Been in love with Melies after seeing Hugo, such a wonderful filmmaker

Also, glad you acknowledged Alice Guy and her pioneering films!!!

I luv Méliès's moon!! That Moon with a space capsule on its eye is an icon of scifi history!!

Can you get a Thomas Edison figurine, and punch it, instead of the eagle? Edison damned sure deserves it

I'm LOVING this series. Thanks Craig and CrashCourse!

Next time you go watch the Avengers, or Star Wars, or anything else. This man. This man started it all.

Aside from Hugo itself, I highly recommend viewers get and read a copy of the book it's based on "The Invention of Hugo Cabret". been a while since i watched Hugo, so can't really remember it, but the storytelling and artwork of The Invention is definitely something everyone should experience at least once.

you guys will probably never read this and it will most likely get buried under a mountain of other commitments but this series was the #1 reason I was able to finish my research paper on film history

Melies didn't just want to buy the device, he offered lumiere to give everting he owned; his entire fortune, his house and even his FAMILY lmao

As if i already got enough reasons to dislike Thomas Edison.. come on man.

I'm looking forward to your upcoming lessons on the Silent Film era, particularly on the films Nosferatu, The Lost World, and Metropolis.

Be honest, you learned most of this from Hugo

Georges was my great great grandfather, and I have to say your video is awesome, the best in this format I have seen for a long time. Thanks a lot.

Love this CC series! But holy s***, Alice Guy-Blaché is fascinating. Thanks for including her, even after your first editing was done. I wouldn't have known about her otherwise. Now I wonder how fast a biographical film of her will be made, because there is a lot of good narrative to be mined.

I'm waiting for Craig to feature his movie, "Eagle Punch: The Movie"

David Bowie is Nikola Tesla in the prestige and it's unbelievable. I didn't know this before but wow now I couldn't unsee the way I watch prestige. it was him all the way.. salute Ziggy stardust!

This is by far my favourite Crash Course opening! Keep up the great work!

Alice Guy-Blaché!!! Omg I saw her stuff in class once a literal decade ago && have been trying to find her work since ( by the time I could appreciate what I had seen I had forgotten her name && lost contact w/the professor ) so xcited to rewatch everything I can find of hers again!!! Thank u crash course!!!

D'aww real life happy endings are the best

Gotta say this series' intro is without a doubt my favorite out of all the crash course intros

What a beautiful story about Melies. Thank you Crash Course.

Happy birthday Georges Mélies!

I haven't laughed out of pure joy in a long time. Thanks you! Beautiful editing and scripting. Thank you for that honest, full felt laugh.

Honestly as a 21st century watcher who recently saw a trip to the moon I have to see it's still pretty impressive and magical

today i am watching and still quality is awesome.

THANK YOU FILM HISTORY! These videos were the only reason I was able to do my project in time. Thank you!

Just today I watched Hugo and came into this playlist by coincidence, now I'm completely in love with Méliès' work

I see that "Fault In Our Stars" copy in the intro scene, John ya big promoter.

this guy is awesome

Thank you for mentioning Alice Guy-Blache! She's so important to the history of cinema yet I don't see people talking about her at all! I feel like she's been quite erased of history.

i just watched Hugo! this is perfect

I absolutely adore this!

I missed you on Crash Course ever since your Civics stuff was done, Craig. You're rapid stream of consciousness style is easy for me to intake, I don't get bored and wander off having to keep up with your minutiae.

Such a great series!

LOVE THIS SERIES. LOVE YOU WHEEZYWAITER

Fun Fact, the théâtre Robert Houdin, owned by Meliès, was named after Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, the french magician that inspired the stage name of the escape artist Harry Houdini.

This serie is so f*cking awesome ! i love you Craig

Great series! With so much of what you're talking about wildly out of copyright and on KZfaq, it might be nice to have an ongoing 'Films Mentioned in Crash Course Film History' playlist. Even if it just ends up as trailers as we get deeper into the series. Also if this already exists, a link would be smashing.

I love the recaps.

this is one of those videos that I watch all the way

I love this series.

Good episode

I have a film history exam tomorrow and im using this series to help me pass, i hope it works :)

please keep it up I learned so much from crash course

Hey, I remember him from a book called Hugo Cabret. Thanks for expanding my knowledge on him CrashCourse!

I read a passage in Toefl practice about George Melies. It is pretty amazing to listen to this video and really get the ideas of all his inventions. The double exposure is fun too ;)

YEEEAH TONIGHT, TONIGHT'S MY JAM.

Needs more Alice Guy-Blaché. (Okay okay I'm glad she at least got a token mention. I was worried you might just skip her)

If Thomas Edison was around today he'd be a troll

*flashbacks to The Invention of Hugo Cabret*

Literally so helpful. This is my paper ❤️

@7:45 I want that same tattoo! Thanks, Matt's arm!

Cool video!

Happy birthday Georges

i love the thumbnail picture, with all the little georges. also, cool tat, matt!

