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    Georges Méliès

    French filmmaker and illusionist

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  1. Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès ( / meɪˈljɛs /; [1] French: [meljɛs]; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres.

  2. Jun 13, 2024 · Georges Méliès is famous for his many innovations in motion pictures. He was one of the first to film fictional narratives, and he is regarded as the inventor of special effects in movies. His films were among the first to use such techniques as double exposure, stop-motion, and slow motion.

  3. May 3, 2018 · Méliès, born in 1861, was an innovator par excellence, experimenting with effects in his films that blew people’s minds in an era when film itself was still startling to many people.

  4. Georges Méliès (1861–1938) was a French filmmaker and magician generally regarded as the first person to recognize the potential of narrative film. [1] He made about 520 films between 1896 and 1912, [2] covering a range of genres including trick films, fantasies, comedies, advertisements, satires, costume dramas, literary adaptations ...

  5. Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and ...

  6. Before becoming one of the most important filmmakers in early cinema, Georges Méliès was—and remained throughout his life—a gifted magician. Fascinated by puppets from a young age, he was...

  7. An in-depth biography of the film actor and director Georges Méliès, and a complete list of the artist's films, with links to movie reviews.

  8. Georges Méliès died in 1938 after making over five hundred films in total - financing, directing, photographing and starring in nearly every one. Here

  9. Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; French: [meljɛs]; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema, primarily in the fantasy and science fiction genres.

  10. Dec 8, 2020 · Well, he’s most famous as the man who put the rocket in the eye of the moon – that first truly iconic image of cinema, which is known and recognised globally even by those who don’t know the film it came from, A Trip to the Moon (1902). Méliès was the great early pioneer of cinema.

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