Faust : apparition de Méphistophélès (1897)

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

"死者蘇生技術"が発達し、屍者を労働力として活用している19世紀末。ロンドンの医学生ジョン・H・ワトソンは、親友フライデーとの生前の約束どおり、自らの手で彼を違法に屍者化を試みる。 その行為は、諜報機関「ウォルシンガム機関」の知るところとなるが、ワトソンはその技術と魂の再生への野心を見込まれてある任務を命じられる。 それは、100年前にヴィクター・フランケンシュタイン博士が遺し、まるで生者のように意思を持ち言葉を話す最初の屍者ザ・ワンを生み出す究極の技術が記されているという「ヴィクターの手記」の捜索。 第一の手がかりは、アフガニスタン奥地。ロシア帝国軍の司祭にして天才的屍者技術者アレクセイ・カラマーゾフが突如新型の屍者とともにその地へ姿を消したという。 彼が既に「手記」を入手し、新型の屍者による王国を築いているのだとしたら…?フライデーと共に海を渡るワトソン。 しかしそれは、壮大な旅のはじまりにすぎなかった。 イギリス、アフガニスタン、日本、アメリカ、そして最後に彼を待ちうける舞台は…? 魂の再生は可能なのか。死してなお、生き続ける技術とは。 「ヴィクターの手記」をめぐるグレートゲームが始まる!

あるクラブを訪れた少女クラリーは、そこで謎めいたジェイスという少年に遭遇する。彼は地下世界に潜む、吸血鬼、人狼、妖魔などを始末するシャドウハンターと呼ばれる一族の者であった。やがて、ジョイスは母ジョスリンもシャドウハンターである上に、強大な力を授けるとされる聖杯を隠し持っていることを知る。衝撃の事実に動揺する中、母が聖杯を狙う反逆者ヴァレンタインに拉致されてしまう。

目覚めるたび、自分が死んだ日の朝に逆戻り。ある事故をきっかけに、同じ日を繰り返す運命に陥ってしまった女子高生は、謎の無限ループを断ち切ろうとする。

人間と魔物が共存する世界。マスター・グレゴリーは、魔法を自在に操り戦士並みの強さを有する“魔使い”最後の生き残りだった。そんな中、彼が遥か昔に封印した凶悪な魔女マルキンが復活。それと共に多くの魔物が蘇り、人類はかつてない危機にさらされる。特殊な能力を代々持つと言われる一族の７番目の息子トムは、ひょんなことからグレゴリーと出会い、彼の弟子になることに。マルキンを倒すため２人は魔物退治へと旅立つ…。

突然逃げ出した羊達。ヒック達は何とか捕まえようとするうちに...。ヒックとドラゴンの人気競技、ドラゴン・レース誕生にまつわるストーリー。

The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger

After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what the next day will bring.

カンザスの農場でおじさん夫婦と一緒に暮らす少女ドロシーは、ある日、竜巻に家ごと上空に巻き上げられ、愛犬のトトとともに魔法の国オズへとたどり着く。故郷の家に戻るためにはオズの魔法使いの力を借りる必要があると言われたドロシーは、早速魔法使いの住むエメラルド・シティを目指して旅に出る。その途中、臆病ライオンや脳のないカカシ、そして心を持たないブリキ男も仲間に加わり、一行は不思議な冒険を繰り広げていく。

暴君ガルバトリックス支配下のアラゲイシア帝国。辺境に暮らす少年エラゴンは、ある日森の中で青く光る石を拾う。だがそれはドラゴンの卵で、やがて青い雌ドラゴン・サフィラが誕生する。エラゴンは語り部ブロムからドラゴンとドラゴンライダーがこの国の平和を守っていたという歴史を聞く。一方、ドラゴンの誕生を知った王は刺客である魔物を放つ。魔物に叔父を殺されたエラゴンは、最後のドラゴンライダーとなる使命を負う。

Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to whom she feels drawn to both. But as the love triangle unfurls, it is Daniel that Luce cannot keep herself away from, and things begin to take a darker turn when she finds out his true identity.

戦場にたたずむ謎めいた女性のもとへ向かうも、それを果たせずに絶命する夢を毎晩のように見る17歳のイーサン。そんな夢に悩まされる中、彼が通う高校にレナという少女が転校してくる。ミステリアスな美貌に心奪われるイーサンだったが、彼女は自身では制御できない強大な魔力を持つ魔法使い「キャスター」だと知る。さらに彼女には、光と闇に分かれてにらみ合うキャスター二大勢力のどちらかに属することが決められる16歳の誕生日が迫っていた。

ロバート・エガース監督が、19世紀イギリスの実在の事件を映画化したスリラー。孤島に赴任してきた2人の灯台守が険悪な関係となり、思わぬ事件に発展する。主演はウィレム・デフォーとロバート・パティンソン。

アリス・シーボルトのベスト・セラー小説をピーター・ジャクソンが映画化。14歳で殺害されてしまった少女・スージー。事件がきっかけでバラバラになってしまった家族と、天国から見守るスージーの絆を事件の顛末を絡めスリリングに描くファンタジー。

