Méliès’ Alchemy – The Birth of Narrative Cinema

The accidental discovery of the ‘stop trick’ technique be Méliès while shooting a street traffic in Paris, became a game changer. The indigenous camera of Georges was very crude that the gate mechanism of it would often jam without warning. While filming a moving omnibus in the traffic his camera jammed for a while and...

Georgess Méliès – The Father of Special Effects

Sometimes history progresses through rejections. Tracing the lineage of the film history next to Lumiére brothers naturally one has to stop to visit Georgess Méliès (1861-1938). Méliès, the son of a shoemaker, dreamed of learning painting and he wanted to be an artist. But his father denial to assist him financially made him to end...