Voyage autour d'une étoile

An astronomer spots a lovely beckoning women on a crescent moon, then a cranky-looking Saturn looking out from a hatch in the ringed-planet, then another lovely star-maid. With the help of his much abused assistant, he encases himself in a giant soap bubble and floats into the heavens, where he cavorts with the celestial women. His effrontery angers the bearded God he had seen earlier, who casts him from the star, and when his umbrella fails to hold him up, he falls to his death, impaled on a weather vane. The film is a short, silly fantasy and not up to the quality (in either imagination or execution) of director Gaston Velle's contemporary Georges Méliès (although the sets are quite nice). The astronomer's relatively gruesome death is reminiscent the end of Dracula in Hammer's 'Dracula Has Risen from the Grave' (1968).