Hugo (film)
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Hugo is a 2011 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese, and adapted for the screen by John Logan. Based on Brian Selznick's 2007 book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it te
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Henri Maillardet automaton, London, England, c. 1810 Franklin Institute DSC06656
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Georges Méliès
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Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was a French filmmaker, actor, magician, and toymaker. He led many technical and narrative developments in the early days of cinema, primarily in the fantasy and science fict
Plaque commemorating the site of Méliès's birth – "In this block of flats was born on 8 December 1861 Georges Méliès, creator of the cinematic spectacle, prestidigitator, inventor of numerous illusions"
A painting by Méliès, c. 1883, Wallraf–Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Georges Méliès in a scene from The Vanishing Lady (1896)
Scene from A Terrible Night