A Trip to the Moon in B&W (Hodges) (1902)
A Trip to the Moon (1902) • 12m
A beautifully restored black-and-white edition from original 35mm elements with two separate audio tracks of music: An orchestral score by composer Robert Israel; and a second track produced by Russell Merritt consisting of a troupe of actors voicing the various characters as originally written by Georges Méliès and performed in the U.S. in 1903, with piano accompaniment by Frederick Hodges.
Follow six scholars—members of the Astronomers’ Club—as they set off on an expedition to the moon! Traveling in a bullet-shaped rocket fired into space by a giant cannon, these voyagers arrive to meet the moon’s inhabitants: the Selenites. Escaping the Selentes’ king, the scholars fall back to Earth in their rocket and are fished out of the ocean by a sailor. Applause and a triumphant parade for the six heroes concludes the first outer-space adventure in the history of cinema.
INCLUDES ENGLISH SDH
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