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Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
The Conquest of the PoleFilm, Director, Writer1909
The Diabolic TenantFilm, Director, Writer1907
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and MoonFilm, Director1906
The Merry Frolics of SatanFilm, Director, Writer1905
The Black ImpFilm, Director, Producer1904
The Impossible VoyageFilm, Director, Writer1902
A Trip to the MoonFilm, Director, Writer1901
BluebeardFilm, Director, Writer1900
Going to Bed Under DifficultiesFilm, Director1899
An Up-to-Date ConjurerFilm, Director1898
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"Film, Director1897
After the BallFilm, Director1896
A NightmareFilm, Director, Producer1861Born8 December 1861Also in Deutsch
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TVThe Extraordinary VoyageTPThe Conquest of the PoleTTThe Diabolic TenantTMThe Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and MoonTSThe Merry Frolics of Satan
TWThe WitchTIThe Black Imp
TCThe Living Playing CardsTVThe Impossible Voyage
TMThe Mermaid
TFThe Kingdom of the Fairies
TCThe Infernal Cauldron
TMThe Melomaniac
TMThe Monster
TWThe Infernal Cake-WalkAMA Trip to the Moon
GGGulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
THThe Man with the Rubber HeadBLBluebeard
TDThe Astronomer's Dream
TBThe One-Man Band
JAJoan of Arc
TMThe Fat and Lean Wrestling MatchGDGoing to Bed Under Difficulties
CICinderella
TCThe Devil in a Convent
TFThe Pillar of FireACAn Up-to-Date Conjurer
THThe Four Troublesome HeadsDMDivers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
TAThe Temptation of St. Anthony
TMThe MagicianABAfter the Ball
LHLe château hanté
TIThe Bewitched Inn
LDLe manoir du diable
TLThe Vanishing LadyANA Nightmare
ANA Terrible Night
PCPlaying Cards615 credits on file
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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.
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