The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth…

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring is notable as Méliès’s second film, and as his first to move beyond the…

A man does tricks by forming hats and then putting them on. Fragment available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

In a room filled with jugglers’ properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an…

The German legend of a scholar’s unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès’ early cinematic treatment likely…

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of…

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.