

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…
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A Trip to the Moon
1902 • Movie
Professeur Barbenfouillis / La Lune

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 • TV
Self (archive footage)

ORG
1979 • Movie
Thanks

Cinderella
1899 • Movie
le gnome de la pendule / le suisse à l'entrée de l'église

The Extraordinary Voyage
2011 • Movie
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

The Impossible Voyage
1904 • Movie
Mabouloff

Gugusse and the Automaton
1897 • Movie
Gugusse

Le manoir du diable
1896 • Movie
Mephistopheles

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
2012 • Movie
Self (archive footage)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1907 • Movie
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