A Trip to the Moon (1902)

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For those not familiar with the story. This is the movie that the moon (or pizza face looking object) is shot in the eye with a bullet looking rocket ship.

Today is the anniversary of Georges Méliès science fiction/comedy. And if you never saw the silent movie please sit back and spend 15 minutes. Then think how far we had come.

There is a colorized version that was painted by hand and found recently in a barn in France. This is also the most complete version of the story because it was assumed to be lost (or the film was mostly lost) in the 1920's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvhTo2-0BQg

the story was also remade in 1908

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4-DNo9I7HY


Georges Méliès also made The Astronomers Dream (1898). There are a good number of similarities between Dream and Moon which leads me to believe that A Trip to the Moon was part 2 of The Astronomers Dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8SMIiQZUcs

have fun watching and please post some comments :)