La machine a remonté le temps

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.

A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.

A physics teacher turns his small airplane into a time machine to help humanity, but when he sells the technology to a greedy corporation, he must race through time to prevent them from creating a dystopi…

A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.

Felix the Cat can't find anything to eat, so he bribes Father Time to send him back to when life was easier. However, the Stone Age turns out to have its own problems.

A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.

The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine. The mechanical man possess super-human speed and strength. The scientist is killed however…

Geneva (Exhibition 1896): back to the barn.

A shot of a ship that is being unloaded.

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.

Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.

A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his fo…

A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special car, who claims that he can get there in just two hours…

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment. Hopefully one day a complete print will turn up but until…

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wa…

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a demonstration: he starts machines whirring, and projects …

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.