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Georges Méliès

Director, Actor, Productor, Escritor, Editor

8 de diciembre de 1861 — 21 de enero de 1938 (76 años)
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.

Conocido por

  • El viaje a la Luna
    El viaje a la Luna1902
  • Sueños de un astrónomo
    Sueños de un astrónomo1898
  • La mansión del diablo
    La mansión del diablo1896
  • El hombre de las mil cabezas
    El hombre de las mil cabezas1898
  • Viaje a través de lo imposible
    Viaje a través de lo imposible1904
  • El hombre de la cabeza de goma
    El hombre de la cabeza de goma1901
  • El caldero infernal
    El caldero infernal1903
  • El hombre orquesta
    El hombre orquesta1900
  • El diablo negro
    El diablo negro1905
  • La pesadilla
    La pesadilla1896
  • Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin
    Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin1896
  • El inquilino diabólico
    El inquilino diabólico1909
  • El reino de las hadas
    El reino de las hadas1903
  • Barba azul
    Barba azul1901
  • El melómano
    El melómano1903
  • Cenicienta
    Cenicienta1899
  • Una noche terrible
    Una noche terrible1896
  • Juana de Arco
    Juana de Arco1900
  • Las cartas vivas
    Las cartas vivas1905
  • Le château hanté
    Le château hanté1897

Filmography

1912
The Conquest of the Pole
1911
The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen
1909
Whimsical Illusions
1909
Le papillon fantastique
1909
The Devilish Tenant
1908
The Indian Sorcerer
1908
Long Distance Wireless Photography
1908
The Genii of Fire
1907
Good Glue Sticks
1907
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1907
Tunneling the English Channel
1907
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
1907
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1907
Rogues' Tricks
1906
The Witch
1906
A Crazy Composer
1906
The Mysterious Retort
1906
The 400 Tricks of the Devil
1906
The Hilarious Posters
1906
Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship
1905
The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
1905
The Enchanted Sedan Chair
1905
The Palace of Arabian Knights
1905
The Black Imp
1905
The Living Playing Cards
1904
An Impossible Voyage
1904
The Mermaid
1904
The Wonderful Living Fan
1904
The Cook in Trouble
1904
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjuror
1904
The Imperceptible Transmutations
1904
The Untamable Whiskers
1904
Decapitation in Turkey
1903
The Damnation of Faust
1903
The Magic Lantern
1903
The Infernal Cauldron
1903
The Kingdom of the Fairies
1903
The Monster
1903
The Music Lover
1903
The Enchanted Well
1903
The Cake-Walk Infernal
1902
Robinson Crusoe
1902
Gulliver's Travels
1902
An Impossible Balancing Feat
1902
A Trip to the Moon
1902
The Human Fly
1902
The Coronation of King Edward VII
1902
The Devil's Money Bags
1902
Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria
1902
The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique
1902
The Dancing Midget
1901
The Dwarf and the Giant
1901
The India Rubber Head
1901
The Gigantic Devil
1901
Hat of Many Surprises
1901
Bluebeard
1901
The Magician and the Human Pump
1901
The Clown with the Portable Body
1901
The Brahmin and the Butterfly
1900
Joan of Arc
1900
The Christmas Dream
1900
The Sign of the Cross
1900
The One-Man Band
1900
The Magic Book
1900
The Fat and the Lean Wrestling Match
1900
Going to Bed with Difficulties
1900
The Triple Conjurer and the Living Head
1900
The Dainaid's Barrel
1899
Cinderella
1899
L'affaire Dreyfus
1899
Summoning the Spirits
1899
A Turn of the Century Illusionist
1899
Haggard's She: The Pillar of Fire
1899
A Mysterious Portrait
1899
Le Chevalier mystère
1898
Four Heads Are Better Than One
1898
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the 'Maine'
1898
Adventures of William Tell
1898
The Astronomer's Dream; or, The Man in the Moon
1898
Panorama from Top of a Moving Train
1898
The Temptation of St. Anthony
1898
The Famous Box Trick
1898
Pygmalion and Galatea
1898
The Magician
1897
The Last Cartridges
1897
The Bewitched Inn
1897
The Surrender of Tournavos
1897
The Devil's Castle
1897
Entre Calais et Douvres
1897
After the Ball, the Bath
1896
The House of the Devil
1896
A Nightmare
1896
Card Party
1896
A Terrible Night
1896
The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin
1896
Post No Bills
1896
Arrivée d'un train gare de Vincennes
1896
A Serpentine Dance