Georges Méliès

Directing · Born 1861-12-08 in Paris, France

Biography

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,…

Filmography

• A Trip to the Moon as Professeur Barbenfouillis / La Lune
• The Impossible Voyage as Mabouloff
• The Cook in Trouble
• Cinematógrafo 1900 as Self (archive footage)
• El hombre que quiso ser Segundo as Self (archive footage)
• The Untamable Whiskers as Man with whiskers
• The Living Playing Cards as The Magician
• The Infernal Cauldron as Devil
• The One-Man Band as All the members of the orchestra
• The Four Troublesome Heads as Conjurer