A Trip to the Moon Quotes
1902 films, French films, Silent films, Short films, Science fiction films, Adventure films, Extraterrestrial life films, Moon-related films
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“Labor omnia vincit”
“Jules-Eugène Legris — the parade leader”
“Henri Delannoy — the captain of the rocket”
“François Lallement — the officer of the marines”
“Victor André, Delpierre, Farjaux, Kelm, and Brunnet — the astronomers”
“AllMovie: A Trip to the Moon”
“Wikipedia: A Trip to the Moon”
“Rotten Tomatoes: A Trip to the Moon”
“Georges Méliès — Professor Barbenfouillis”
“Internet Movie Database (IMDb): A Trip to the Moon”
“Le Voyage dans la lune was not only the first science fiction film, but also the first cinematic spoof of the genre.”
“Bleuette Bernon — Phoebe (the lady on the crescent moon)”
“Wikicommons: Le voyage dans la lune (film)”
“Was the NASA splash down inspired by Georges Méliès? — A letter to NASA”
“In its depiction of the exploration of a faraway place and hostile encounter with alien life forms, Le Voyage dans la lune can easily be read as a parable of colonial conflict.”
“ A Trip to the Moon complete film on YouTube”
“The hand-colored, restored version of A Trip to the Moon on Hulu”
“In one of his greatest films, A TRIP TO THE MOON (Le Voyage dans la lune), the moon harbors a grimacing man in the moon and the stars a bull's-eyes studded with pretty faces of music hall girls.”
“Méliès also created edited sequences by breaking scenes down into several discrete shots, sometimes resulting in an effect of rapid montage, as in Le Voyage dans la lune/A Trip to the Moon (1902), in which the rocket's descent to Earth is shown in a four-shot sequence lasting two-and-a-half seconds.”
“As the longest and most expensive of the early féeries, Le Voyage dans la lune constitutes not only a culmination of Méliès's work but also a significant advance. It mixes theatrical and cinematic devices in both old and new ways, it privileges clous f spectacle by means of extended narrative continuity, and, surprisingly, it experiments with dividing up and reconstituting the autonomous shot-scene.”