A Trip to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon or Voyage 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: Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon. 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 fra... More

Initial release date:

  • 1902

Directed by:

Runtime:

  • 8 min

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Also known as:

  • Un Viaje a la Luna,
  • Le Voyage dans la Lune,
  • A Trip to Mars

Film

Directed by

Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès (English pronunciation: /mɛ.li.'ez/); (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use...

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Release date(s):

  • 1902

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Runtime:

Runtime Note
  • 8 min
  • @ 25 fps
  • 14 min
  • @ 16fps.
  • 16 min
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Estimated budget:

Currency Amount
  • 10,000
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Adapted From

From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune, 1865) is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that...

The First Men in the Moon

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