Le Voyage dans la Lune

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black and white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells. The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his brother Gaston. The film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per second, which was the standard frame rate at the time... more

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  • 1902

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  • 8 min (4.8 hs )

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Also known as:

  • Un Viaje a la Luna,
  • A Trip to the Moon

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Directed by

Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects. He accidentally discovered the stop trick, or...

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Runtime Note
  • 8 min (4.8 hs )
  • @ 25 fps
  • 14 min (8.4 hs )
  • @ 16fps.
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  • 10,000
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From the Earth to the Moon

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