A Trip to the Moon - AKA - Le voyage dans la lune - 1902

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Entertainment Film & Movies A Trip to the Moon (French: Le voyage dans la lune)[a] is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide variety of sources including Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and its 1870 sequel Around the Moon the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule explore the Moon's surface escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants) and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. Méliès leads an ensemble cast of French theatrical performers as the main character Professor Barbenfouillis in the overtly theatrical style for which he became famous.

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le voyage dans la lune)[a] is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and its 1870 sequel Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. Méliès leads an ensemble cast of French theatrical performers as the main character Professor Barbenfouillis, in the overtly theatrical style for which he became famous.

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