Grotesquerie

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poster The Marvellous Wreath
The Marvellous Wreath
3mn - Fantasy
A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.
poster Comical Conjuring
Comical Conjuring
2mn - Comedy
In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an armchair, s…
poster The Treasures of Satan
The Treasures of Satan
3mn - Horror, Fantasy
The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seve…
poster Le cigare introuvable
Le cigare introuvable
1mn - Comedy
Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.
poster The Red Spectre
The Red Spectre
(3.3/5)
8mn - Fantasy
A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.
poster Hypocrites
Hypocrites
(3.3/5)
54mn - Drama
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
poster The Untamable Whiskers
The Untamable Whiskers
3mn - Fantasy, Comedy
The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist.…
poster Transformation by Hats
Transformation by Hats
1mn - Comedy
Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
poster Whimsical Illusions
Whimsical Illusions
5mn - Comedy, Fantasy
In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assis…
poster Kiri-Kis
Kiri-Kis
3mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.
poster An Extraordinary Dislocation
An Extraordinary Dislocation
2mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.
poster Faust in the Underworld
Faust in the Underworld
7mn - Fantasy
The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with sim…
poster The Golden Beetle
The Golden Beetle
3mn - Fantasy
A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.
poster Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
3mn - Comedy
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …
poster Drama at the Puppets' House
Drama at the Puppets' House
4mn - Comedy, Animation, Crime
For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle maiden gets herself into numerous embarrassing complicati…
poster A Mesmerian Experiment
A Mesmerian Experiment
3mn - Fantasy
A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.
poster Miniature Theatre
Miniature Theatre
(2.9/5)
5mn - Comedy, Animation
Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and be…
poster An Impossible Balancing Feat
An Impossible Balancing Feat
1mn - Comedy
A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.
poster A Funny Shave
A Funny Shave
2mn - Comedy
A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.
poster The Lilliputian Minuet
The Lilliputian Minuet
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.
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