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Georges Méliès (1861–1938), a French filmmaker and magician, made a variety of short actuality films between 1896 and 1900. Méliès was established as a magician with his own theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, when he attended the celebrated first public demonstration of the Lumière Brothers' Kinetoscope in December 1895. Unable to purchase a camera from the Lumières, who insisted that the venture had no future, he bought a film projector and some films from the British film experimenter Robert W. Paul and began projecting them at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Meanwhile, Méliès studied the principles on which Paul's projector ran, and in 1896 was able to modify the machine so that it could be used as a makeshift camera. At first, Méliès followed the custom of the time, a

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  • Georges Méliès (1861–1938), a French filmmaker and magician, made a variety of short actuality films between 1896 and 1900. Méliès was established as a magician with his own theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, when he attended the celebrated first public demonstration of the Lumière Brothers' Kinetoscope in December 1895. Unable to purchase a camera from the Lumières, who insisted that the venture had no future, he bought a film projector and some films from the British film experimenter Robert W. Paul and began projecting them at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Meanwhile, Méliès studied the principles on which Paul's projector ran, and in 1896 was able to modify the machine so that it could be used as a makeshift camera. At first, Méliès followed the custom of the time, and the example memorably set by the pioneering Lumières, by producing actuality films—brief "slice of life" incidents made by preparing naturalistic scenes for the camera or by filming events of the day. These "cityscapes, scenic views, and domestic vignettes" closely followed the model already set by the Lumières and their salaried operators, who had already been sent to various points abroad to publicize the Lumière camera and bring home actualities filmed in foreign climes. All told, Méliès filmed 93 films, or 18% of his entire output, outdoors as actuality footage. However, Méliès was also interested in expanding his line of films to include less common genres. His second film, Conjuring, captured a theatrical magic act on film; his sixth, Watering the Flowers, moved into comedy, remaking the Lumière's influential L'Arroseur Arrosé. Following his discovery of the substitution splice in 1896, Méliès moved further into fiction and trick films, building his own studio on his property in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis to allow for the filming of his theatrically inspired, storytelling-based scènes composées—"artificially arranged scenes." His last nonfiction work was the seventeen-part Paris Exposition, 1900 film series. Because of his move away from actualities into fiction, he is generally regarded as the first person to recognize the potential of narrative film. In an advertisement, Méliès proudly described the difference between his innovative theatrical films and the actualities still being made by his contemporaries: "these fantastic and artistic films reproduce stage scenes and create a new genre entirely different from the ordinary cinematographic views of real people and real streets." (en)
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  • Place de la Bastille (en)
  • Lost (en)
  • Unknown (en)
  • Place de la Concorde (en)
  • Dancing Girls (en)
  • Market Day (en)
  • Boulevard des Italiens (en)
  • A Merry-go-Round (en)
  • Arrival of a Train (Joinville Station) (en)
  • Arrival of a Train at Vincennes Station (en)
  • Automobiles Starting on a Race (en)
  • Boat Leaving the Harbor of Trouville (en)
  • Bois de Boulogne (en)
  • Children Playing on the Beach (en)
  • Coronation of a Village Maiden (en)
  • Gipsies at Home (en)
  • Officers of French Army Leaving Service (en)
  • Place Saint-Augustin (en)
  • Playing Cards (en)
  • Sea Bathing (en)
  • Sea Breaking on the Rocks (en)
  • Steamboats on River Seine (en)
  • The Bivouac (en)
  • The Czar and His Cortège Going to Versailles (en)
  • The Czar's Cortège in the Bois de Boulogne (en)
