Georges Méliès
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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 Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896).
In early 1909 Méliès stopped making films to protest Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Parents Company monopoly, and presided over the first meeting of the International Filmmakers Congress in Paris. Further financial hardships created by his opposition to Edison and diminishing influence, Méliès disappeared from public life. By the mid-1920s he made a meager living as a candy and toy salesma in Paris, with the assistance of funds collected by other filmmakers. Although he was recognized for his contributions in cinema, Méliès spent most of his later years in poverty before being accepted into La Maison du Retraite du Cinéma, the film industry's retirement home in Orly.
Detrás de Cámaras
Viaje a la luna
Director, Productor, Guionista, Diseño de Producción, Editor
Une nuit terrible
Escritor, Productor, Diseño de Producción, Director
Le Savant et le Chimpanzé
Director
ORG
Thanks
Le Voyage à travers l'impossible
Productor, Director, Guionista, Diseño de Producción
Cendrillon
Productor, Diseño de Producción, Director
Une partie de cartes
Director, Escritor
Le manoir du diable
Director, Productor, Diseño de Producción, Escritor
Le rêve de Noël
Director
Une Nuit Terrible (Remake)
Director
La lune à un mètre
Director, Editor, Production Designer, Special Effects, Guionista, Productor
Le Rêve du maître de ballet
Director
La Sirène
Director
Le Revenant
Director
Le déshabillage impossible
Director
Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé
Productor, Diseño de Producción, Guionista, Director
Combat naval en Grèce
Director
Deux Cents Mille Lieues sous les mers
Director
L'Omnibus des toqués blancs et noirs
Director
La Légende de Rip Van Winckle
Diseño de Producción, Productor, Guionista, Director
Le Tonnerre de Jupiter
Director
Le Locataire Diabolique
Diseño de Producción, Productor, Guionista, Director
Le Palais des mille et une nuits
Director, Editor, Diseño de Producción, Productor
Barbe-bleue
Adaptation, Diseño de Producción, Productor, Director
L'hallucination de l'alchimiste
Director
Les illusions fantaisistes
Diseño de Producción, Guionista, Productor, Director
Une indigestion
Director
Les Incendiaires
Director
L’Affaire Dreyfus, Mise aux fers de Dreyfus
Director
Un homme de têtes
Director, Productor, Special Effects, Editor
Como Actor/Actriz
Viaje a la luna
Professeur Barbenfouillis / La Lune
Une nuit terrible
L'homme qui essaie de dormir
Le Voyage extraordinaire
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Le Voyage à travers l'impossible
Mabouloff
Cendrillon
le gnome de la pendule / le suisse à l'entrée de l'église
Une partie de cartes
Un joueur de cartes
Le manoir du diable
Mephistopheles
Le rêve de Noël
Beggar
La lune à un mètre
Astronomer
Le Rêve du maître de ballet
La Sirène
Le Revenant
Le déshabillage impossible
The Man
Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé
Robinson Crusoé
Combat naval en Grèce
The Captain
Deux Cents Mille Lieues sous les mers
La Légende de Rip Van Winckle
Rip Van Winkle
Le Tonnerre de Jupiter
Le Locataire Diabolique
Le locataire diabolique
Le Palais des mille et une nuits
The Sorcerer Khalafar (uncredited)
Barbe-bleue
Barbe-bleue
Les illusions fantaisistes
The Magician
Une indigestion
Doctor
Les Incendiaires
Un homme de têtes
Conjurer
Le livre magique
The Magician
Le Rêve de l’horloger
L'île de Calypso: Ulysse et le géant Polyphème
Ulysses (uncredited)
La Lanterne magique
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
Self (archive footage)