George Méliès

George Méliès was a famous illusionist and magician that worked in Paris. When he discovered the cinemotograph, he thought that the new means had many posibilities as a show.
           Méliès used the cinemotograph to make magic tricks:
         

           


           Mèliés also filmed fantastic stories, with sers, actors and actresses, scripts, make up and wardrobe. He imagined fantastic plots, like a trip to the moon:

         Finally, he configured a new show conception with the cinematograph. Films had to be watched in a movie theatre with music in live. A pianist or an orchestra played accompaniment music with the images.
          For all these reasons,George Méliès is one of the greatest filmmakers in history.