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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.

poster The Magic Dice

The Magic Dice

1mn - Comedy, Fantasy

Another magic short of Méliès.

poster The Monster Maker

The Monster Maker

62mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

Obsessed with a young woman, mad scientist Dr. Igor Markoff injects her father with a horrific disease that causes grotesque deformities. As the pianist's condition deteriorates, he faces an impossible ch…

poster The Prince of Magicians

The Prince of Magicians

2mn - Fantasy, Comedy

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

poster The Devil

The Devil

Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

poster The Mysterious Box

The Mysterious Box

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these chairs the operator places a sheet of glass on which h…

poster Bride of the Monster

Bride of the Monster

69mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the loca…

poster Scarecrow Pump

Scarecrow Pump

A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a scarecrow, so that he can play a practical joke on a drunken ac…

Maniac

An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.

poster The Fatal Mallet

The Fatal Mallet

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

poster An Impossible Balancing Feat

An Impossible Balancing Feat

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

poster The Pillar of Fire

The Pillar of Fire

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an an…

poster The Express Sculptor

The Express Sculptor

A sculptor creates several faces in a span of four minutes.

poster Faust in the Underworld

Faust in the Underworld

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 Miniature Theatre

Miniature Theatre

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 The Knight of Black Art

The Knight of Black Art

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

poster The Magic Lantern

The Magic Lantern

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girl…

poster Revolt of the Zombies

Revolt of the Zombies

An international expedition ventures into Cambodia to destroy an ancient formula that transforms men into mindless zombies, but when one scientist discovers the secret, he uses it to create an army of the…

poster The Golden Beetle

The Golden Beetle

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

Rabid

91mn - Horror, Sci-Fi

After a motorcycle accident leaves her severely injured, Rose undergoes experimental plastic surgery that transforms her into a bloodthirsty predator with a vampiric stinger hidden in her armpit. As she f…

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