Viaggio Nella Luna 1902 George Melies Ac3

Original title: Le voyage dans la Lune
Country of production: France
Year: 1902
Duration: 15 min (various versions)
Technical specifications: B / N, hand-colored
silent film
Genre: science fiction, comedy
Directed by: Georges Méliès
Subject: Jules Verne, H. G. Wells
Screenplay: Georges Méliès
Production House: Star Film
Photography: Michaut, Lucien Tainguy
Editing: Georges Méliès
Special Effects: Georges Méliès
Music: Georges Méliès
Backstage: Georges Méliès, Claudel


Interpreters and characters

Georges Méliès: President Barbenfouillis
Henri Delannoy: Captain
Victor André: Moon (face)
Bleuette Bernon: Girl on the Moon
Victor André: King of the Selenites
Brunnet: Astronomer
Depierre: Astronomer
Farjaux: Astronomer
Kelm: Astronomer
Jeanne d'Alcy
Châtelet Dance Body Ballers
Folies-Bergère Acrobats: Seleniuses







Voyage dans la moune (Voyage dans la moune) is a silent film from 1902 by Georges Méliès. Along with Journey Through the Impossible is one of his most famous films and is one of the masterpieces of cinema at its beginnings. The film is a parody based freely on the novels of the two fathers of science fiction From the Land to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men on the Moon by H. G. Wells

It is generally considered the first science fiction film, though preceded by some works by the same director. One of the initial scenes of the film, the spacecraft crashing on the Moon's eye (which has a human face), has entered the collective imagination and is one of the sequences that made the film history.




Astronomers' conference decides to shoot a bullet on the moon, and they sail into a cannon. While a group of dancers celebrates the event (Méliès, a showman, knew the importance of ballet dancers in entertainment shows), the bullet hits the moon, sticking directly to the eye of the eye and causing a visible irritation.

Once the travelers come down, they meet the Selenites, they are caught and presented to their kings. They manage to escape, and start falling down the bullet to Earth (according to an intuitive law of gravity), falling into the sea and then coming Reported in a port.