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A Trip to the Moon
History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk
There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is learning what machinery can do. Human beings are discovering that they can build not only devices, but dreams.
And yet, to watch the film closely is to feel a disturbance beneath the delight.
The voyage is not simply a journey. It is an invasion. The moon is not approached with humility or reverence, but penetrated, subdued, and turned into a stage for conquest. The lunar beings are encountered not as neighbors in wonder but as hostile “natives,” there to be struck, shattered, and overcome. The travelers return not merely with experience, but with a captive and a triumphal procession. What looks at first like fantasy reveals itself as a little parable of empire.
That is why the film still matters. It is not only an early science-fiction spectacle. It is an early warning.
Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.
#ATripToTheMoon #Artemis #colonialism #Conquest #culturalCritique #EarlyCinema #Empire #FearOfTheUnknown #FilmReflection #HonoringMystery #humanNature #Lament #Modernity #MoonRace #Moonfall #moralImagination #mystery #Otherness #propheticReflection #Racism #Reverence #scienceFiction #SpaceExploration #StarsAndEmpire #TechnologyAndEthics #Violence #Wonder -
A Trip to the Moon
History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk
There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is learning what machinery can do. Human beings are discovering that they can build not only devices, but dreams.
And yet, to watch the film closely is to feel a disturbance beneath the delight.
The voyage is not simply a journey. It is an invasion. The moon is not approached with humility or reverence, but penetrated, subdued, and turned into a stage for conquest. The lunar beings are encountered not as neighbors in wonder but as hostile “natives,” there to be struck, shattered, and overcome. The travelers return not merely with experience, but with a captive and a triumphal procession. What looks at first like fantasy reveals itself as a little parable of empire.
That is why the film still matters. It is not only an early science-fiction spectacle. It is an early warning.
Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.
#ATripToTheMoon #Artemis #colonialism #Conquest #culturalCritique #EarlyCinema #Empire #FearOfTheUnknown #FilmReflection #HonoringMystery #humanNature #Lament #Modernity #MoonRace #Moonfall #moralImagination #mystery #Otherness #propheticReflection #Racism #Reverence #scienceFiction #SpaceExploration #StarsAndEmpire #TechnologyAndEthics #Violence #Wonder -
And set your DVRs b/c next week’s #SilentSundayNights is a TRIPLE FEATURE: “Ballet Mécanique” (1923/24)🇫🇷, “Le Voyage dans La Lune” (1902)🇫🇷 AND “A Page of Madness” (1926)🇯🇵
#TCMParty #BalletMacanique #ATripToTheMoon #APageOfMadness #horror #SilentFilm #scifi -
And set your DVRs b/c next week’s #SilentSundayNights is a TRIPLE FEATURE: “Ballet Mécanique” (1923/24)🇫🇷, “Le Voyage dans La Lune” (1902)🇫🇷 AND “A Page of Madness” (1926)🇯🇵
#TCMParty #BalletMacanique #ATripToTheMoon #APageOfMadness #horror #SilentFilm #scifi -
And set your DVRs b/c next week’s #SilentSundayNights is a TRIPLE FEATURE: “Ballet Mécanique” (1923/24)🇫🇷, “Le Voyage dans La Lune” (1902)🇫🇷 AND “A Page of Madness” (1926)🇯🇵
#TCMParty #BalletMacanique #ATripToTheMoon #APageOfMadness #horror #SilentFilm #scifi -
And set your DVRs b/c next week’s #SilentSundayNights is a TRIPLE FEATURE: “Ballet Mécanique” (1923/24)🇫🇷, “Le Voyage dans La Lune” (1902)🇫🇷 AND “A Page of Madness” (1926)🇯🇵
#TCMParty #BalletMacanique #ATripToTheMoon #APageOfMadness #horror #SilentFilm #scifi -
And set your DVRs b/c next week’s #SilentSundayNights is a TRIPLE FEATURE: “Ballet Mécanique” (1923/24)🇫🇷, “Le Voyage dans La Lune” (1902)🇫🇷 AND “A Page of Madness” (1926)🇯🇵
#TCMParty #BalletMacanique #ATripToTheMoon #APageOfMadness #horror #SilentFilm #scifi -
Pauline Méliès: "Georges Méliès knew that cinema would become an industry one day"
TAGS: #PaulineMelies #PaulineMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMelies #GeorgesMelies #GeorgesMéliès #LeVoyagedansLaLune #ATripToTheMoon #FilmPioneer #Hugo #MartinScorsese #PereLachaise #PèreLachaise #FilmHistory #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
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Pauline Méliès: “Georges Méliès knew that cinema would become an industry one day”
TAGS: #PaulineMelies #PaulineMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMelies #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #GeorgesMelies #GeorgesMéliès #LeVoyagedansLaLune #ATripToTheMoon #FilmPioneer #Hugo #MartinScorsese #FilmHistory #FilmNews #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
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Pauline Méliès: "Georges Méliès knew that cinema would become an industry one day"
