Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès Resources

• Adherents.com - ‘The Religious Affiliation of Director Georges Méliès’
• The Georges Méliès Database - includes a listing of his complete Star Films catalogue
• Georges Méliès, le père des trucages cinématographiques - French-only site discussing Méliès’ various innovations
• Jshaide Presents Commentary on 173 Short Films By Georges Melies - attempting something similar to this blog, but with less analysis and more frame grabs
• Méliès: Inspiration and Illusions - excellent overview of Méliès’ career
• Méliès Museum - bilingual in English and Spanish, and with lots of rare memorabilia
• Senses of Cinema - ‘Georges Méliès’, by Darragh O’Donoghue
• Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema - biography by David Robinson
• Wikipedia - biography of Méliès

Early Cinema Resources

• alt.movies.silent - long-running Usenet newsgroup devoted to early cinema
• BFI Screenonline - Méliès is only mentioned in passing, but this encyclopaedia of British film and television history has an extensive early cinema section.
• The Bioscope - Luke McKernan’s early cinema blog
• Earlycinema.com - an introduction to cinema’s first decade
• Criterionforum.org’s Flicker Alley discussion thread
• Flicker Alley - the company behind the release of Georges Méliès - The First Wizard of Cinema 1896-1913
• Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema - an online version of Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan’s book

Reciprocal Links

• The Bioscope
• The Pneumatic Rolling-Sphere Carrier Delusion
• Spectacular Attractions

Complete Films

Youtube includes the following:

• The Black Imp (Le Diable noir, 1905)
• Blue Beard (Barbe-bleu, 1901) - with unsubtitled French narration
• The Conjuror (L’illusionniste fin de siècle, 1899) - review here
• The Cook in Trouble (Sorcellerie culinaire, 1904)
• The Diabolic Tenant (Le Locataire diabolique, 1909)
• The Eclipse, or The Courtship of the Sun and Moon (Eclipse de soleil en pleine lune, 1907)
• Good Glue Sticks (La Colle universelle, 1907)
• The Hilarious Posters (Les Affiches en goguette, 1906) - with unsubtitled French narration
• The Infernal Cake-Walk (Le Cake-walk infernal, 1903)
• The Living Playing Cards (Les Cartes vivantes, 1905) - with unsubtitled French narration
• The Magic Lantern (La Lanterne magique, 1903)
• The Man with the Rubber Head (L’Homme à la tête en caoutchouc, 1901)
• The Melomaniac (Le Mélomane, 1903)
• The Monster (Le Monstre, 1903)
• The One-Man Band (L’Homme orchestre, 1899)
• The Scheming Gambler’s Paradise (Le Tripot clandestin, 1906)
• A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune, 1902)

NB: These are not necessarily the versions discussed on this blog, and a link does not imply endorsement of its copyright status. (The source films are out of copyright, but individual versions may not be, depending on restoration, musical accompaniment, etc.)