Georges Méliès

About Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès was a French illusionist, actor, producer and filmmaker whose work helped define cinema as a medium of fantasy, trickery and visual invention. Born Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès in Paris in 1861, he began not as a filmmaker but as a magician and theater owner. His background in stage illusion shaped everything that followed: where other early film exhibitors often treated the moving image as a record of…