éveillé (literally "Drunkenness, or the Awake Dreamer"), known in English as A Rude Awakening and as The Duke's Good Joke, was a 1908 French short silent...

The House of the Devil (in French, Le Manoir du diable, lit. The Devil’s manor), released in the United States as The Haunted Castle and in Britain as...

The Rag Picker (French: Le Chiffonnier), also released as A Good Joke (French: Une bonne farce), was an 1896 French short silent film directed by Georges...

for the screen by John Logan. Based on Brian Selznick's 2007 book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it tells the story of a boy who lives alone in the Gare...

1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and its 1870 sequel Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the moon in a cannon-propelled...

January 30, 2007, and the paperback edition was released on June 2, 2008. With 284 pictures between the book's 533 pages, the book depends as much on...

filmmaker Eugène Lauste, Méliès wrote that "luckily enough, I am strong and in good health. But it is hard to work 14 hours a day without getting my Sundays...

bodystocking). The maid helps the woman bathe, pouring water over her, and finally covers and dries her with a robe. Méliès was not the first filmmaker...

The Impossible Voyage (French: Le Voyage à travers l'impossible), also known as An Impossible Voyage and Whirling the Worlds, is a 1904 French silent...

She was the wife of Georges Méliès from 1925 until his death in 1938. D'Alcy died at the age of 91 in 1956. She is buried with her husband in the Père-Lachaise...