Caption:
A still
from Le Voyage dans la lune
(A Trip to the Moon) (1902)
by Georges Melies (1861--1938).
An early moonshot: literally
a shot at the
Moon.
Where
Le Voyage dans la lune is where
scifi films began---from
here to
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
and
Blade Runner (1982).
The film seems to be a loose combination of
Jules Verne's (1828--1905)
From the Earth to the
Moon (1865),
H. G. Wells' (1866--1946)
The First Men in the Moon (1901),
and the Folies Bergere (1869--).
Credit/Permission:
Georges Melies (1861--1938),
an early French
filmmaker,
1902
(uploaded to Wikipedia
by Magnus Manske,
2008) /
Public domain.
Image link: Wikipedia:
File:Le Voyage dans la lune.jpg.
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