Short Film· 1902· Science Fiction

Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon)

by Georges Méliès

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The Babadook

Film · 2014

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Jennifer Kent wanted The Babadook to feel low-tech and handmade, and said it was shaped by the crude, beautiful effects of Georges Méliès, "the grandfather of special effects", whose films the mother watches late at night.

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The First Men in the Moon

Book · 1901

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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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Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon)

A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed and produced by Georges Méliès. Inspired by the Jules Verne novel From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and its sequel Around the Moon (1870), the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites, and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. Méliès leads an ensemble cast of French theatrical performers as the main character Professor Barbenfouillis.