Google on Thursday paid tribute to Georges Méliès, the French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema, with a doodle. The first-ever virtual reality doodle celebrated the artist on the 106th anniversary of his most noted work, 'À la conquête du pôle', a 1912 French silent film loosely inspired by contemporary events and by Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires.

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