 Georges
Méliès' A Trip to the Moon
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Star Film Company Running time: 13:56 minutes |
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Director: |
Georges Méliès |
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Producer: |
Georges Méliès |
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Screenplay: |
Georges Méliès |
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Photography: |
Michaut,
Lucien Tainguy |
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Professor Barbenfouillis |
Georges Méliès |
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Captain of the rocket |
Henri Delannoy |
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Phoebe, the moon |
Bleuette Bernon |
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Officer of the marines |
François Lallement |
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One of the astronomers |
Victor André |
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One of the astronomers |
Brunnet |
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One of the astronomers |
Depierre |
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One of the astronomers |
Farjaut |
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One of the astronomers |
Kelm |
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Stars |
Théâtre du Châtelet ballerinas |
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Selenites |
Folies-Bergères
acrobats |
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Scene Title |
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1 |
The Scientific Congress at the Astronomic Club. |
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Planning the Trip. Appointing the Explorers and Servants. Farewell. |
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The Workshops: Constructing the Projectile. |
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The Founderies. The Chimney-stacks. The casting of the Monster Gun. |
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The Astronomers enter the Shell. |
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Loading the Gun. |
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The Monster Gun. March Past of the Gunners. Fire!!! Saluting the Flag. |
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The Flight through Space. Approaching the Moon. |
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Landed Right into the Eye!!! |
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Flight of the Shell into the Moon. Appearance of the Earth from the Moon. |
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The Plain of Craters. Volcanic Eruption. |
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The Dream (the Bolies, the Great Bear, Phœbus, the Twin Stars Saturn). |
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The Snow Storm. |
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40 Degrees below Zero. Descending a Lunar Crater. |
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In the Interior of the Moon. The Giant Mushroom Grotto. |
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Encounter with the Selenites. Homeric Flight. |
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Prisoners!! |
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The Kingdom of the Moon. The Selenite Army. |
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The Flight. |
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Wild Pursuit. |
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The Astronomers find the Shell again. Departure from the Moon. |
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Vertical Drop into Space. |
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Splashing into the Open Sea. |
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At the Bottom of the Ocean. |
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The Rescue. Return to Port. |
| 26 | Great Fete. Triumphal March Past. |
| 27 | Crowning and Decorating the Heroes of the Trip. |
| 28 | Procession of Marines and the Fire Brigade. |
| 29 | Inauguration of the Commemorative Statue by the Mayor and Council. |
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30 |
Public Rejoicings. |
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Sources Le voyage dans la lune; Le voyage extraordinaire. [DVD]. Directed by Georges Méliès, Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange. France: Lobster Films, 2011. Solomon, M. [ed.]. Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès’s Trip to the Moon. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011.
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