A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la lune - 1902

[@koreanjaefish]

If only movies like Gravity and Interstellar were as scientifically accurate like the spectacle we see here.

[@leftmikerightmike]

Gravity kind of was. The entire plot was built around George Clooney dying because of an imaginary force pulling him away.

[@GeerHedVR]

This movie is 110 years old.. And I dare anyone here on youtube remake this video from scratch.. and do it better.

[@yourmajesty7592]

I remember this movie. I was an extra in it 😊

[@irened.]

@@yourmajesty7592 Pfft! That's nothing! I just uploaded a film that's 118 yrs old and I did the special effects! XD

[@jazzram_]

I just did and I did not save it ;(

[@edddddization]

who the hell even downvotes a 1902 black and white sci fi film? Sorry, were the special effects not good enough for you?

[@boojay111]

morons

[@terminatorx2545]

It’s really good imo. It’s amazing to watch people that were born in the 1800s. How animated they were!

[@vandread]

People who get it in their recommendations who din't want it there. Or people who where looking for something else... Or mabye just misclicks

[@captainsternn7684]

@@terminatorx2545 Very true, especially with how stoic they all seem in their pictures!

[@irened.]

Francophobes, that's whom!

[@louisbrasil4090]

Back at the time when Cinema was FRENCH. A time without Hollywood.

[@Pubs9495]

in those days, thomas edison basically had a monopoly on american film thanks to one of his patent companies

[@TheSamukaCan]

Was an european time. Its impressive how a war can change a country. Before WW1, US didn't exist..

[@jordan554]

star wars better

[@zamirstuff]

@@Pubs9495 Even he "pirated" this movie screening a copy in US before Méliès had a chance

[@irened.]

We invented the very best of things: film, cinema, perfumes, cooking, baguettes, fromage, fashion etc. That's why yanks hate us cos everything is better in French and in France! XD EDITING so YT doesn't truncate my words: Also we rewrote and then dubbed Jerry Lewis to actually make him FUNNY!

[@jillybeanss]

I remember watching this with my dad when I was younger. I have fond memories of this film because it was something silly, genius, and enjoyable all wrapped into one 12 minute movie, and it brought us closer together. But for some reason, I never bothered to ask what it was called. By chance, I rediscovered not only the film but its backstory by watching Hugo a couple weeks ago. I'm so glad I found this again. Thank you, Melies, for making life a little more enjoyable :)

[@SnarkyBark1]

"Hugo" brought me here. What a wonderful film honoring the movie innovator, Georges Melies!

[@oscarlobaton979]

This is very good to be the first SCI FI of the history!

[@TheEinstein78]

An elegant masterpiece that captures the possibility of shapes to come.

[@winterweib]

A thought I often have watching old movies, pics etc.And which I had as a child in a bus or so:'One hundred years later nobody of us will still be alive.We have so much sorrows but nobody will remember'.This was really sad too.

[@delphzouzou4520]

Guys, this movie isn't made to be scientificaly accurate, neither was Star Wars. It's a dream, a fantasy, an acid trip without LSD, a fairy tale made with a lot of imagination and technical inventions.

[@gatheringleaves]

+Delph Zouzou How inisightful

[@64roo]

Agreed Opiates were big round that time though :)

[@SamuelWirajaya]

As an aspiring engineer, I feel deeply offended. I do not know for sure whether NASA has been bullshitting us. It is entirely possible, but I don't see why Apollo missions were scientifically impossible. *Humanity is technologically more developed than you probably think.* Even the Ancient Greeks and Chinese know how to make things move on their own, through hydraulics and pneumatics. 19-20th century engineers developed electric motors. Wartime engineers developed radio technology, and perfected control theory. We had television technology, even in the 1960s. I don't see why the engineers at NASA can just steal all these technology to MacGyver an automated TV camera that filmed the lander taking off from the moon. Rockets? The Ancient Chinese knew that technology. Tsiolkovsky and von Braun perfected that. Radiation shielding? What did the 1940s bombers at Hiroshima use to protect the pilots from getting cooked from their own atomic bomb? Now just make them thicker to protect those filthy astrynaughts. Air con? We can just use the same technology as scuba diving and hospitals catering to lung-sick patients, they are totally not new technologies. Hook them up to the A/C system. Navigation? Ever heard of gyroscopes? They are fun things, and the mechanics of the gyroscope was pretty well-understood even in the 1700s, thanks to L. Euler. *Yes, most of these technologies are terribly expensive at that time, so NASA conspiracy could be real. But I just don't see why moon landing is impossible using 1960s technologies.* Remember that Soviets were also racing for the moon. If KGB had somehow reasoned that moon landing is fake, the Soviets would be dying to tell the whole world that Apollo is bullshit. Yet they did not. None of these can be explained by straight answers. Try learning any engineering (not just space engineering) only by getting straight answers, you can't. In fact, the beauty of our technology lies in the complexity that emerges from simple physical laws; those complexities can't be explained by simple comments in the press releases. --- That said, could we just stand back and reflect what wonders has mankind did in the past 10 millennia? And what can we do to shape our future? It's truly, truly marvelous; there is no point in second-guessing ourselves; there is no point to be bothered with petty politics of all this.

