Georges Méliès: Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)

Le voyage dans la lune - 1902
(CineCola - cinema from Matt Micucci's point of view)
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a group of astronomers indulged in pataphysics travel to the moon by being shot in a capsule from a giant cannon, are captured by Selenites, escape, and return to the earth (John Oswalt); loosely based on Jules Verne's De la terre à la lune and Autour de la Lune, also on H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his brother Gaston, Georges Méliès being also the lead personage, a guy named Professor Barbenfouillis (wiki); the film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per second, which was the standard frame rate at the time the film was produced (mittinscat1).

Le voyage dans la lune - 1902
soundtrack: Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Laurence Rosenthal
(video by mittinscat1)

(Georges Méliès)

Georges Méliès: Le Mélomane (1903)

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Méliès was a true genius and pioneer in the craft of making films. With his incredible sense of humor and curiosity, the imagination of audiences could explore regions never before envisioned. Being a true student of the technology of the time, he set a standard for special effects which holds up, even in today’s world of computer generated effects. He invented techniques such as the stop trick and was one of the first to use such features as dissolves, time lapse photography, multiple exposures, and color.

(http://www.wwangle.com/blog/tag/georges-melies/)

Georges Méliès: Le Mélomane (1903)
(video by HistoireTube)

(Georges Méliès)

Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès, ca 1890
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Magicien de profession, Georges Méliès décida de devenir réalisateur suite à la découverte du cinématographe. Cependant, si ses premiers court-métrages n'étaient que des imitation des films des frères Lumière, Méliès, suite à son installation au studio de Montreuil, commença à réaliser des films véritablement uniques.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfwgA6mBu0)

[Magician by profession, Georges Méliès decided to become a filmmaker as he discovered the cinema. While his first short films were just imitating the movies of the Lumière brothers, it was after his installation at the Montreuil studio that Méliès began to make truly unique films]

• Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)
• Le Mélomane (1903)

(Early Movies)

(Cinéma Français)