Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema.

In Martian Dreams, Méliès was transported to Mars in the accidental launch of Percival Lowell's space bullet at its exhibition at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Some time during his stay on Mars, Méliès came in contact with the Dream Machine of Elysium, and was trapped in the Dream World while the Martian Fazek inhabited his body.

In Méliès nightmare, the filmmaker was trapped in an ever-shrinking room whose walls contracted in response to movement. The Avatar was able to reach a pile of dreamstuff to create a bottle of oil, which was used to open the rusted door which prevented their escape. Upon returning to his physical body, Méliès assisted the Avatar by developing a photograph discovered by the hero.

With the destruction of Mars, Méliès returned to Earth on Andrew Carnegie's rocket.

Trivia

 * In 1893 (the year in which the fictional Lowell expedition takes place), Méliès had not yet begun working with film, but was a stage magician at the Theatre Robert-Houdin.