# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georges-melies
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:55:42.012Z

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name: "Georges Méliès"
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description: "He sent a rocket into the moon's eye in 1902, and cinema was never the same. A magician-turned-filmmaker who discovered that editing film was its own kind of conjuring trick."
tagline: "French filmmaker and illusionist (1861–1938)"
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birthDate: "1861-12-08"
deathDate: "1938-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was born on 8 December 1861 in France. He began as a magician and toymaker before turning to film, where he realized the camera could create illusions no stage could match. He built a new language for fantasy and science fiction by inventing techniques that became cinema's foundation: substitution splices, multiple exposures, dissolves, time-lapse, hand-painted color. He was among the first to use storyboards. His "trick films" made him a pioneer, with A Trip to the Moon in 1902 and The Impossible Voyage in 1904 standing as his landmark works. He died on 21 January 1938, decades after showing the world that film was magic you could engineer frame by frame.