Georges Méliès

About

Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 - January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. One of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, tracking shots, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work, Méliès pioneered effects that would define cinematic special effects for decades to come.  A prolific innovator in the use of special effects, Méliès accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, a method of creating seamless disappearing and/or appearing effects used throughout both films and television for decades to come.  Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician". Two of his best-known films are A...

Known for

A Trip to the MoonMovie • 1902CinderellaMovie • 1899The Impossible VoyageMovie • 1904The Conquest of the PoleMovie • 1912The Four Troublesome HeadsMovie • 1898Le manoir du diableMovie • 1896The Man with the Rubber HeadMovie • 1901The WitchMovie • 1906The MonsterMovie • 1903The Vanishing LadyMovie • 1896Playing CardsMovie • 1896The Kingdom of the FairiesMovie • 1903A NightmareMovie • 1896Excursion to the MoonMovie • 1908The Astronomer's DreamMovie • 1900Rip's DreamMovie • 190520,000 Leagues Under the SeaMovie • 1907The Pillar of FireMovie • 1899Robinson CrusoeMovie • 1902BluebeardMovie • 1901The MermaidMovie • 1904Tunneling the English ChannelMovie • 1907The Bewitched InnMovie • 1897The Infernal CauldronMovie • 1903