Georges Méliès: Cuentos Fantasticos en Color [BLU_RAY]

GEORGES MÉLIÈS FANTASTIC TALES IN COLOR (1899-1909)

12 Shorts + 1 Documentary


LA PILLAR OF FIRE - 1899 - 1 min. A devil lights a fire. A dancer appears and dances among the flames.

JOAN OF ARC - 1900 - 11 min. The story of Joan of Arc in eleven scenes, from the divinely inspired peasant girl of Domrémy, to the captain of the French army and martyr.

ROBINSON CRUSOE - 1902 - 12 min. Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on an island. As he struggles to survive, he saves Friday from some hostile natives. Together, they build a raft to try to escape.

THE KINGDOM OF FAIRIES - 1903 - 17 min. Princess Azurine and Prince Bal Azor celebrate their engagement with their fairy godmothers, but they forgot to invite the Witch, who, enraged, kidnaps the princess.

THE INFERNAL CAULDRON - 1903 - 2 min. The demon Belphegor throws helpless captives into his infernal cauldron. Their spirits fade into thin air and disappear...

JOURNEY THROUGH THE IMPOSSIBLE - 1904 - 21 min. By train, submarine and other means of transportation, several scientists from the Geographical Society Inc undertake an expedition to the Sun...

RIP VAN WINCKLE - 1905 - 15 min. In a small British American colony, Rip, accused of complicity with the French, must flee to the mountains. There he falls asleep and dreams that he is condemned to sleep for 20 years.

THE FANTASTIC AIRBORNE OR AN INVENTOR'S LA - 1906 - 3 min. An exhausted inventor goes to sleep and dreams that his newly designed airship flies...

THE CARABOSSE FAIRY - 1906 - 13 min. A young troubadour consults the fairy Carabosse about his future. When the young man tries to pay her with a bag of sand, the fairy flies into a rage and swears revenge.

THE DEVIL'S TANGLES - 1906 - 21 min. British engineer William Crackford sells his soul to the alchemist Alcofribazs, who turns out to be Satan. In exchange he receives magic pills that allow him to travel through the air...

THE DIABOLISH TENANT - 1909 - 7 min. The tenant of a new apartment furnishes it to his liking with his magical powers: All his furniture comes out of his bag!

FANTASTIC ILLUSIONS - 1909 - 5 min. A magician and his assistant perform a series of magic tricks, including making lanterns and potted plants. Then a couple of enigmatic Egyptians appear.

DOCUMENTARY: THE MYSTERY OF MÉLIÈS France - 2020 - 60 min. AUDIO French with subtitles in Spanish and Portuguese

Image: 1.33:1

Duration: 188 minutes

Disk region: B

AUDIO: Documentary in French Mono 2.0

SUBTITLES: Documentary in Spanish and Intertitles in Spanish and Portuguese.