Star Film 477-478

Star Film 476

巨星影业451-452

Star Film 510-511

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon returns, summons some of her servants, and carries off the princess. A rescue party is quickly organized, but the unfortunate captive has been taken to a strange, forbidding realm, from where it will be impossible to rescue her without some special help.

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

提着小棺材的男人以很低的价钱租了一间公寓，他从棺材里搬出了桌椅板凳钢琴和他的家人，此情此景吓坏了房东，迅速叫来警察。男人则把东西重新收回棺材里，跳窗逃跑了

In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant.

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

Georges Méliès (1861-1938), cinema pioneer. A first-person narration traces Méliès' early interests in drawing and magic shows. He builds a studio and constructs his own camera-projector, recruits dancers from the opera and actors from the cinema to make a variety of films that tell whole stories: histories, dramas, documentaries, and ads. He moves from farce into sophisticated comedies, developing cinematic tricks (dissolves, split screens, and double exposure) to create artificially-arranged scenes. Then, the cinema passes him by, and he lives the last years of his life in poverty, selling toys out of a shop near the Montparnasse train station, with Jeanne d'Alcy his star.

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.