Méliès

[ mey-lyes ]

noun

1. Georges [zhaw, r, zh], 1861–1938, French film director.

Méliès

/ meljɛs /

noun

1. MélièsGeorges18611938MFrenchFILMS AND TV: director Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1861–1938, French pioneer film director

Example Sentences

Think “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” with a sprinkle of Georges Méliès.

From Los Angeles Times

Not long after his death, a shoemaker’s son named Georges Méliès purchased the Theatre Robert-Houdin and upon seeing a demonstration of the newly invented cinematograph by the Lumière brothers, acquired his own projector.

From New York Times

Like Méliès, Tamariz accomplishes this by turning off, so to speak, the camera.

From New York Times

Turning Georges Méliès’ famous 1902 science fiction short, “A Trip to the Moon,” into an equally fanciful vision of dreams dashed, a filmed journey set aboard a coffeepot-spaceship runs in reverse.

From Los Angeles Times

Visitors who choose to follow the show’s organizing principle will begin on the streets of Paris, then move into forms of entertainment including the Expositions Universelles of 1889 and 1900, continuing through artists’ and filmmakers’ studios, and finally entering a screening room where they can take in a 25-minute collection of vintage films by the likes of Georges Méliès, Ferdinand Zecca and the Lumières.

From Washington Post