Voyage dans la Lune, Le/A Trip to the Moon (France, ), the screen's first science fiction story, was a 14 minute masterpiece (nearly one reel in length ( about.
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This tale is amongst the most influential pieces of European literature from that period, and inspired countless plays, novels, and indeed operas, especially in the baroque period.
Both the creative and research teams are working collaboratively to provide audiences with an opportunity to sense both contemporary and historical affective standpoints. One of the most important aspects of the project, however, is that it offers audiences a chance to engage actively with the creative work.
Voyage to the Moon
Planned opportunities include a number of pre- and post-performance talks with members of the creative team, as well as workshops with the musicians, seminars, and other events. So watch this space!
Suddenly, a flag is hoisted, and at the signal, the mass of molten steel is directed from the furnace into the mold for the cannon. The molding process produces flames and vapors, causing the enthusiastic astronomers to rejoice. On the tops of the roofs of the town, pompous preparations have been made. At the launch site, the rocket shell is in position, ready to receive the travelers. The travelers arrive - they respond and reply to the acclamations of the crowd and then enter the steel-riveted shell their space vehicle.
A scantily-clad female assistant closes the door behind them. Everyone anxiously awaits the signal to start the shell on its voyage to the moon - viewed in the far distance. An officer gives the signal for a man on a ladder to ignite the gun. The rocket shell is fired out of a monstrous iron cannon pointed into space.
Voyage to the Moon – Histories of Emotion
As the hollow, bullet-shaped shell moves through space, the moon approaches [in a sophisticated, multi-plane process shot] and is magnified. As in a fairy tale, it turns out to be a huge smiling face of "colossal dimensions" - it is one of the most recognizable images in film history and often used as the iconic symbol for early pioneering efforts in cinema. The rocket ship shell moves closer and closer to the moon, and then crashes into the pie-face, smack into the right eye of the Man in the Moon. Extremely unreal but very memorable, when the human-faced moon grimaces.
After "landing," the scientists' team steps onto the desolate lunar surface through the shell's door, delighted by the unfamiliar landscape marked by craters. Against the moon's horizon, the visitors from another planet dressed in Victorian garb look back and see the Earth slowly rising into space. To rest their fatigued bodies after a "rough trip," they stretch themselves out on the ground under blankets.
As they sleep - and dream, seven gigantic stars slowly appear in the blackness behind them. Out of the center of each of the stars emerges the face of a beautiful woman. All seem annoyed by the presence of the intruders on the Moon. The astronomers see passing comets and meteors in their dreams. Then, the stars are replaced by a lovely vision of goddess Phoebus Bleinette Bernon, a music hall singer sitting on a crescent moon she is on the Moon and also sitting on the Moon?
By order of Phoebus, they punish the terrestrials by causing a snowstorm, covering the ground with a white blanket of snow. The unfortunate voyagers wake up half-frozen in the cold. They decide without hesitation, and in spite of the danger, to descend into the interior of a great moon crater for shelter. They disappear, one by one, as the storm rages. In the lunar underground kingdom, the scientists arrive at a mysterious grotto filled with enormous mushrooms of every kind.
One of them opens his umbrella to compare its size to the mushroom, but the umbrella suddenly takes root and transforms itself into a mushroom and soon grows to gigantic proportions. Strange beings making contortions, moon inhabitants Selenites - acrobats from the Folies Bergere , emerge from under the mushrooms. One of the fantastic beings rushes at one of the astronomers who defends himself with his umbrella.
With a jab of the umbrella, the creature bursts into a thousand pieces in a puff of smoke.