[@santiagorestrepo6339]

well well, aspiring engineer. I hope once you advence in your courses you will find that Newtons third law (action reacion), requieres a medium (air or water) to enable the propulsion forces to act on it....So if Space is a vaccum then there is no way rocket tecnology could possibly work on the vaccum. And Yes, NASA has been deceving the public long time ago....We could say is the biggest propaganda corporation in the earth

[@SamuelWirajaya]

rockets, unlike jet engines, can work in vacuum, and it is consistent with Newton's third law. do you even know what a rocket is, and how is it different from jet engines? explain the difference between the two and we can start debating the above point.

[@foodlovingpig]

You've got to admit, those special effects have held up a lot better than a lot of the more modern effects. It just goes to show that effort, ingenuity, and skill will go a hell of a lot further than technology.

[@fatallegend1]

"We need to get a man on the moon." "Uhh...... we could put them in a giant bullet and shoot them at it?" "..........BRILLIANT! But wait, how are they supposed to get back to Earth?" "Oh. That's easy. Just have them push the bullet off the edge and they'll fall back down." "GENIUS"

[@nebby_ya_boi257]

Creative at least

[@bobbyelias9642]

This movie should be every history textbook for being one the first movies ever made.

[@PremierPrep]

I find George Melies' work really inspiring! He was so far ahead of his time. He also helps remind us that no matter what our resources are, we can make great movies. I love watching films such as this that were so influential to all filmmakers. LIKE ME! :)

[@Thesmoltrouble]

This is one Of my favorites!! the Good Old days, I never get tired Of this movie. Love it!! ♥

[@thomasminecraftnl]

They dreamed about visiting the moon, they had never seen it.

[@arkeshajay]

More than anything else, this speaks to me of the joy of film making. And imagination, of course.

[@0rnami]

I am glad that Hugo brings these films into the minds of viewers. I believe that the heart of film making was in it's infancy, when it wasn't about making money. Back then, film makers had the time of their lives watching their imagination come to life on the screen and breathing life into the wondrous ideas they had. Films, I feel, had a heart and a soul in those days, and they were made with love. Hugo is an exceptional film by my standards, and I mean that in the truest sense of the word.

[@bb1111116]

George Méliès, you were brilliant!

[@michaelheston5176]

thats a good short for 1900s 5 stars

[@xijinmusic]

I was in absolute awe of the action scenes the first time I watched this, still am. The moon king body slam!

[@MaGsHQ]

It's crazy to think that every single person in this is dead, and probably has been for a very long time..

[@gatheringleaves]

+Scalith_ Not necessarily...

[@MauricioCalderonisme]

+Scalith_ Cool cat loves you

[@gc3k]

Why would it be? It was made 110+ years ago

[@kimberlysmith579]

Scalith_ Except the moon 🌝

[@dscribbz]

Hugo didn't bring me here, I came here on my own. I saw the film when I was a freshman in high school, and fell in love with Melies work. He's the reason I decided to go into film.

[@matthewspence7476]

Holy shit I can't believe how amazing the audio is for that time.

[@niamhrk8451]

The original film has no sound, somebody has added sound for this KZbin video.

[@Willy-nu3oc]

this was made during the silent era

[@liquid3600]

How else but by the grace of the internet would I be able to watch this 110 year old masterpiece in my underpants???

[@HackaseSky]

got here from Hugo :D

[@abbeyBominable123]

same here

[@HanunahAyesha]

me too

[@chrismoreno142846]

Me to

[@chrismoreno142846]

its a book check it out its really good

[@simontheewok]

That too was a great movie. And I've always had an odd likeness for this Trip to the Moon movie since I was a kid.

[@mizzshelyn]

For someone born in 1996 to comment as such, you definitely have a bright future ahead of you.

[@SwAxiJoHn]

HOLY SHIT BEST ACTION MOVIE EVER. Best CGI better than any other move!

