Georges Méliès

🎂 Data nașterii: 1861-12-08 (Paris, France)

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, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician". Two of his best-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). Both stories involve strange, surreal voyages, somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. Méliès was also an early pioneer of horror cinema, which can be traced back to his Le Manoir du diable (1896). In early 1909 Méliès stopped making films to protest Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Parents Company monopoly, and presided over the first meeting of the International Filmmakers Congress in Paris. Further financial hardships created by his opposition to Edison and diminishing influence, Méliès disappeared from public life. By the mid-1920s he made a meager living as a candy and toy salesma in Paris, with the assistance of funds collected by other filmmakers. Although he was recognized for his contributions in cinema, Méliès spent most of his later years in poverty before being accepted into La Maison du Retraite du Cinéma, the film industry's retirement home in Orly.

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Georges Méliès

Filme în care a jucat

Călătorie pe Lună

Le Voyage à travers l'impossible

Sorcellerie culinaire

Cinematógrafo 1900

El hombre que quiso ser Segundo

Le Roi du maquillage

Les Cartes vivantes

Le Chaudron infernal

L'homme orchestre

Un homme de têtes

Un bon lit

Jeanne d'Arc

Faust et Marguerite

Une nuit terrible

Le château hanté

Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin

La lune à un mètre

Le Fakir de Singapour

Cendrillon

À la conquête du pôle

Le Juif errant

Le manoir du diable

The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès

Ali Barbouyou et Ali Bouf à l'huile

Les Incendiaires

Le Merveilleux éventail vivant

Le Diable noir

Le Monstre

La Tentation de Saint-Antoine

Le Dirigeable fantastique

Le Locataire diabolique

L'Homme à la tête de caoutchouc

Le diable au couvent

La Sirène

Photographie électrique à distance

L'Illusionniste fin-de-siècle

Les quatre cents farces du diable

Nouvelles luttes extravagantes

Les Affiches en goguette

L'affaire Dreyfus

Le Cake-Walk Infernal

Le Rêve de l’horloger

Le Mélomane

Évocation spirite

Illusions funambulesques

Le Thaumaturge chinois

La pyramide de Triboulet

Le Chapeau à surprises

Le déshabillage impossible

Spiritisme abracadabrant

Le Tonnerre de Jupiter

Le Bourreau turc

L'Auberge ensorcelée

Les Illusions fantaisistes

Le Revenant

Le Rêve du maître de ballet

Bob Kick, l’enfant terrible

L'Œuf du sorcier ou L'Œuf magique prolifique

Le vitrail diabolique

Satan en prison

Méliès: Tales of Terror

Hydrothérapie fantastique

Nain et géant

L’Oracle de Delphes

Au clair de la lune ou Pierrot malheureux

L'Antre des esprits

Le Baquet de Mesmer

L'Alchimiste Parafaragamus ou la Cornue infernale

Une partie de cartes

L'Équilibre impossible

Un peu de feu s.v.p.

Barbe-bleue

La Fée Carabosse

Faust aux enfers

Les Trésors de Satan

Le Diable géant ou Le miracle de la madonne

Le chevalier mystère

L'Artiste et le mannequin