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A Trip to the Moon

A film of great historical importance.

frankde-jong
Aug 13, 2021
SnoopyStyle
Jul 2, 2019

Earliest Sci-Fi Phenomena in Cinema World. The first groundbreaking visual masterpiece of 20th Century.

SAMTHEBESTEST
Jan 21, 2021

Wonderfully imaginative and innovative

Jul 21, 2018

I can now say that I've seen a movie that's over 100 years old

lee_eisenberg
Jun 1, 2014

Narrative Development: Magic

Cineanalyst
Aug 1, 2004

Definitely cult!

FrenchEddieFelson
Apr 27, 2019

Tripping on the Moon.

morrison-dylan-fan
Jul 14, 2016

Early masterpiece of cinema

BrandtSponseller
Apr 19, 2005

Immortal classic!

Aug 7, 2006

Ground-Breaking

Jul 24, 2021

A Trip To The Moon

marmar-69780
Nov 10, 2020

Still Engaging.

Oct 12, 2014

Mostly Fascinating, With Some Pretty Bizzare Images.

ArmandoManuelPereira
Jun 11, 2020

A special movie by the father of special effects!

mianaliilyas786
Oct 21, 2006

The Science Fiction Genre of Film is Born

Dec 30, 2020
BandSAboutMovies
Oct 3, 2021

Trip to the Moon, A

Michael_Elliott
Mar 31, 2008

The Big Bang

unclesamsavage
Dec 28, 2019

The Time Machine

Nov 5, 2021

No wonder the moon was angry...

Apr 8, 2016

Fly me to the Moon

Horst_In_Translation
Sep 3, 2013
gbill-74877
Jul 19, 2019

Farce film shot almost 120 years ago

Oct 9, 2021

I'm glad to have seen it, but...

BA_Harrison
Apr 12, 2012

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Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902)

Le Voyage Dans la Lune (Trip to the Moon, in English) is perhaps Georges Méliès ' most famous film, and is considered to be the first science fiction film in cinematic history. The 12 minute film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of native moon inhabitants (known as Selenites), and return to Earth with one of them as captive. While at once a spoof of more serious science fiction, the film can also be seen as a comment on France's colonial exploits (it was at the time the world's second largest colonial power). Méliès himself plays, as was his wont, the main role of the wonderfully named Professor Barbenfouillis. When asked in 1930, Méliès cited Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon as the main influences for the film, but cinema historians have also mentioned the influence of Adolphe Dennery's stage adaption of Verne, and also H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon , a French translation of which was published only a few months before Méliès made the film. Jacques Offenbach's operetta Le voyage dans la lune (an unauthorized parody of Verne's novels) and also the "A Trip to the Moon" attraction at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, have also been talked of as being possible inspiration.