Miraculous

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes to life and comes out of the frame and imitates his eve…

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

John Gary, a hotel owner, who wants to revitalize his business. After reading about a reported mermaid sighting, he has his daughter Ethel pose as a mermaid and gets a newspaper reporter to witness and ph…

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

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

Marianna s for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of her youthful innocence and purity, Dymov is protective o…

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.

This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they disappear mysteriously in the air. He then takes a white hand…

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast. Mephistopheles appears; then the old witch, who suddenly changes to …

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.