[@quatlego]

beats gravity

[@Pizza_Rat]

quatlego Beats interstellar

[@serguzestable]

When do you think computer was invented lol

[@SwAxiJoHn]

Mustafa Kesim I don't know because there is people that are years a head of us right now with more advance technology than a computer

[@serguzestable]

***** CGI stands for Computer Generated Imagery so i was pointing out the fact that there was no computer back then, therefore there was no CGI

[@juliedawson7755]

Oh my gosh, this is amazing to see how far we have come with our movies now! WOW! 10 minutes long the would be like 5 hours now. Then movies were only like 1 minute long.

[@thecakeisalie7070]

That's the secret plans to the Death Star on that chalk board!

[@leocdc7]

Thanks Hugo for remember me the magic of movies. Thanks Melies for follow your dreams, and let us have our own.

[@olgaidzhilova42]

I love this music so much. The movie is really well done and to me is like a fantastic dream. Some people here, in the comments, think that their understanding of the Universe is much more thruthful than the one shown in this movie. Well, I feel sorry for them. That's kind of limited thinking. As if I was proud of being able to count "2*2" (having no idea of differential equations and other stuff) as someone could only count "1+1".

[@darkeyeFRANKY]

Omg i remember crying when the scenes frm this movie came up on Hugo -- its so beautiful!!!(:

[@clockworkasmr411]

That bearded scientist is such a BAMF. Smashing aliens with an umbrella, throwing their king around like a flimsy ragdoll, dragging a rocket from the moon to earth with his bare hands... Norris, Willis, Statham, Schwarzenegger, Lee, Stallone, Jackson...none of them have shit on him. The original action hero: random bearded old 1902 space scientist.

[@klaravodenkova8971]

George Mélies is king of cinematography. This movie is the first science fiction movie.

[@lpBren]

remember to always take your umbrella with you when going to the moon

[@SuperniusPL]

Great wideo. I posted film on supernius.pl - 1902 years, George Melies sets off the camera in "A Trip to the Moon," and so created the first science fiction film ever! Crazy times!

[@CjBerry]

If you havent seen it..i highly rcommend HUGO directed and co-produced by Martin Scorsese and adapted for the screen by John Logan..a lovely film with Georges Méliès at the core of the plot

[@maramardhiah]

Cj Berry it was also produced by johnny depp who is very much a fond of this petite cinema verite

[@mindfield717]

Georges was the original Industrial Light And Magic. his special effects must have blown peoples minds

[@windowsuserwhats9plusten]

Is that moon from majoras mask?

[@TheManwithafan]

Honestly, how can anyone dislike this video? its part of their history

[@Smorfty]

If NASA really went to the Moon. Where are the Moon-mushrooms?

[@RubyRed2013]

Amazing so cool that they could find the film and put it on youtube!!!!!!

[@locant23]

Just think Everyone who was in or work on the movie is dead.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Thanks, Captain Sunshine.

[@wonkabo]

I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter Yeah, but it was a cute kitty who said it...

[@simontheewok]

I was just thinking the exact same thing. Great "movie" though. For as old as it is it was done well.

[@quatlego]

just think everyone who has commented on this video will die someday

[@locant23]

quatlego I wont, I know that I can live fforever

[@Minecraftineer998]

at last, a magical masterpiece forever restored on youtube

[@albertor9879]

I wonder what people at that time thought about this film

[@pelicanman96]

Alberto Ramirez It seems like they didn't care what they were watching, they just thought it was fun to watch moving pictures.

[@RealLifeFinance]

It was first movie had to be amazing.

[@Raan33]

this was made in 1902! for that year the effects were good, the cameras of the age accelerates the motions and that is why it looks weird, its a silent film than summarises a entire book in ten minutes and finally is based in a book than describes a voyage to the moon.. written in 1863.. that is just wonderful

[@Aiur]

Needs more Smashing Pumpkins

[@nagato188]

HOLY CRAP. I was listening to them before I started watching this, and after, as I read the comment section (Neverlost). Are you a magician?!

[@GarfieldthaGreat672]

TONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

[@ElthrosXL]

This is what I call, original. I wish I could thank George for practically giving birth to narrative film!

[@MrDouche11100]

Anyone else think this is creepy as hell?

[@erikk9448]

1902

[@ximenalafken7305]

No.

[@pindaryahashua]

Very

[@drakeambrose2644]

Well ma grandfather told me that his dad watched this movie once and I got to say its pretty good george melies did wonderful this a great piece of history and its very accurate being from 1902 and all

[@GameDjeenie]

4:30 - 4:46 Majora's Mask

[@aldrighi4]

I have just finished to read Hugo Cabret. I enjoyed the book and now Melies' A trip to the Moon.

[@mariiamaatta4762]

Who came here after watching Hugo?

