The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a children's historical fiction book written and illustrated by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. The hardcover edition was released on January 30, 2007, and
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
…was adapted by Martin Scorsese as the 2011 film Hugo. The book's primary inspiration is the true story of turn-of-the-century French pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès, his surviving films, and his collection of mechanical, wind-up figures called automata. Selznick decided to add an Automaton to the storyline after…
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