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The First Men in the Moon influenced Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon)
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The influence
The First Men in the Moon
Book · 1901
The work it shaped
Le Voyage dans la Lune A Trip to the Moon
Short Film · 1902
The evidence
Méliès drew on Verne for the launch and on Wells, whose novel appeared the year before, for what happens on the Moon: the Selenites, the underground lunar kingdom and the capture of the explorers by its king all come from Wells.
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