A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French film directed, produced, written and also (partly) acted by Georges Méliès. The film is 18 minutes long (at 12 frames/s) or 9 minutes long (at 24 frames/s) and
is a silent, black and white film. It stars Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon and Henri Delannoy and was based on 'From the Earth to the Moon' and 'Around the Moon' (both) by Jules Verne which were late 1800's books also in French.
'A Trip to the Moon' was a very influential film for its age when it first came out. It was very popular - so much that other studios pirated it but was at first thought to have been a failure when it was originally shown at fairgrounds at a high price (before it was advertised elsewhere and heightened in popularity The narrative and heavy influence on the storytelling aspect of the piece which changed the way the narrative of a film was created and the film has since been named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century (84th out of 100).
This film is particularly relevant for the release of a few 'futuristic' H.G. Wells novels (War of the Worlds [1898] and The First Men in the Moon [1901] ). This was also a time of traditional work methods (not much modern automation - only from the industrial revolution 60 years earlier) where lots of people were needed to make products (unlike today) and 'space travel' or even 'air travel' didn't exist.
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