  • The Potter's Cart (en)
  • The Washerwomen (en)
  • Threshing-Machine Worked by Power (en)
  • Boxing Match (en)
  • A Farm Yard (en)
  • A Lively Cock-Fight , A Lively Cock Fight (en)
  • A Potterymaker (en)
  • Academy for Young Ladies (en)
  • Battle With Confetti (en)
  • Beach and Pier at Trouville (en)
  • Blacksmith in His Workshop (en)
  • Breaking up of the Territorial Army (en)
  • Closing Hours at Vibert's Perfume Factory (en)
  • Fencing at the Joinville School (en)
  • Firemen on Parade (en)
  • French Officers' Meeting (en)
  • French Regiment Going to the Parade (en)
  • Funeral of Felix Faure (en)
  • Gardener Burning Weeds (en)
  • Mid-Lent Procession in Paris (en)
  • Military Apprentices (en)
  • Panorama from Top of Moving Train (en)
  • Panorama of River Seine (en)
  • Paris Exhibition, 1900 (en)
  • Passengers Landing at Harbor of Granville (en)
  • Place du Théâtre-Français (en)
  • Return to the Barracks (en)
  • Sacks Up! (en)
  • Shooting the Chutes (en)
  • Smarter Than the Teacher (en)
  • St. Lazare Railroad Station (en)
  • Steamer Entering the Harbor of Jersey (en)
  • Survives (en)
  • The Beach at Villers in a Gale (en)
  • The Docks at Marseilles (en)
  • The Mardi Gras Procession (en)
  • The Pier at Tréport During a Storm (en)
  • Tide Rising Over the Breakwater (en)
  • Towing a Boat on the River (en)
  • Unloading the Boat (en)
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  • Place de la Bastille (en)
  • Place de la Concorde (en)
  • Boulevard des Italiens (en)
  • Les Forgerons (en)
  • La Gare Saint-Lazare (en)
  • Arrivée d'un train (gare de Joinville) (en)
  • Baignade en mer (en)
  • Barque sortant du port de Trouville (en)
  • Bateaux-Mouches sur la Seine (en)
  • Batteuse à vapeur (en)
  • Bois de Boulogne (en)
  • Campement de bohémiens (en)
  • Cortège du Tzar allant à Versailles (en)
  • Cortège du Tzar au Bois de Boulogne (en)
  • Couronnement de la rosière (en)
  • Déchargement de bateaux (en)
  • Départ des automobiles (en)
  • Départ des officiers (en)
  • Effet de mer sur les rochers (en)
  • Enfants jouant sur la plage (en)
  • Les Blanchisseuses (en)
  • La Voiture du potier (en)
  • Le Bivouac (en)
  • Les Chevaux de bois (en)
  • Panorama pris d'un train en marche (en)
  • Place Saint-Augustin (en)
  • Arrivée d'un train (en)
  • Assaut d'escrime (en)
  • Bataille de confettis (en)
  • Combat de coqs (en)
  • Cortège de la Mi-Carême (en)
  • Cortège du Bœuf gras, boulevard des Italiens (en)
  • Danseuses au Jardin de Paris (en)
  • Débarquement des voyageurs, port de Granville (en)
  • Défilé des pompiers (en)
  • Funérailles de Félix Faure (en)
  • Jardinier brûlant des herbes (en)
  • Jetée et plage de Trouville (en)
  • Jour de marché à Trouville (en)
  • Le Régiment (en)
  • Les Apprentis militaires (en)
  • Les Haleurs de bateaux (en)
  • Les Quais à Marseille (en)
  • Libération des territoriaux (en)
  • Marée montante sur brise-lames (en)
  • Match de boxe (en)
  • Montagnes russes nautiques (en)
  • Panorama de la Seine (en)
  • Place du Théâtre-Français (en)
  • Plage de Villers par gros temps (en)
  • Plus fort que le maître (en)
  • Retour au cantonnement (en)
  • Réunion d'officiers (en)
  • Sac au dos! (en)
  • Sortie des ateliers Vibert (en)
  • Tempête sur la jetée du Tréport (en)
  • Tourneur en poterie (en)
  • Un lycée de jeunes filles (en)
  • Une cour de ferme (en)
  • Une partie de cartes (en)
  • Vues spéciales de l'Exposition de 1900 (en)
  • Entrée du paquebot Victoria dans le port de Jersey (en)
  • Le Cortège du Bœuf gras passant place de la Concorde (en)
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  • Presumably shows women cleaning clothes. Washerwomen were a popular subject in art. (en)
  • Méliès's first film, filmed in his garden in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis. See the main article for more information. (en)
  • Presumably shows the Place de la Concorde in Paris on Mardi Gras. (en)
  • Presumably filmed at the military school in Joinville-le-Pont. (en)
  • Probably inspired by the Lumière Brothers' film L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat. (en)
  • Filmed in Paris on Laetare Sunday . (en)
  • Filmed in Paris. Presumably shows the River Seine. (en)
  • No further information available. (en)
  • Part of the military series (en)
  • Presumably filmed in the Bois de Boulogne. (en)
