The Magic of Méliès

00:00:02 Step right up! Step right up! Ladies and Gentlemen.

00:00:32 Travel to the moon with the Jules Verne of the cinema.

00:01:31 It's a pleasure to be here with you this evening in this magical place.

00:02:11 and you're here for a cinematography presentation.

00:02:40 The pianist with us tonight is the composer and improviser Eric Le Guen.

00:04:39 We have the privilege of attending tonight

00:05:47 Finally, five courageous heroes agree to accompany him on his mad enterprise.

00:11:03 Prisoners of the King of the Moon, the King of the Selenites.

00:19:06 In the darkness

00:26:03 he begins with a magic trick which I saw him perform:

00:28:56 these films which intrigued parents and amused their children.

00:29:34 He splashed a few drops of Pilocarpin on his shoes, and his shoes sprouted hair too.

00:30:06 In this film Melies, who is a bill poster

00:33:18 a colour film in which each frame was hand coloured at the time.

00:42:26 Georges Melies dressed as a chinaman in Tchin-Chao: The Chinese Conjuror.

00:46:20 What an old fogey! All the girls are very scared of him.

00:47:10 Notary, bring your writing case and your goose quill.

00:49:51 Madam, I have to go away on a very long journey.

00:51:35 This stain, cursed stain!

00:52:56 Madam, you are going to die!

00:55:12 with Jeanne d'Alcy, the world's first movie star.

01:09:00 had outlawed a number of gaming clubs in Paris.