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Georges Méliès
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.
Como dirección
Méliès: Tales of Terror
Gala Méliès
Le Voyage de la famille Bourrichon
A la conquista del polo
El caballero de las nieves
Cendrillon ou la Pantoufle merveilleuse
Las aventuras del Barón de Münchhausen
Le vitrail diabolique
El inquilino diabólico
La mariposa fantástica
Las ilusiones fantásticas
El secreto del doctor
Épreuves ou les Malheurs d'un savetier
El faquir de Singapur
Photographie électrique à distance
Pour l'étoile S.V.P.
La Prophétesse de Thèbes
Ce qui arrive à un petit malin de peintre
Anaïc ou le balafré
La Bonne Bergère et la mauvaise princesse
Le Rêve d'un fumeur d'opium
Les malheurs d'un photographe
Le Nouveau seigneur du village
L'Avare
French interpreter policeman
Torches humaines
Lully ou le violon brisé
Le Génie du feu
Conte de la grand-mère et rêve de l'enfant
Why That Actor Was Late
Como intérprete
Satans Sacrilegious Saga
Alcoléa & cie Documentary
Méliès: Tales of Terror
El misterio de Méliès
El hombre que quiso ser Segundo
Méliès, el mago del cine
El viaje extraordinario
La Magie Méliès
Cinematógrafo 1900
Violons d'Ingres
Gala Méliès
A la conquista del polo
El caballero de las nieves
Le vitrail diabolique
El inquilino diabólico
Las ilusiones fantásticas
El secreto del doctor
El faquir de Singapur
Photographie électrique à distance
Épreuves ou les Malheurs d'un savetier
Le Génie des cloches ou le Fils du sonneur
Les infortunes des patineurs
French interpreter policeman
Anaïc ou le balafré
Le Nouveau seigneur du village
Salon de coiffure
Ali Barbouyou et Ali Bouf à l'huile
Satan en prison
La colle universelle
El eclipse: El cortejo entre el Sol y la Luna