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Cast
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| Victor André | ... | Astronomer (uncredited) | |
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Bleuette Bernon | ... | Lady in the Moon (uncredited) |
| Brunnet | ... | Astronomer (uncredited) | |
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Jehanne d'Alcy | ... | Secretary / Star / Rocket Attendant (uncredited) |
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Henri Delannoy | ... | Captain of the Rocket (uncredited) |
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Delpierre | ... | Astronomer (uncredited) |
| Farjaux | ... | Astronomer (uncredited) | |
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Kelm | ... | Astronomer (uncredited) |
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François Lallement | ... | Officer of the Marines (uncredited) |
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Jules-Eugène Legris | ... | Parade Leader (uncredited) |
| Georges Méliès | ... | Prof. Barbenfouillis / The Moon (uncredited) | |
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A group of men travel to the moon by being shot in a capsule from a giant cannon. They are captured by moon-men, escape, and return to the earth. Written by John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
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Country:
FranceLanguage:
FrenchRelease Date:
4 October 1902 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Trip to Mars See more »Filming Locations:
Méliès Studios, Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, FranceEdit
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FRF 30,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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(2011 Version)
Written by Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin
Performed by Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin (as Air)
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In the color version with music by Air, the garbled speech heard when the Professor is speaking is a recording of Cosmology by Peter Cole, played backward. See more »Goofs
The size of the space capsule is inconsistent throughout the entire feature. It is, apparently, big enough to carry multiple people, yet when a Selenite is seen on the back of the capsule following its return to the Earth, he is almost as big as the entire capsule. See more »Soundtracks
Cosmic Trip(2011 Version)
Written by Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin
Performed by Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin (as Air)
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Georges Melies is often credited with being the cinema's father of fantasy, and his 1902 short A Trip to the Moon would seem to support that contention. Full of imaginative uses of editing and photography and inspired by the works of Jules Verne, the film contains one of the most recognizable images in motion picture history: the sleek, steel-riveted rocket ship jutting out from one of the eye sockets of an expressive man in the moon. Most historical accounts of Melies indicate that he was a trained stage magician whose skills were well-adapted to the new medium of the cinema, but he was also the first filmmaker to produce "commercials" (in the sense of advertising films for a variety of companies). A Trip to the Moon is still surprisingly enjoyable and bursts with many of Melies' technical innovations.