Director: Georges Melies

No image from early cinema, save perhaps the train arriving at La Ciotat, endures so strongly as Georges Melies’ man in the moon, a spaceship crashed into his eye.

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The Haunted Castle (Le Chateau hante) (1897)

The Haunted Castle, an 1897 film by Georges Melies, is a bit of an odd duck, but also another important milestone for the director.

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The House of the Devil (La Manoir du diable) (1896)

Would you believe the first horror movie in the history of cinema is a comedy?

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Conjuring (1896)

The lack of preservation of early films is a bewildering and heartbreaking truth of movie history.

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Playing Cards (1896)

Georges Méliès (1861-1938) was cinema’s first great director.

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A Trip to the Moon (1902)

As I dive deeper and deeper into film history with The Goods and my expanded set of movie reviews, I’d like to more systematically expand my understanding and coverage of film history.