Le Diable au couvent
Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.
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"During the 15 or so years Georges Méliès made films, he often used plots where he was the Devil. Mostly it was just an excuse for him to dress up in his familiar demon suit and do his magic tricks....making things appear, disappear or change before your very eyes. Such tricks were shocking and exciting in 1899, though folks seeing it today quickly realize that the trick involved turning the camera off and then on to make things seem to change before your eyes. In this case, Satan appears at a nunnery. At first, he pretends to be a priest, but during his sermon, he becomes his true self. Lots ..."
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In 2010, the Cinémathèque Basque received a donation of a box of 35mm films, recovered by a private individual in 1995 from a garbage bin in Bilbao. The box was found to contain 32 films, including hand-colored prints of The Devil in a Convent, and another 1899 Méliès film, The Mysterious Knight. Previously, these two films had only been available in black-and-white copies. The hand-colored print of The Devil in a Convent was judged to be in too advanced a state of decomposition to be restored completely, however, the third scene of the film was in good enough condition to be restored. Both films were entrusted to the Filmoteca de Catalunya for restoration, under the supervision of two Méliès scholars, Roland Cosandey and Jacques Malthête. (Source: Wikipedia; Quévrain, Anne-Marie (October 2014), "Deux films en couleurs de Georges Méliès retrouvés en Espagne!")
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Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.