Méliès, Georges
Méliès, Georges (1861–1938),influential French film producer and director of numerous films, many of which were adaptations of classical fairy tales. He was the accidental inventor of trick photography and thus what we today call special effects. Méliès' most famous fantasy film—or féerie—is undoubtedly the 30‐scene science‐fiction adventure Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon, 1902) in which a rocket launched from earth lands in the moon's eye. However, Méliès, a stage magician and illusionist by training who became one of the first directors to use film techniques such as dissolve, time‐lapse photography, and artificial lighting, also adapted The Grasshopper and the Ant (from Aesop's Fables) in 1897, made a 20‐scene version of Cendrillon ( Cinderella ) in 1899, and completed versions of Barbe‐Bleue (
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