TAGS: #PaulineMelies #PaulineMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMelies #GeorgesMelies #GeorgesMéliès #LeVoyagedansLaLune #ATripToTheMoon #FilmPioneer #Hugo #MartinScorsese #PereLachaise #PèreLachaise #FilmHistory #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
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Pauline Méliès: “Georges Méliès knew that cinema would become an industry one day”
TAGS: #PaulineMelies #PaulineMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMelies #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #GeorgesMelies #GeorgesMéliès #LeVoyagedansLaLune #ATripToTheMoon #FilmPioneer #Hugo #MartinScorsese #FilmHistory #FilmNews #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
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Pauline Méliès: “Georges Méliès knew that cinema would become an industry one day”
TAGS: #PaulineMelies #PaulineMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMéliès #PaulineDuclaudLacosteMelies #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #GeorgesMelies #GeorgesMéliès #LeVoyagedansLaLune #ATripToTheMoon #FilmPioneer #Hugo #MartinScorsese #FilmHistory #FilmNews #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
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A Trip to the Moon 1902 Review
Overall: 5/5 – Fly me to the moon …
https://sometimesigetbored.co.uk/a-trip-to-the-moon-1902-review/
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A Trip to the Moon 1902 Review
Overall: 5/5 – Fly me to the moon …
https://sometimesigetbored.co.uk/a-trip-to-the-moon-1902-review/
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A Trip to the Moon 1902 Review
Overall: 5/5 – Fly me to the moon …
https://sometimesigetbored.co.uk/a-trip-to-the-moon-1902-review/
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A Trip to the Moon 1902 Review
Overall: 5/5 – Fly me to the moon …
https://sometimesigetbored.co.uk/a-trip-to-the-moon-1902-review/
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A Trip to the Moon 1902 Review
Overall: 5/5 – Fly me to the moon …
https://sometimesigetbored.co.uk/a-trip-to-the-moon-1902-review/
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I just watched the restored, colourised version of A Trip to the Moon (1902) and the documentary about its history and restoration (An Extraordinary Voyage 2011)
I left some thoughts on the film on Letterbxd but overall, I enjoyed it for the quirky and satirical film that it is
My ★★★★★ review of A Trip to the Moon on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/9cIK3N
#movie #movies #cinemastodon #nowwatching #atriptothemoon #Letterboxd
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I just watched the restored, colourised version of A Trip to the Moon (1902) and the documentary about its history and restoration (An Extraordinary Voyage 2011)
I left some thoughts on the film on Letterbxd but overall, I enjoyed it for the quirky and satirical film that it is
My ★★★★★ review of A Trip to the Moon on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/9cIK3N
#movie #movies #cinemastodon #nowwatching #atriptothemoon #Letterboxd
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I just watched the restored, colourised version of A Trip to the Moon (1902) and the documentary about its history and restoration (An Extraordinary Voyage 2011)
I left some thoughts on the film on Letterbxd but overall, I enjoyed it for the quirky and satirical film that it is
My ★★★★★ review of A Trip to the Moon on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/9cIK3N
#movie #movies #cinemastodon #nowwatching #atriptothemoon #Letterboxd
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I just watched the restored, colourised version of A Trip to the Moon (1902) and the documentary about its history and restoration (An Extraordinary Voyage 2011)
I left some thoughts on the film on Letterbxd but overall, I enjoyed it for the quirky and satirical film that it is
My ★★★★★ review of A Trip to the Moon on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/9cIK3N
#movie #movies #cinemastodon #nowwatching #atriptothemoon #Letterboxd
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I just watched the restored, colourised version of A Trip to the Moon (1902) and the documentary about its history and restoration (An Extraordinary Voyage 2011)
I left some thoughts on the film on Letterbxd but overall, I enjoyed it for the quirky and satirical film that it is
My ★★★★★ review of A Trip to the Moon on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/9cIK3N
#movie #movies #cinemastodon #nowwatching #atriptothemoon #Letterboxd
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Georges Melies'in 1902 yapımı "Ay Gezisi" filminden bir sahne📽️
#georgesmelies #atriptothemoon -
Georges Melies'in 1902 yapımı "Ay Gezisi" filminden bir sahne📽️
#georgesmelies #atriptothemoon -
Georges Melies'in 1902 yapımı "Ay Gezisi" filminden bir sahne📽️
#georgesmelies #atriptothemoon -
I never get sick of seeing that part when the fishtank is filmed to show the rocket hitting the water
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
