A Trip to the Moon

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A Trip to the Moon

1902

14m

Adventure

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

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Astronomers go on an expedition to the moon.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

02/08/2023

4/4

A treat for cineastes and sci-fi fans alike.

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Tony Black

Cultural Conversation

02/08/2021

4/5

Melies was a true visionary and pioneer who shall always be remembered as will A Trip to the Moon, as partly where everything we love as film fans and dramatists began.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

08/01/2020

7/10

Melies was clearly pushing boundaries and demonstrating the potential for narrative storytelling, searching for product that couldn't be emulated by the stage.

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Pamela Hutchinson

Silent London

03/26/2020

This is live-action film, but transformed by Méliès's ingenious in-camera editing and those gorgeous paints to be something more like a cartoon. It's gorgeous, it's ludicrous and it's heaps of fun.

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Tyler Smith

Battleship Pretension

07/09/2019

It has not lost much of its original power, to dazzle and entertain.

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

06/03/2019

4/4

That childlike wonder at the power of cinema is what makes A Trip to the Moon, and indeed all of Méliès' work, so very special

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Charlie B.

@Charliebird 1d

Absolutely terrifying. This movie is older than the Titanic. Forget watching ghost stories and horror movies. This movie is the ghost. The soundtrack is haunting and dizzying in the way it spirals. Every actor has been long dead. The ruff condition of the actual film. This film is 100% haunted.

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Welll A

@Azevader88 4d

A Gênese da Linguagem Narrativa Clássica utilizada no cinema até hoje. Genial.

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Brad T

@Ilovemovies506 Dec 11

I watched this 3 times it's is very awesome 😂the moons face was funny tho

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Jose I

@RT23212414 Oct 6

This movie was groundbreaking at the time, having the best effects ever and nothing could seem to top it. The story is creative, but this film is really not that good at today's standards. Compared to other pictures from the 1920s forwards, this is incredibly boring and the visual effects, as expected, do not hold up to today's standards. I'm not saying it's not worth a watch, as any cinephile like me can see how far we've come over the past century, but if I wanted to watch a sci-fi classic I'd put on 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Christopher C

@RT18582802 Sep 26

Christopher B was kinda right, but the other person has a point.

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Tyler S

@tylerking24 Sep 20

Very simple, but a masterful production.

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Georges Méliès

Director

Jeanne d'Alcy

Secretary

Georges Méliès

Prof. Barbenfouillis

Victor André

Astronomer

Bleuette Bernon

Lady in the Moon

Brunnet

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Synopsis

Astronomers go on an expedition to the moon.

Director: Georges Méliès
Producer: Georges Méliès
Screenwriter: Georges Méliès
Production Co: Star Films
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 4, 1902, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 27, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $45.4K
Runtime: 14m

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