Star Film Company

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

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

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus tries to make some repairs but succeeds only in heating the bolts and burning Zeus's hands. Zeus conjures nine muses, but do their incantations help? He dismisses them as well as a visiting Pan, and his fits of pique become counter-productive. Can he get his powers back?

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs of ancient Araby. Guided by the mysterious Khalafar, the troupe (alongside him go some cowardly scholars) encounter skeletons, fire-breathing lizards, and mirages on their journey through the lower world.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer then has a large box brought in. It is opened, revealing a very large folding fan. When the fan is spread out, the designs on it begin to change and move. And this is far from the last of the surprises that the conjurer has in store.

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.