Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès was born in Paris on 8 December 1861, into a well-off family of shoe manufacturers. In 1888, he acquired the Théâtre Robert-Houdin, where he presented illusion shows. On 28 December 1895, he attended the Lumière brothers' screening; they refused to sell him their apparatus, so he obtained one in London, from Robert W. Paul, and built a glass-walled studio at Montreuil. In 1923, he lost this property. He then ran a kiosk at Montparnasse station, was rediscovered in 1929, and died on 21 January 1938.

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• CinemaA Trip to the MoonLe Voyage dans la LuneGeorges Méliès · 1902Cinema