Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon)

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Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon)

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A Trip to the Moon is the most famous of the over 500 short films produced by cinema pioneer Georges Méliès betwen 1896 and 1912, and its signature image of a bullet-shaped rocket lodging itself in the eye of a smirking moon is one of the most recognizable images in cinema history. An accomplished magician, Méliès moved from simple recordings of his stage shows to dazzling fantasy epics which were among the first narrative films ever made. These "trick films" combined fantastic yarns, intricate painted sets, and elaborate costumes with such simple but effective special effects as slow motion, dissolves, and superimpositions. Like Méliès's other long films of the period, Trip to the Moon is composed of a series of tableaux, each featuring chaotic action and multiple camera tricks photographed with a stubbornly static camera, which work together to tell a simple story. It proved sensationally popular with audiences, though Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery rode a slightly more sophisticated narrative to greater success the following year. As one of the earliest examples of cinematic fantasy, A Trip to the Moon paved the way for such filmic flights of fancy as The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars, as it proved that the seduction of the audience through special effects has roots deeper than the blockbusters of the Seventies.

Cast

Vicotr Andre
Bleuette Bernon
as Phoebe the Moon
Brunnet
as Worker
Jeanne d'Alcy
Henri Delannoy
Victor André
as Worker
Dominique Delpierre
as Worker
Farjaux
as Worker
Farjaut
Kelm
as Worker
Georges Méliès
as Professor Barbenfoullis
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Audience Reviews for Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon)

  • Aug 25, 2019
    I just knew this was gonna have a high score on letterboxd. Yo, it's important, it's visionary, it's observable history, it's revolutionary for it's time, all that jazz. But guess what else? I don't for a minute believe those people actually went to the moon. Should still be required viewing for film classes though.
    Gimly M Super Reviewer
  • Feb 05, 2016
    Seventeen minutes of film that changed the then newly burgeoning medium forevermore.
    Kal X. A Super Reviewer
  • Apr 28, 2014
    A Trip to the Moon is worth the short runtime. It's the first sci-fi film and has been an influence to everything that has come after it. This is a nice little imaginative sci-fi film from one of filmmaking first pioneer. Putting into context when this was made and how short a period of time it had been since making films had even been possible, is pretty crazy to think about. Definitely give this one a look. It's nice to see where cinema started.
    Melvin W Super Reviewer
  • Apr 23, 2013
    You have to wonder what Georges Melies would do with the full range of film making techniques that exist today. Considering that he was operating at the birth of cinema, what he has come up with is marvelously creative with fun imagery.
    John B Super Reviewer
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