A Trip to the Moon 1902 Review

Overall: 5/5 – Fly me to the moon …

https://sometimesigetbored.co.uk/a-trip-to-the-moon-1902-review/

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I just watched the restored, colourised version of A Trip to the Moon (1902) and the documentary about its history and restoration (An Extraordinary Voyage 2011)

I left some thoughts on the film on Letterbxd but overall, I enjoyed it for the quirky and satirical film that it is

My ★★★★★ review of A Trip to the Moon on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/9cIK3N

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I never get sick of seeing that part when the fishtank is filmed to show the rocket hitting the water
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Some of Georges Méliès’s sketches for “A Trip to the Moon”/“Le Voyage dans la Lune”
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The color in “A Trip to the Moon” was hand painted onto the film at Élizabeth and Berthe Thuillier’s coloring lab in Paris when it was originally released. About 4-5% of Méliès’ films are estimated to have been colored this way
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It never fails to amaze me that this French magician was able to turn his ideas into all of these fantastic worlds
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First up is our first ever repeat BUT it’s a classic for a reason: George Méliès’s “Le Voyage dans la Lune” (1902) (https://youtu.be/zCMl11KAP40?si=xy3fvf4L3KdfnjTV)
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I still enjoy this 1902 movie, despite the lack of soundtrack.

I'd UL directly, but at 66.odd M, it's too big. So, a direct link will have to do.

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https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie.php?id=LeVoyageDansLaLun&type=.mp4

Film scholars think Georges Méliès was influenced by Jacques Offenbach's opera-féerie "Le voyage dans la lune," which was an unauthorized parody of Jules Verne's work. Here is a stereoscope card showing an image from it. #TCMParty #ATripToTheMoon #GeorgesMelies #JacquesOffenbach

French posters for “Le Voyage Dans la Lune”
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Just a head’s up next week #SilentSundayNights has Méliès’s “A Trip to the Moon” (1902) and Ingram’s “The Magician” (1926)
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On September 1, 1902, A Trip to the Moon debuted in France. Here’s some new art to celebrate!
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Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon was released 121 years ago today. That's when it all started.
Art by Georges Méliès.
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@rljenk Méliès! 😍🎞️📽️🌝 #SymSat #ATripToTheMoon

A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès (1902)
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

"…the #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 Selenites (lunar inhabitants) & return to #Earth with a captive Selenite. Méliès leads an ensemble cast of #French theatrical performers as the main character Professor Barbenfouillis…"

📽️ https://youtube.com/watch?v=DeLjzlFgiEE
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Just watching the #Assembled making of's and other behind the scenes (#BTS) shows about #BlackPanther or #WakandaForever is more than enough evidence to prove that these films are art and true cinema, every bit as much as #ATripToTheMoon, #KingKong, #JasonAndTheArgonauts, #2001, and #StarWars, as examples.

#CGI is part of #cinematic art, no less than #animation, #colorization, #celluloid, #color, or #sound.

And #visual #spectacle in service of a good #story is its core.

No face on the moon in this film either! It's like none of the sci-fi directors in tonight's features ever heard of the work of astronomer Georges Méliès!
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Not knocking Kubrick’s design team, they were definitely doing their best, but they forgot to put the face on the moon in a lot of these shots ...
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#2001ASpaceOdyssey
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So I've been seeing the #trend of directors sharing their #favoritefilms and I wanted to #JoinIn !
So here goes (no particular order)
1. #2001aspaceodyssey (Kubrick)
2. #scream (Craven)
3. #hellraiser (Barker)
4. #the400blows (Truffaut)
5. #parisisburning (Livingston)
6. #atriptothemoon (Méliès)
7. #startrekii #thewrathofkhan (Meyer)
8. #thelighthouse
9. #batmanbeyond #returnofthejoker (Geda)
10. #citizencane (Welles)

What are yours? 😋
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BOTD 1861 - magician turned cinema pioneer Georges Méliès.

Celebrated and revered for essentially creating special effects in movies. His most famous work is 1902's A Trip To The Moon

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