El profesor Barbenfouillis y cinco de sus colegas de la Academia de Astronomía viajan a la Luna a bordo de un cohete propulsado por un cañón gigante. Una vez sobre la superficie lunar, los audaces exploradores afrontan los muchos peligros que ocultan las cuevas del misterioso satélite.
Adaptación de "Cenicienta", el clásico cuento de hadas. Uno de los primeros argumentos estructurados en la historia del cine. (FILMAFFINITY)
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
Inspired by the writings of writer Fritz Fanon, who believed that a colonial population could only reach freedom by declaring violence towards their occupiers, Cavallone’s tale sees a white photographer who seduces a black model. A doctor then arrives on the scene, and Schurer falls for his charms.
Considerada la primera película de terror de la historia del cine. Se inicia cuando un vampiro llega a un castillo ancestral y se transforma en el propio Mefistófeles.
The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad in tights. A barrel is then introduced and the girl enters one end.
El director de una banda musical demuestra una forma poco corriente de escribir música.
Un hombre realiza una exhibición en la cual juega con sus múltiples cabezas.
A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.
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 angelic woman emerges from the pot. The devil and the pot vanish as the woman performs a dance, waving about her diaphanous sleeves until she conjures forth another fire, then she rises amongst the smoke into the air.
Una mujer se quita su ropa para tomar un baño, con la ayuda de una sirvienta. Se trata de uno de los primeros films con desnudez más o menos explícita de la historia del cine. (FILMAFFINITY)
In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead of containing the magician a lively clown steps forth who further mystifies the audience by causing the box to disappear, and in its place is seen a fully laid table with a smoking dinner, to which the clown applies himself. The table, however, suddenly disappears much to the astonishment of the clown, who is confronted by the magician in the garb of Mephistopheles. This he suddenly changes to that of a sculptor, and in the background is seen a pedestal with the bust of a young lady, which comes to life as the sculptor applies the mallet and chisel.
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.
En la corte real, un príncipe está presentando a la princesa con la que se ha comprometido cuando de repente aparece una bruja. Aunque es expulsada, la bruja regresa pronto, convoca a algunos de sus sirvientes y se lleva a la princesa. Se organiza rápidamente un grupo de rescate, pero la desafortunada cautiva ha sido llevada a un reino extraño y amenazante, desde donde será imposible rescatarla sin alguna ayuda especial.
King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.
In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return to his head and shoulders as soon as he takes them off. The chairs, his umbrella, his hat, etc., fly away in different directions and by various methods. (Star Film Catalog)
La versión de Georges Méliès sobre el proceso de Juana de Arco.
El inquilino diabólico es una cortometraje mudo de la productora francesa Star Film del año 1909, dirigida por Georges Méliès. Se encuentra numerada como la n° 1495–1501 en sus catálogos.En "El inquilino diabólico" un hombre alquila un apartamento sin muebles y de su bolsa hace salir todo el mobiliario. En un instante él y su familia se encontrarán cómodamente instalados. Todo funciona a la perfección hasta el día de pago. La película fue coloreada fotograma a fotograma.
Cuenta en forma macabra el famoso cuento de Barba azul.
La paz nocturna de un convento es alterada con la aparición del demonio.