An Adventurous Automobile Trip is a 1904 French silent comic trick film directed by Georges Méliès. The film, a spoof of the devil-may-care motoring exploits of King Leopold II of Belgium, features th
American newspaper advertisement for the film
Frame from a hand-colored print of the film
The New Amsterdam Theater in 1905, the year An Adventurous Automobile Trip was shown there
Georges Méliès
The Conquest of the Pole
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The Conquest of the Pole is a 1912 French silent science fantasy trick film directed by and starring Georges Méliès. The film, loosely inspired by contemporary events and by Jules Verne's Voyages Extr
An Adventurous Automobile Trip
…popular mime; and de Cottens himself. Fernande Albany, who also appeared in Méliès's films The Impossible Voyage, Tunnelling the English Channel, and The Conquest of the Pole, played the plump lady in the Dijon scene, and the Folies Bergère entertainers Blondet and Raiter also made appearances. Méliès himself plays two roles…
Poster for The Conquest of the Pole
The Giant of the Snows attacks the explorers
Hand-colored photograph of Peary's team at the North Pole