Great series. I'd love you to do a series on comic books. Scott McCould's Understanding Comics would be a good blueprint for the series.

I really really love this :3

wait this guy actually existed, i thought he was a fictional character from the book that turned into the movie hugo, thats one of my favorite books

May the Fourth be with you, Craig.

Not enough Matthew Gaydos.

Wish i had this when i was doing my early film module last semester!

Hugo is one of my favorite books

I really hope you cover Singin' in The Rain and how it related to the death of the silent film era, especially the stars that were left behind because their voices would not mesh with their characters.

who else thought the lil dudes in the thumbnail were supposed to be craig

Dude did all this over 100 years ago. What a legend. Without any prior knowledge or technology. Just makes you respect early 20th centrury and prior inventors even more.

I watched _Hugo_ a few years ago, without ever having heard of Méliès before. For most of this video I had this thought buzzing in my head, _I know I've already heard a similar story before, but where?_

Thank u all very much

I never noticed that "Netflix and chill of the 1930s" in the intro until now.

the awards statue they use in the highest honor in hollywood visual effects is the moon head from trip to the moon.

I always wondered where the moon thing came from. I have seen it before but thought it was maybe a painting or art piece, never thought it came from an old movie. I learned so much today.

Craig is the best crash course guy

~ wow : really great man .. !!

Oh my... Finally a story with a happy ending in history.

Here after reading and seeing Hugo 🎥❤️

Just to add to the Edison Bashing, he didn't even invent the light bulb. He took the invention, and he did improve on it, but his real genius was the business end & marketing. (The light bulb was invented by Henry Woodward in 1874 in Toronto, Canada. Woodward then sold the patent to Edison.)

My guess is that next time you're gonna talk about Sergei Eisenstein. Am I right, Crashcourse? Do I get a cookie?

7:45 Matt just vanished into thin air! What kind of sorcery is this?!

Such a wonderful man I read the book the invention of hugo cabaret wonderful book

you know the movie Hugo, there is a mention of Georges Melies; Fly me to the Moon... its a pretty good movie

I think my first big "change of perspective" moment was reading The Alchemist in my first year of high school Great book

the story is best , Iam learning from you

"Can you make me float up"? haha...i like the faint "we cant do that"

Yay! I've been saying his name right for years!

Double exposure- running the film negative through the camera twice before developing it Both images appear, second one appears faded Split frame-cover half the frame and shoot twice to have same actors do different things Matting basically the same as the split frame but cover whatever you want by painting the plate however you wanted George Melies what can you really say he was an stage magician, he innovated the game with ambitious storylines, editing, lavish costumes, sets 25-75 films a year, founded a production company called Star Film and made a studio. He quit but then was recognized by Louis Lumiere Also films were being colored by painting films whatever -A Trip to the Moon Alice Guy Blaché was a female filmmaker that's about it Matthew Gaydos's arm

A trip to the moon is actually on netflix for anyone who was unaware and wants to see it.

Thats freaky, the bus turning to a hearse.

Is Melies like Zach King?

Really amazing video series, thanks so much for making it. Like the Lumiere's were not the first to hold a public screening George was not the first to use the stop the camera, and make a substitution, and start the camera back up trick. The first film I think to use it was called The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots from 1895. Still, George probably discovered on his own, like he described. While he did use the double exposure trick ( a lot) along with the substitution trick, and a quick edit to match them up, I do not believe he used the split screen effect, or the Matte effect you mentioned in the video. If you want to show me proof, I will look at it, but all the films I have seen from him are just Double Exposures, beautifully executed, but still not Splits or Mattes. That is why there is so much black on his stage, so that he can just run the unexposed film through the camera again, and place another image in the black area of the stage, no need for Mattes or Splits. Many claim that Four Troublesome Heads used these Mattes, but they would never work in the real world scenario of that film, as George himself is moving around too much for his head to be cut off by a Matte. Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery certainly used Mattes, but they did not use glass either, as that would cut off portions of the frame that are simply still there, no digital roto-scoping to help them out. Other than than great video, and great series.

please make an episode where you talk about the greatest film movements, I.e. Nu velle vogue, classic hollywood, german mysticism, and some of the "considered" greatest films of all time. -thanks C:

Congratulations for being a daddy Craig !!! :)

Uhh weezy waiter, had not expected you here :D

Mysterio is probably Melies' biggest fan.

Melies the inventor of the cinema as a art form the fist of all the Movies pioneer...

Haven't seen the movie "Hugo" completely...so,Méliés was portrayed by sir Ben Kingsley if I'm not mistaken.

Watching this for a school Project :P

May the 4th be with you

There's a book about this. The Invention of Hugo Cebret. (I don't know if I'm spelling it right.)

The moon is referenced in Futurama, the best show ever... That's how I knew of it.

I have one little nitpick-- the city in France you referenced at 7:57 is not pronounced Mon-trell but more like a cross between Mon-troy and Mon-trey, with a rolled r.

I didnt know I was into Film History... untill now