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A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune)

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 692

Although A Trip to the Moon was the first motion picture to depict a lunar voyage, Méliès had little interest in the actual mechanics of space travel. Instead, he portrayed the moon as the dreamlike setting for a dazzling series of special effects.

A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune), Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (French, Paris 1861–1938 Paris), Digital video transferred from restored 35mm film, hand-colored, silent (with new score by Jeff Mills), 14 min.

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