I never get sick of seeing that part when the fishtank is filmed to show the rocket hitting the water
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
I never get sick of seeing that part when the fishtank is filmed to show the rocket hitting the water
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
I never get sick of seeing that part when the fishtank is filmed to show the rocket hitting the water
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
I never get sick of seeing that part when the fishtank is filmed to show the rocket hitting the water
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
Some of Georges Méliès’s sketches for “A Trip to the Moon”/“Le Voyage dans la Lune”
#SilentFlickerSunday #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
Some of Georges Méliès’s sketches for “A Trip to the Moon”/“Le Voyage dans la Lune”
#SilentFlickerSunday #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
Some of Georges Méliès’s sketches for “A Trip to the Moon”/“Le Voyage dans la Lune”
#SilentFlickerSunday #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
Some of Georges Méliès’s sketches for “A Trip to the Moon”/“Le Voyage dans la Lune”
#SilentFlickerSunday #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
Some of Georges Méliès’s sketches for “A Trip to the Moon”/“Le Voyage dans la Lune”
#SilentFlickerSunday #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
The color in “A Trip to the Moon” was hand painted onto the film at Élizabeth and Berthe Thuillier’s coloring lab in Paris when it was originally released. About 4-5% of Méliès’ films are estimated to have been colored this way
#SilentFlickerSunday #ElizabethThuillier #BertheThuillier #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
The color in “A Trip to the Moon” was hand painted onto the film at Élizabeth and Berthe Thuillier’s coloring lab in Paris when it was originally released. About 4-5% of Méliès’ films are estimated to have been colored this way
#SilentFlickerSunday #ElizabethThuillier #BertheThuillier #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
The color in “A Trip to the Moon” was hand painted onto the film at Élizabeth and Berthe Thuillier’s coloring lab in Paris when it was originally released. About 4-5% of Méliès’ films are estimated to have been colored this way
#SilentFlickerSunday #ElizabethThuillier #BertheThuillier #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
The color in “A Trip to the Moon” was hand painted onto the film at Élizabeth and Berthe Thuillier’s coloring lab in Paris when it was originally released. About 4-5% of Méliès’ films are estimated to have been colored this way
#SilentFlickerSunday #ElizabethThuillier #BertheThuillier #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
The color in “A Trip to the Moon” was hand painted onto the film at Élizabeth and Berthe Thuillier’s coloring lab in Paris when it was originally released. About 4-5% of Méliès’ films are estimated to have been colored this way
#SilentFlickerSunday #ElizabethThuillier #BertheThuillier #GeorgesMelies #SilentFilm #SciFi #ATripToTheMoon -
It never fails to amaze me that this French magician was able to turn his ideas into all of these fantastic worlds
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
It never fails to amaze me that this French magician was able to turn his ideas into all of these fantastic worlds
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
It never fails to amaze me that this French magician was able to turn his ideas into all of these fantastic worlds
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
It never fails to amaze me that this French magician was able to turn his ideas into all of these fantastic worlds
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
It never fails to amaze me that this French magician was able to turn his ideas into all of these fantastic worlds
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon -
First up is our first ever repeat BUT it’s a classic for a reason: George Méliès’s “Le Voyage dans la Lune” (1902) (https://youtu.be/zCMl11KAP40?si=xy3fvf4L3KdfnjTV)
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon #GeorgeMelies -
First up is our first ever repeat BUT it’s a classic for a reason: George Méliès’s “Le Voyage dans la Lune” (1902) (https://youtu.be/zCMl11KAP40?si=xy3fvf4L3KdfnjTV)
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon #GeorgeMelies -
First up is our first ever repeat BUT it’s a classic for a reason: George Méliès’s “Le Voyage dans la Lune” (1902) (https://youtu.be/zCMl11KAP40?si=xy3fvf4L3KdfnjTV)
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon #GeorgeMelies -
First up is our first ever repeat BUT it’s a classic for a reason: George Méliès’s “Le Voyage dans la Lune” (1902) (https://youtu.be/zCMl11KAP40?si=xy3fvf4L3KdfnjTV)
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon #GeorgeMelies -
First up is our first ever repeat BUT it’s a classic for a reason: George Méliès’s “Le Voyage dans la Lune” (1902) (https://youtu.be/zCMl11KAP40?si=xy3fvf4L3KdfnjTV)
#SilentFlickerSunday #ATripToTheMoon #GeorgeMelies