エベニザー・スクルージ（ジム・キャリー）は、部下の事務員（ゲイリー・オールドマン）や甥（コリン・ファース）に怒鳴り散らし、クリスマス・イブの日も、周囲に温かい言葉ひとつかけることもなく、金勘定に勤しんでいた。しかし、クリスマスの精霊が彼の目の前に現れ、自分の過去、現在、未来を巡る旅へと連れ出され、埋もれた真実を知っていく。そしてスクルージは、嫌われ者だった自分を見つめ直し、心を開こうとする…。

第二次世界大戦下のイギリス。ペベンシー家の4人の兄妹-ピーター、スーザン、エドマンド、ルーシーは、ロンドンの空襲を逃れて田舎に住むカーク教授に預けられる。古めかしく広大な教授の屋敷は、子供たちにとって最高の探検場所。好奇心旺盛な末っ子のルーシーは、“かくれんぼ”をしているうちに、空き部屋で大きな古い衣装だんすをみつける。見えない力に導かれるかのように衣装だんすに入り、毛皮のコートを押しのけて奥に進むといつしかルーシーは雪に覆われた真夜中の森に立っていた。

両親と上の兄姉が渡米中、エドマンドとルーシーのペベンシー兄妹はいとこのユースチスの家に預けられた。ある時、壁に掛けられた船の絵を見ていた3人は、突然動き出した絵の中に吸い込まれ、ナルニアの海へと放り出された。王となったカスピアンやネズミの騎士リーピチープが乗る船・朝びらき丸に救われた彼らは、懐かしい友人たちとの再会を喜ぶ間もなく、ナルニアを悪から守る7つの魔法の剣を探す冒険に加わることになる。

白い魔女に勝利してから1年。現実に戻ったペベンシー4兄妹は、角笛の音に導かれ再びナルニア国へと舞い戻ってきた。しかし、この国の時間ではすでに1300年が経過しており、平和で美しい魔法の国は暴君ミラースに支配されていた。荒れはてたナルニア国を目にした4兄妹は、この国の王位継承者であるカスピアン王子（ベン・バーンズ）と出会う。

Darren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and work hard at trying to find tickets. They do, and together they go to "Cirque du Freak" where they see many strange acts including a wolf-man and a bearded lady

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast. Mephistopheles appears; then the old witch, who suddenly changes to a beautiful young girl. The changes and magical appearances are startling and instantaneous.

A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Mephistopheles draws the sword across the throat of the lady and she suddenly disappears and Faust is seated in her place.

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead of containing the magician a lively clown steps forth who further mystifies the audience by causing the box to disappear, and in its place is seen a fully laid table with a smoking dinner, to which the clown applies himself. The table, however, suddenly disappears much to the astonishment of the clown, who is confronted by the magician in the garb of Mephistopheles. This he suddenly changes to that of a sculptor, and in the background is seen a pedestal with the bust of a young lady, which comes to life as the sculptor applies the mallet and chisel.

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film "Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou La cornue infernale" (The Mysterious Retort) as this film, "L'hallucination de l'alchimiste" (An Hallucinated Alchemist) from 1897, which continues to be considered a lost film.

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his room--beds vanishing and re-appearing, candles exploding, pants flying through the air and his shoes walking away by themselves.

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895, and Georges Méliès' accidental realisation of the special-effects potential of the jump-cut in 1896.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an angelic woman emerges from the pot. The devil and the pot vanish as the woman performs a dance, waving about her diaphanous sleeves until she conjures forth another fire, then she rises amongst the smoke into the air.

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into a outlet of Pandemonium.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

[…] A reel was shot of the Noh drama Momiji-gari (Maple Leaf Hunters, or Viewing Scarlet Maple Leaves), in which Danjuro played opposite Onoe Kikugoro V (1844-1903) as an ogress who has disguised herself as the Princess Sarashina. Filmed by Shibata Tsunekichi in the open air on a windy day in November 1899, Danjuro would allow only the one take, so that when his fan blew away in mid-performance the scene had to stay. The film re-emerged at the Kikikan theatre in 1907 where it was a great success and inspired a wave of fiction filmmaking based on traditional Japanese narratives. (cont. http://victorian-cinema.net/danjuro)

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seven bags in a strong box, and makes with his hands some cabalistic motions. The miser comes into the hall and is greatly astonished to find his fortune missing. He opens the coffer and immediately the bags leap out. He gathers them up and puts them back into the coffer. When he opens it again he finds that they have been transformed into seven young girls, who rush out and chase after him, beating him unmercifully. They shut him up in the coffer from which his gold has vanished. The miser pushes open the lid of the coffer, and to his profound despair finds that both young girls and money have disappeared. (This view is most sensational in its mysterious scenes.) (Star Film Catalog)

At the beginning of the scene Romeo in his gondola sings to Juliet a sentimental song, then goes away. Hardly has he departed when the colonnade falls to pieces, disclosing the devil. Juliet, frightened, runs to the window and calls Romeo. The latter attempts to enter and protect his fiancée, but at a gesture from the devil the window is instantly covered with a grating and Romeo makes frantic efforts to break it. The devil begins to dance a wild dance before Juliet, who is beside herself from terror. The devil gradually becomes the size of a giant (a novel effect). Juliet implores the statue of Madonna, which becomes animated, descends from its pedestal, and stretching out its arms orders the devil to disappear. (Méliès Catalog)

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.