3:00 p.m.	The Magic of Georges Méliès Georges Méliès (France, 1902–1907)

The charming and disarming films of Georges Méliès, the first and still the best magician of the movies, combined live-action and animation, trick photography and trompe-l’oeil, and marvelous color tinting. This program of archival prints takes us to the moon and back, through the fantastic and still wonderful worlds of this early master of the cinema.

• A Trip to the Moon (Voyage dans la lune) (1902, 12 mins, B&W, 16mm, PFA Collection). Pillar of Fire (La danse du feu) (1904, 4 mins, Color). Voyage à travers l’impossible (1904, 20 mins, Color). Les fromages automobiles (1907, 4 mins, B&W). Chirurgie fin-de-siècle, ou une indigestion (1902, 5 mins, B&W). A Crazy Composer (Le compositeur toqué) (1905, 4 mins, B&W). The Living Playing Cards (Les cartes vivantes) (1905, 49 sec, B&W).

• (Total running time: c. 50 mins, Silent with French and English intertitles, 35mm, From George Eastman House, except where otherwise indicated)