  • Presumably shows a cockfight. (en)
  • Presumably shows a farmyard. (en)
  • Presumably shows a gardener. (en)
  • Presumably shows a merry-go-round. (en)
  • Presumably shows a roller coaster . (en)
  • Presumably shows members of a fire department. (en)
  • Presumably shows the Gare Saint-Lazare. (en)
  • Presumably shows the Place Saint-Augustin. (en)
  • Presumably shows the Place de la Concorde. (en)
  • Probably filmed in Paris. (en)
  • Presumably shows the Boulevard des Italiens in Paris. (en)
  • Presumably shows the Place du Théâtre-Français in Paris. (en)
  • Presumably filmed in Villers. For more information, see film [[#ep14 (en)
  • Survives in flipbook form. Presumably filmed in Joinville-le-Pont. See the main article for more information. (en)
  • Presumably filmed in Granville, Manche. For more information, see film [[#ep201 (en)
  • Presumably shows the Place de la Bastille in Paris. (en)
  • Presumably shows an artisan using a potter's wheel. (en)
  • Filmed on a train on the Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture, passing the station Bel-Air-Ceinture. Also known as Panorama from Top of a Moving Train. (en)
  • Filmed in Paris. Presumably shows the hearse and attending troops at the funeral of Félix Faure, President of France. (en)
  • Also known as Effets de mer sur les rochers. For more information, see film [[#ep14 (en)
  • Presumably filmed in Le Tréport. For more information, see film [[#ep14 (en)
  • Presumably shows one or more steam-powered threshing machines. Also known as Threshing Machines Worked by Power. (en)
  • Advertised as if filmed in Marseilles, but almost certainly filmed on the coast of Normandy. For more information, see film [[#ep14 (en)
  • No further information available. For more information, see film [[#ep14 (en)
  • Presumably filmed in Trouville-sur-Mer. For more information, see film [[#ep14 (en)
  • Probably inspired by a Lumière Brothers film with the same title and subject. No further information available. (en)
  • Probably inspired by the 1895 Lumière Brothers film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory. No further information available. (en)
  • Presumably filmed in Jersey. For more information, see film [[#ep201 (en)
  • Two short actualities filmed on the Seine, showing construction of buildings for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. See Paris Exposition, 1900 (film series): Related films for more information. (en)
  • Probably inspired by an 1895 Lumière Brothers film featuring a boat in the harbor of La Ciotat. Presumably filmed in Trouville-sur-Mer. For more information, see film [[#ep14 (en)
  • Presumably shows the Boulevard des Italiens in Paris on Mardi Gras. Note that the English-language catalogue entry for the film erroneously dated it to the following year, 1898. (en)
  • A series of seventeen actualities, serving as a documentary record of the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. See the main article for more information. (en)
  • Probably filmed on the coast of Normandy. For more information, see film [[#ep14 (en)
  • Presumably shows Nicholas II of Russia and his retinue in the Bois de Boulogne. For more information, see film [[#ep48 (en)
  • Presumably filmed in Le Havre during Méliès's summer vacation. For more information, see film [[#ep14 (en)
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  • Georges Méliès (1861–1938), a French filmmaker and magician, made a variety of short actuality films between 1896 and 1900. Méliès was established as a magician with his own theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, when he attended the celebrated first public demonstration of the Lumière Brothers' Kinetoscope in December 1895. Unable to purchase a camera from the Lumières, who insisted that the venture had no future, he bought a film projector and some films from the British film experimenter Robert W. Paul and began projecting them at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Meanwhile, Méliès studied the principles on which Paul's projector ran, and in 1896 was able to modify the machine so that it could be used as a makeshift camera. At first, Méliès followed the custom of the time, a (en)
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  • List of actuality films by Georges Méliès (en)
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