A Trip to the #Moon by Georges Méliès (1902)
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

"…the #film follows a group of #astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants) & return to #Earth with a captive Selenite. Méliès leads an ensemble cast of #French theatrical performers as the main character Professor Barbenfouillis…"

📽️ https://youtube.com/watch?v=DeLjzlFgiEE
#GeorgesMelies #ATripToTheMoon #Time & #Timelessness

122 years ago:
The Triple Headed Lady
Original title: Bouquet d'illusions
A conjuror appears to demonstrate a lady with three heads.
1901-05-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/404864
#TheTripleHeadedLady #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #GeorgesMéliès #Film

115 years ago:
In the Barber Shop (FR)
Original title: Salon de coiffure
One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.
1908-04-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/196653
#IntheBarberShop #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #Movies

119 years ago:
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer (FR)
Original title: Le Thaumaturge chinois
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from behind it. The dog becomes a woman, then a masked man appears. The conjurer sits them each on a ...
1904-04-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/185494
#TchinChaotheChineseConjurer #GeorgesMéliès

119 years ago:
A Moonlight Serenade (FR)
Original title: Au clair de la lune ou Pierrot malheureux
Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and offers him something better.
1904-04-22
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/190728
#AMoonlightSerenade #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #GeorgesMéliès #Film

121 years ago:
A Trip to the Moon (FR)
Original title: Le Voyage dans la Lune
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
1902-04-17
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/775
#ATriptotheMoon #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #GeorgesMéliès #SciFi #Film

"The many special effects in the film were created using substitution splices, multiple exposures, and especially a large amount of stage machinery, such as trapdoors, openings in the scenery, rolling backdrops, pyrotechnics, and a model volcano Méliès had previously used in his film The Eruption of Mount Pelee (1902)." - Wikipedia #TheMerryFrolicsofSatan #SilentFlickerSunday #Georges Méliès #GeorgesMelies

Les Quat'Cents Farces du diable (Georges Méliès, 1906) #SilentFlickerSunday #TheMerryFrolicsofSatan #GeorgesMelies #GeorgesMéliès #silentfilm

Les Quat'Cents Farces du diable (Georges Méliès, 1906) #SilentFlickerSunday #TheMerryFrolicsofSatan #GeorgesMelies #GeorgesMéliès #silentfilm

The Vanishing Lady (Georges Méliès, 1896) #SilentFlickerSunday #GeorgesMelies #silentfilm #film #movie #cinema #GeorgesMéliès #films #movies #TheVanishingLady

119 years ago:
Faust and Marguerite (FR)
Melies second attempt at telling the story of Faust. This time out Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the torture that awaits.
1904-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/196145
#FaustandMarguerite #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #Movies

119 years ago:
A Miracle Under the Inquisition (FR)
Original title: Un miracle sous l’Inquisition
An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.
1904-03-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/196123
#AMiracleUndertheInquisition #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #Film

Le Diable Noir (Georges Méliès, 1905) #SilentFlickerSunday #TheBlackIimp #LeDiableNoir #GeorgesMelies #silentfilm #film #movie #cinema #films #movies

@analgesicsleep Georges Méliès #SilentFlickerSunday #GeorgesMelies #silentfilm

119 years ago:
The Clockmaker's Dream (FR)
Original title: Le Rêve de l’horloger
A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping clock-maker some new kinds of clocks that they know how to make.
1904-03-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/196127
#TheClockmakersDream #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #GeorgesMéliès #ClassicFilm

119 years ago:
The Untameable Whiskers (FR)
Original title: Le Roi du maquillage
The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist. Then, standing in the centre, he causes the living features of his sketch to appear in the plac...
1904-03-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/44324
#TheUntameableWhiskers #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #Movies

119 years ago:
The Fugitive Apparitions (FR)
Original title: Les apparitions fugitives
A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.
1904-03-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/196061
#TheFugitiveApparitions #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Saw this posted by Jon Spira on Twitter. I'm not sure when the 24 hours started but the codes still work at the moment. Pretty good deal if you like boxes full of stuff.

"FLASH SALE - 75% OFF MÉLIÈS WOODEN BOX SET (includes deluxe book, 2 x art prints and one random item) from £80 to £20. 50% OFF DELUXE BOOK from £30 to £15. Codes FLASHBOX and FLASHBOOK at http://Georgesmelies.co.uk 24 Hours only, tell your pals!" #georgesmelies #méliès #scifi

119 years ago:
Every Man His Own Cigar Lighter (FR)
Original title: Un peu de feu s.v.p.
Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.
1904-02-13
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/196034
#EveryManHisOwnCigarLighter #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #GeorgesMéliès #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

119 years ago:
Tit for Tat (FR)
Original title: Un prêté pour un rendu
Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by levitating above Melies and spewing water on him.
1904-02-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/196131
#TitforTat #GeorgesMéliès #SilentCinema #GeorgesMéliès #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film