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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "fantasy" (40)

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The Devil's Castle/The Haunted Castle/The House of the Devil (Le manoir du diable)

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Jeanne d'Alcy (lead)
Jules-Eugène Legris (lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1896, month unknown
Minutes: 3

The Devil plays tricks, some (bats, shifting furniture) later used in the 1902 'The Farmer's Troubles in a Hotel'. [Star Film 78-80]

Featured elements:

: fantasy; haunted house

The Bewitched Inn (L'auberge ensorcelée)

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1897, month unknown
Minutes: 2

Traveler enters an inn to rest, but magically mutinous objects refuse to remain inanimate. [Star Film 122-123]

Featured elements:

: comedy; fantasy; haunted house; magical mutiny gag

Sherlock Holmes Baffled

Arthur Marvin (cinematographer/director)
Arthur Conan Doyle (author)
American Mutoscope and Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, released in May 1900
Minutes: 1

1 trick, 1 minute, 0 interest

Featured elements:

: detective; fantasy; home invasion

The Cook’s Revenge

Georges Méliès (director)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1900, month unknown
Minutes: 1

The lighter side of beheadings. [Star Film 243]

Featured elements:

: beheading; comedy; fantasy

Going to Bed Under Difficulties (Le Déshabillage impossible)

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1900, month unknown
Minutes: 2

Man finds it impossible to undress for bed, because new clothes magically keep appearing on him. [Star Film 312-313]

Featured elements:

: comedy; fantasy; magical mutiny gag

How He Missed His Train

Georges Méliès (director)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1900, month unknown
Minutes: 1

Getting out of bed under difficulties...One man learns to embrace his Inner Slacker. [Star Film 322]

Featured elements:

: comedy; fantasy; magical mutiny gag

The Cabbage Fairy (La Fee aux Choux)

Alice Guy-Blaché (director)
Yvonne Mugnier-Serand (lead)
Gaumont (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1900, month unknown
Minutes: 1

A staging of the fairy tale of children born from a cabbage patch and a rose garden.

Featured elements:

: birthing; fantasy

Undressing Extraordinary

Walter R. Booth (director)
R.W. Paul's (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1901, month unknown
Minutes: 3

Man finds it impossible to undress for bed, because new clothes magically keep appearing on him. Remake of 'Going to Bed Under Difficulties (Le Déshabillage impossible)'.

Featured elements:

: comedy; fantasy; magical mutiny gag

How To Stop A Motor Car

Percy Stow (director)
Hepworth (production)

Language: Silent, released in Jun 1902
Minutes: 2

As taught by a Master of Butt-Fu. An excellent training video for rookie first responders. Learn from the Master, who does a full 10 seconds of comic takes before finally offering a helping hand to the mangled young constable.

Featured elements:

: automobile; comedy; fantasy

A Trip to the Moon

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in Sep 1902
Minutes: 13

Astronomers make a trip to the Moon. [Star Film 399-411]

Featured elements:

: adventure; fantasy; sci-fi

Midwife to the Upper Class (Sage-femme de première classe)

Alice Guy-Blaché (director/lead)
Yvonne Mugnier-Serand (lead)
Germaine Mugnier-Serand (lead)
Gaumont (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1902, month unknown
Minutes: 4

Remake of the 1900 film The Cabbage Fairy (La Fee aux Choux).

Featured elements:

: birthing; fantasy; white supremacy

Mary Jane's Mishap

George Albert Smith (director/producer)
Laura Bayley (lead)

Language: Silent, released in Feb 1903
Minutes: 4

Or, don't fool with the paraffin...

Featured elements:

: comedy; fantasy

The Cake-Walk Infernal

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in Jun 1903
Minutes: 4

The Hollywood musical from Hell. [Star Film 453-457]

Featured elements:

: dance; fantasy; music

The Inn Where No Man Rests (L'auberge du bon repos)

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in Jun 1903
Minutes: 5

Drunk gags + 'Bewitched Inn' + 'Going to Bed Under Difficulties' + chase, all rolled into one. [Star Film 465-469]

Featured elements:

: boozy-woozy; chase; comedy; fantasy; haunted house; magical mutiny gag

The Melomaniac (Le Mélomane)

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in Aug 1903
Minutes: 2

A music lesson, using telegraph wires - and the teacher's head. Must be a French thing... [Star Film 479-480]

Featured elements:

: beheading; fantasy; music

The Kingdom of the Fairies

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Bleuette Bernon (lead)
Nicolas Brazier (author)
Pierre Carmouche (author)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in Sep 1903
Minutes: 17

Méliès masterpiece, accompanied by an original composition [Star Film 483-498]

Featured elements:

: fantasy

How Monsieur Takes His Bath (Comment monsieur prend son bain)

Alice Guy-Blaché (director)
Ferdinand Zecca (lead)
Gaumont (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1903, month unknown
Minutes: 1

Man finds it impossible to undress for bed, because new clothes magically keep appearing on him. Remake of 'Going to Bed Under Difficulties (Le Déshabillage impossible)'.