After this, Georges Méliès made many single shot films using this trick over the next couple of years.

For examples of many in-camera special effects, see the work of early filmmaker Georges Méliès.

His film, Hugo included a key scene in which many of film pioneer Georges Méliès ' silent films are melted down and the raw material recycled as shoes ; this was seen by many movie critics as " a passionate brief for film preservation wrapped in a fanciful tale of childhood intrigue and adventure.

Lyrically, his movement away from the constraints of chanson moved many others-including Miossec, Holden and Arman Méliès – by showing them that it was possible to make music that reflected their tastes and feelings using French.

* 1896-French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing a lot of early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography.

* In France, magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effect techniques, including stop motion.

Several of his films, among them The Enchanted Drawing ( 1900 ) and Humorous Phases of Funny Faces ( 1906 ) were film versions of Blackton's " lightning artist " routine, and utilized modified versions of Méliès ' early stop-motion animation techniques to make a series of blackboard drawings appear to move and reshape themselves.

Pre-digital compositing techniques, however, go back as far as the trick films of Georges Méliès in the late 19th century ; and some are still in use.

The earliest cinematic version was a short, filmed in 1908 by the legendary and influential magician-cum-director, Georges Méliès.

This film was among those exported to Europe with the first Kinetoscope machines in 1895, and was seen by Georges Méliès, who was putting on magic shows in his Theatre Robert-Houdin in Paris at the time.

* Cléopâtre ( 1899 film ), a French short film written and directed by Georges Méliès

French trick film maestro Georges Méliès used true stop motion to produce moving title-card letters for one of his short films, but never exploited the process for any of his other films.

Jeanne d ' Arc is a short, silent, medieval film about Joan of Arc, written and directed by Georges Méliès.

One such short was Le Voyage dans la Lune, created by Georges Méliès in 1902.

Most early filmmakers — such as Thomas Edison, Auguste and Louis Lumière and Georges Méliès — tended not to use close-ups and preferred to frame their subjects in long shots.

The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by the film pioneer Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the best known being Le Manoir du diable ( aka, The Haunted Castle, 1896 ) which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film.

Romeo and Juliet was first filmed in the silent era, by Georges Méliès, although his film is now lost.

Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality with the cinematograph, the prolific Méliès is sometimes referred to as the " Cinemagician.

Fixing the " mechanical man " automaton, created by the character of George Méliès, is the life's mission for the central character Hugo in the 2011 film " Hugo ".

George Méliès is known as the father of the jump cut as a result of having discovered it accidentally, and then using it to simulate magical tricks ; however, he tried to make the cut appear seamless to complement his illusions.

The " animation " here is of the stop-action variety ( the camera is stopped, a single change is made, and the camera is then started again ) first used by Méliès and others.

When he had fixed the camera, a hearse happened to be passing by just as Méliès restarted rolling the film, his end result was that he had managed to make a bus transform into a hearse, which is a camera effect called a stop trick.

The last episode of the series ( narrated by Blythe Danner — this is the only episode which Hanks does not introduce, although he does appear in it ) begins with a look at the making of Georges Méliès ' film based upon the book.

The Impossible Voyage ( French: Voyage à travers l ' impossible ) is a 1904 silent film ( produced by Star Film, France ) by pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès.

The film's run time is about 24 minutes ( about five times the length of the average film at that time ), and was probably inspired by Méliès ' successful earlier film A Trip to the Moon.

Méliès ’ The Impossible Voyage ( 1904 ) is a particular example of this.

Georges Méliès first used superimposition on a dark background in la Caverne maudite ( The Cave of the Demons ) made a couple of months later in 1898, and then elaborated it further with multiple superimpositions in the one shot in l ' Homme de têtes ( The Troublesome Heads ).

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

Méliès, himself a magician but best known to history as one of the greatest early innovators of film making, later presented his first movies there.

* 1896-Escamotage d ' une dame chez Robert-Houdin ( Retraction of a lady at the house of Robert-Houdin ), film of George Méliès, first film with special effects

In 1902, Georges Méliès released Le Voyage dans la Lune, generally considered the first science fiction film, and a film that used early trick photography to depict a spacecraft's journey to the moon.

The novel ( along with Wells ' The First Men in the Moon ) inspired the first science fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, made in 1902 by Georges Méliès.

As a teenager, Reiniger fell in love with cinema, first with the films of Georges Méliès for their special effects, then the films of actor and director Paul Wegener, known today for The Golem ( 1920 ).

Georges Méliès ; creator of special effect in motion pictures, was one of the first people to use animation with his technique.

It was probably made before the first Méliès fiction film, but after the Lumière brothers ' L ' Arroseur Arrosé.

Many film historians have accepted that La Fée aux Choux was made in April 1896, just a month or two before Méliès made his first fiction film.

In 1897, Georges Méliès established the first cinema studio on a rooftop property in Montreuil, near Paris.

The first use of time-lapse photography in a feature film was in Georges Méliès ' motion picture Carrefour De L ' Opera ( 1897 ).

La Fontaine's fable lent itself to animated film features from early on, the first being a version by George Méliès in France in 1897.

By 1898 Georges Méliès was the largest producer of fiction films in France, and from this point onwards his output was almost entirely films featuring trick effects, which were very successful in all markets.

The standard pattern for early film studios was provided by the studio which Georges Méliès had built in 1897.

In 1903 there was a substantial increase in the number of women film several minutes long unclear, as a result of the great popularity of Georges Méliès ’ le Voyage dans la lune ( A Trip to the Moon ), which came out in early 1902, though such films were still a very minor part of production.

In 1902 the Lumières abandoned everything but the production of film stock, leaving Méliès as the weakest player of the remaining three.

* December 8 – Georges Méliès, French film director ( d. 1938 )

* The French film director Georges Méliès ( 1861 – 1938 ) directed the 1899 film Le Miroir de Cagliostro.

* Georges Méliès creates the film A Trip to the Moon ( Le Voyage dans la Lune ), which in one scene features the animated human face of the moon being struck in the eye by a rocket.