Georges Méliès filmography

List of films

Miscellaneous films

Later projects

Following the revival of interest in Méliès and his work in the late 1920s, he took part in several film projects:

• On 16 December 1929, a "Gala Méliès" was held at the Salle Pleyel in Paris in honor of the filmmaker. At the end of the program, after a screening of some of Méliès's films from the 1900s, a new film was projected, described by Méliès's granddaughter Madeleine Malthête-Méliès as follows:

Calling upon the method perfected by Méliès twenty-four years earlier … which allowed action to move from the screen to the stage … the Gala organizers asked him to shoot a very short film; we see him suddenly appear on the screen … Lost in the streets of Paris, he is looking everywhere for the Salle Pleyel … on the wall he sees an enormous Gala poster bearing his picture … He dives head first into the poster. Suddenly, the lights go on in the hall [where the film was projected]. The screen rises and uncovers, in the middle of the stage, a frame to which is nailed the poster we have just seen. Suddenly the paper rips apart and Méliès appears in the flesh.^[84]

• In 1933,
  stop substitution effect. It was reused in Brunius's 1939 film Violons d'Ingres.^[85]
• In the autumn of 1937, Méliès began work on a new film, Le Métro fantôme, with a scenario by Jacques Prévert. However, Méliès died on 21 January 1938 and the project was not completed.^[2]

Dubiously attributed films

The following films are listed without cited sources in the 1974 filmography by Paul Hammond^[14] and its revision by John Frazer,^[15] but not in the more complete 2008 filmography by Jacques Malthête.^[13] None of the following films have catalogue numbers, and all of them, if they existed to begin with, are presumed lost.

Misattributed films

The following films by other directors have occasionally been erroneously credited to Méliès:

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