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...

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

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

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...

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)...

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...

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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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

trick film directed by French film pioneer Georges Méliès. The film was a lost film until partially rediscovered in 2016. A performing magician divides...

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

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...

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...

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

gender, was radical, and the book was banned by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and authorities elsewhere. Magician in Henri Desmarets's...

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...

sporting event in Australia. In France, magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing...

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...

Children was made in 1898. A year later, a film directed by George Albert Smith titled Santa Claus (or The Visit from Santa Claus in the United Kingdom) was...

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