Commons has media related to After the Ball (1897 film)...

wolfhounds, oxen, Siamese cats, elephants, clowns, a fire engine, and a symphony orchestra." The film was originally distributed by United Artists in...

notebook. Following his father’s death in a fire, Hugo goes to live with his alcoholic uncle Claude, who maintains the clocks at Gare Montparnasse. When Claude...

regarded as the first person to recognize the potential of narrative film. He made about 520 films between 1896 and 1912, covering a range of genres including...

gives off a final burst of flame. Méliès plays the demon, identified in the Star Film Company's American catalogue as Belphegor. The film's special effects...

Fairy of Gold. Sourire and his friends descend into a Crystal Grotto, where their courage is tested by attacks from genii of fire, will-o'-the-wisps,...

Finally it moves so close that the newspaper catches fire. From the fire comes an apparition of a woman, with whom the traveler is fascinated. As he kneels...

The Vanishing Lady (French: Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin, literally "Magical Disappearance of a Lady at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin") is an...

of a previous film by Méliès, The House of the Devil (Le Manoir du diable, 1896). The 1896 original, which was released in the United States as The Haunted...

in the United States as Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants and in the United Kingdom as Gulliver's Travels—In the land of the Lilliputians...

The Pillar of Fire (French: Danse du feu), initially released in America and Britain as Haggard's "She"—The Pillar of Fire and also known as La Colonne...

Star Film Company and is numbered 113 in its catalogues. The film is one of a small group of risqué "mature subjects" (i.e. stag films) Méliès made around...

Joan of 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 Dreyfus Affair (French: L'affaire Dreyfus), also known as Dreyfus Court-Martial, is an 1899 series of eleven short silent films by Georges Méliès...

The film featured a clown amazed and confused by the mechanical movements of an automaton. The film marked the first known cinematic appearance of a...

footmen. The magician and footmen stand on the trunk and become the two women, while the three men pop out of the trunk underneath them. All four of the magician's...

tableaux. The casts of Méliès's films are in many cases unidentified. Most of the following listing is based on cast identifications made by the film scholars...

is numbered 593–595 in its catalogues. Méliès himself plays the gentleman in the film. The special effects include stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution...

the same strip of film to be run through the camera seven times. The rest of the film's special effects were created with substitution splices. The film...

of his stage magic acts, and starring Méliès himself, the film presents a varied assortment of images and imaginings dreamed by the astronomer of the...

Méliès, who is also the actor doing the "conjuring". The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin...