Arrêt de caméra, fondus... Autant de trucages utilisés dans le cinéma moderne mais popularisés au 20e siècle par un français ...

Georges Méliès was a visionary director and illusionist who pioneered groundbreaking cinematic techniques that still influence film today. Méliès reverse-engineered a projection machine into a camera, ...

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Among the many museums in Paris, the Musée Méliès may slip through visitors' attention. That should not be the case. This museum is a permanent exhibition of the Cinemathèque Francaise in Bercy, ...

Google celebrated the life of French filmmaker Georges Méliès on Thursday, with a commemorative doodle on the homepage. Méliès was celebrated in his time as he pioneered a range of special effects in ...

Make no mistake about it, Georges Méliès is one of the most influential filmmakers in cinema history. Just a few years after the birth of filmmaking in the 1890s, the French filmmaker began releasing ...

French filmmaker Georges Méliès may not be a household name for those not schooled in film history, but his work is familiar to most. An anthropomorphic moon with a rocket ship sticking out of its ...

Odds are you’ve seen the now-iconic shot of a rocket running into the eye of the Man in the Moon from George Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon, the 1902 French film that is considered the first science ...

Although the innovative and bizarre films of Georges Méliès were made over 100 years ago, thanks to the work of film archivists and the wonderfully public forum known as YouTube, several of his best ...

In 1998, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin added a stick figure drawing to their company’s homepage as a fun way to let visitors know they were out of office attending the Burning Man ...

Most of us are used to seeing special cinematic effects - and for that, we have Georges Méliès to thank. The trailblazing French illusionist and film director pioneered several film techniques, and ...