Prof. Barbenfouillis başkanlığında bir grup astronom Ay'a gitmek üzere planlar yaparlar. Sonuçta dev bir toptan gönderilen mermi şeklindeki uzay gemileri ile hedeflerine ulaşırlar. Ancak burada Aylılar tarafından kaçırılıp Ay kralının sarayına götürülürler... George Méliès'in çoğu Jules Verne'e dayanarak yaptığı yüzlerce kısa filmden bu en ünlüsü, -açıkça H.G.Wells'in First Men in the Moon'undan da esinlenerek- sinema tarihinin ilk bilim kurgu filmi olarak haklı bir üne sahiptir. Méliès'in filmleri janra ait klişelerin tümüne sahiptir neredeyse; çılgın bilim adamları, dehşet verici icatlar, roketler vs vs.. Roketin Ay'a varışını simgeleyen sempatik sekans, kuşkusuz sinemanın en bilinen sahnelerinden birine vesile olmuştur.
Cinderella veya Cendrillon 1899 yılı Fransa yapımı sessiz film. Filmin yönetmenliğini Georges Méliès üstlenmiştir. Film, Cinderella masalını konu edinmektedir. Sinema tarihinin ilk uyarlamalarındandır. Cinderella adlı kıza üvey annesi ve üvey kız kardeşleri kötü davranmaktadır. Bir iyilik perisi ona yardım edecek ve bir prensle birlikte olacaktır.
1904 yılı Fransa yapımı sessiz film. Filmin yönetmenliğini Georges Méliès üstlenmiştir. Film, Jules Verne'in Voyage à travers l'impossible adlı romanından uyarlanmıştır.
A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
Bir ortaçağ şatosunun iç mekanında uçan bir yarasanın Mephisto'ya dönüşmesini ve onun da çeşitli hayaletler, cadılar vs. çağırmasını gösteren ve Türkçe adı Şeytanın Şatosu olan 'Le manoir du diable' sinema tarihinin ilk korku filmidir. Filmin yönetmeni Georges Melies, Mephistopheles adlı şeytanı canlandırmıştır
One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.
A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.
Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon returns, summons some of her servants, and carries off the princess. A rescue party is quickly organized, but the unfortunate captive has been taken to a strange, forbidding realm, from where it will be impossible to rescue her without some special help.
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.
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.
Kuzey Kutbunun Keşfi, 1912 yılı Fransa yapımı sessiz filmin yönetmenliğini Georges Méliès üstlenmiştir. Jules Verne'in Kaptan Hatteras'ın Maceraları adlı romanının uyarlaması olan bilimkurgu filmi, Kuzey Kutbununun keşfi için yarışan bir grup baloncuyu anlatıyordu.
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.
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)
A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and saves the beautiful princess.
Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic story. Color was rare in 1902 (and many years after) as non-tinted color has to be hand painted on the film; this was an arduous task. Also notable is the film's short running time of approximately five minutes. Much of the original work is not covered, but viewers were expected to be familiar with the story, and enjoy the filmed highlights. There are a couple of scenes missing; according to contemporary reports, Gulliver's shipwreck was certainly included. You can do a lot in a few minutes, as Mr. Méliès includes a re-make of his own "Une partie de cartes" (1896), which already looked like something previously covered by the Lumière Brothers.
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.