The short films:
Le grand Méliès
“Le Grand Méliès” by Georges Franju is a short French documentary about the life of the film pioneer Georges Méliès. Filmed in 1952, André Méliès plays his father.
Le voyage dans la lune
The first short with ‘special effects’ burned into our collective memory. For the first time, a level of visual effects are achieved like never before, and we will travel to the Moon.
Le locataire diabolique
See the master act in his own classic! The film’s special effects were created using pyrotechnics, stage machinery, and furniture props moved by hidden actors, including his son André.
La Fée Carabosse
A young troubadour pays the Carabosse Fairy to know his future. She shows him a beautiful princess, trapped in a tower. Help! Help!
Extra info
A Homage to Georges Méliès, the inventor of cinema, with a series of three shorts, with musical arrangements by Samuel Van Dyck and the students of the Academy XXXXX, directed by Marie-Noëlle Bette, the students of the Academy XXXXX and pianist XXXXX.