Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Six scholars, members of the Astronomers’ Club, set off on an expedition to the moon. Traveling in a bullet-shaped rocket, these voyagers arrive to meet the moon’s inhabitants: the Selenites. Having to escape the Selenties’ king, the scholars will try to return to Earth in their rocket.
Six scholars, members of the Astronomers’ Club, set off on an expedition to the moon. Traveling in a bullet-shaped rocket, these voyagers arrive to meet the moon’s inhabitants: the Selenites. Having to escape the Selenties’ king, the scholars will try to return to Earth in their rocket.
Hailed as the first sci-fi film, George Méliès’s seminal short embodies the spellbinding possibilities of cinema as a vessel of dreams that shoots for the stars. Achieved through inventive special effects, the image of a rocket ship striking a grimacing moon is forever immortalized in film history.