Yahoo: Another Lost Film by ‘Cinemagician’ Georges Méliès Discovered After 128 Years Missing
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Georges Méliès
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was a French filmmaker, actor, magician, and toymaker. He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres. Méliès rose to prominence creating "trick films" and became well known for his innovative use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures,…
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entertainment · French filmmaker and illusionist (1861–1938) · actor · film director · animator · film editor · screenwriter · magician · filmmaker · film producer · cinematographer · film actor · also Georges Méliès, Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, the Cinemagician, Georges Melies, George Méliès, Marie-Georges-Jean Melies
Born 8 December 1861 · Died 21 January 1938 · Q152272
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: Long-lost 'robot' film by pioneering 19th-century auteur Georges Méliès discovered and restored
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2025· 1 entry
Christian Clavier linked Méliès's special effects to modern uses of artificial intelligence in an interview with Brut , an idea echoed by duanju
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2018· 5 entries
The Independent: Georges Méliès: France's magician of early cinema who sent a rocket (in)to the moon
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The Mirror: Google Doodle today celebrates Georges Méliès - French 'Cinemagician' who pioneered film special effects
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Newsweek: Georges Méliès Facts: Illusionist Honored With First Virtual Reality Google Doodle
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Mental Floss: 5 Things You Might Not Know About Georges Méliès
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Time: The First Virtual Reality Google Doodle Honors French Filmmaker Georges Méliès
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2015).
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2010· 1 entry
Gizmodo: Georges Méliès’ ice giant is still cinema’s coolest monster, almost 100 years later
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1938· 2 entries
Died 1938-01-21.
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Career landmark: funeral.
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1936· 1 entry
Expressed gratitude to Méliès and his fellow pioneer Émile Cohl, saying they "discovered the means of placing poetry within the reach of the man in the street
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1935· 1 entry
With René Clair, and in 1936, they rented an abandoned building on the property of the Orly retirement home to store their collection of film prints
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1932· 1 entry
The Cinema Society arranged a place for Méliès, his granddaughter Madeleine, and Jeanne d'Alcy at La Maison de Retraite du Cinéma, the film industry's retirement home in Orly
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1926· 1 entry
Spurred on by Coissac's book, the magazine Ciné-Journal located Méliès, now working at the Gare Montparnasse, and commissioned a memoir from him
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1924· 1 entry
The journalist Georges-Michel Coissac tracked him down and interviewed him for a book on cinema history
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1917· 1 entry
The French Army turned the main studio building at his Montreuil property into a hospital for wounded soldiers
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1913· 1 entry
Had nothing with which to cover his indebtedness to that company
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1911· 1 entry
Were Baron Munchausen's Dream and The Diabolical Church Window
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1910· 2 entries
Méliès temporarily stopped making films because he preferred to create a big magic show Les Fantômes du Nil, and he went on an expansive tour in Europe and North Africa
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Gaston established the Star Film Ranch, a studio in San Antonio, Texas, where he began to produce Westerns
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1909· 2 entries
The congress made important decisions regarding film leasing, and adoption of a single type of film perforation, in order to thwart Edison and the MPPC
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Méliès presided over the "Congrès International des éditeurs de films" in Paris
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1908· 1 entry
Thomas Edison created the Motion Picture Patents Company as a way to control the film industry in the United States and Europe
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1907· 1 entry
Méliès created three new illusions for the stage and performed them at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin, while he continued producing a steady stream of films, including Under the Seas, and a short version of Shakespeare's Haml
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1906· 1 entry
His output included an updated, comedic adaptation of the Faust legend The Merry Frolics of Satan and The Witch
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1905· 1 entry
Victor de Cottens asked Méliès to collaborate with him on The Merry Deeds of Satan, a theatrical revue for the Théâtre du Châtelet
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1904· 1 entry
Folies Bergère director Victor de Cottens invited Méliès to create a special effects film to be included in his theatre's revue
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1903· 1 entry
Méliès made The Kingdom of the Fairies, which film critic Jean Mitry has called "undoubtedly Méliès's best film, and in any case the most intensely poetic"
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1902· 2 entries
Continued with his three other major productions of that year
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Méliès began to experiment with camera movement to create the illusion of a character changing size
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1901· 1 entry
Méliès continued producing successful films and was at the peak of his popularity
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1900· 2 entries
The trade union Chambre Syndicale des Editeurs Cinématographiques as a way to defend themselves in foreign markets
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Méliès made numerous films, including the 13-minute-long Joan of Arc
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1899· 1 entry
As he continued to experiment with special effects, for example in the early horror film Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb
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1897· 1 entry
Méliès was commissioned by the popular singer Paulus to make films of his performances
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1885· 1 entry
With a new desire: to study painting at the École des Beaux-Arts
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1880· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, bachelor's degree (1880).
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1861· 1 entry
Born 1861-12-08.
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1843· 1 entry
As a shoemaker and began working at a boot factory, where he met Méliès's mother
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