[@kylecartoons2010]

Me

[@Willy-nu3oc]

ha, expected

[@artschoolkid9299]

Mariia Määttä or after reading the book

[@sophiaviernes2814]

Mariia Määttä well actually reading the book...:/

[@SM-ih6dt]

I was watching porno.. I dont now what happened

[@astephens1963]

I just watched Hugo. I had heard of George Melies. And have seen this many times. But as usual Scorcese made me appreciate something even more. Truely this was a great man. I understand Edison and the Lumiere Brothers put the technology together to make it possible. But this man and Porter made movies people can enjoy possible.

[@JackoReaper]

i was waiting for the smashing pumpkins to start playing.

[@starchores]

CGI and "After Effects" are still pretty new tools in filmmaking. Scissors, glue, stop-motion animation, and miniatures were even used up until the 80's

[@debopopoola2159]

How this didn't win Oscar wearies me

[@skunkjobb]

+Debo Popoola (popson) It could be that the Academy Awards (a.k.a. Oscar) was introduces in 1929 with two years of retroactive awarding. This film is from 1902.

[@naomioni]

I read the book Hugo some years before the movie came out, but I knew nothing about Georges Melies until reading it. It sparked my interest in learning more about him and his films. i am now watching Hugo the movie and again I am looking up this movie. It's really cool to watch it and know that it's all real. The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia had an automaton on display for their machines exhibit. I'd recommend everyone seeing it. How things work and function is so interesting!!

[@notimportant8806]

Question: was the music added to the film later, or was it in originally? Btw: thank you for uploading this. It's amazing to see how far film has come and how it has drastically changed. Many films today have no artistic value.

[@Sava12242]

So thankful for artists such as Melies and Scorsese....keep the film history and its ancestors alive!

[@elijahhh02]

7:44 i laughed my head off LOL

[@detcot]

i saw this clip here and there before,but after HUGO..i know how great george melies was...tq mr melies

[@GaelicCelt1990]

Based on a True Story.

[@harvestercommander3250]

GaelicCelt1990 how is this based on a true story?

[@galactica604]

@@harvestercommander3250 r/wooosh

[@finuriae]

I like the paddle-steamer that tows it in at the end.

[@fokak0]

in 1902 there is oxygen on the moon wooooooooooow

[@masterassassinofdota]

+B. Ibrahim It was 1900!

[@RKStrikerJK5]

+TheReaperOfSouls Even back then scientists were aware of there being no lunar atmosphere.

[@cameronbarnes4196]

+B. Ibrahim That's why this is called a fiction film smh

[@gatheringleaves]

+Cameron Barnes Emphasis on the FICTION part...

[@LFOVCF]

And the daftest thing about it, IS YOUR COMMENT!

[@AllTheGoodNamesAr]

I'm kidding. I hoped the smiley face at the end would have allowed people to deduce that I meant the opposite of all of that. This is really impressive and inspiring. 10/10 would recommend.

[@wonkabo]

I would say the effects are pretty damn good for the 1900s

[@Odynophonia]

I love that they fall off the moon to get back. Brilliant concept.

[@josefzalusky7307]

Still better than Twilight.

[@vjs0902]

I can't even believe this was done in 1902. Amazing.

[@heatheredwards4088]

Hey! I think I know the story! So some guys are dressing up in some weird pajamas and playing instruments, then we see majora's mask moon coming and then a bullet appears in it's eyeball and it pukes on the earth while cast of duck dynasty walks out and we see the most scientifically accurate film ever!

[@conwaykrakenstein1121]

He's so bright and milky white, shining down upon the ground.

[@thahdeepseadivuh7501]

Anyone else get creepy vibes from this?

[@Cinemaserials]

I love how this is what people thought could be on the moon. Before we landed on the moon, and had a definate answer of what was up there the moon seemed a lot better of a place. If you had a talk with someone in 1902 of what was on the moon, you would hear hundred of different, yet wonderful ideas. Now we know its just a rock with creators.

[@2012YoutubeWasBetter]

Holy acid

[@WhaleCrackers97]

Im watching this because i think old films such as this one are cool c:

[@bravomurphy]

Remarkable for it's day. Gentlemen in top hats and ladies in bustles must have been astonished to see these first "movies."

[@Endless0067]

This was really interesting watching it with some modern trance and techno music.

[@driekone]

I know. I always think about that kind of stuff when I watch old films.

[@pippypenguin]

I had read about this movie before Hugo (the movie or the book), because it was an article on the first sci-fi movie. I saw Hugo recently, and it blew my mind when I saw the picture of the bullet in the man on the moon's eye. The fact that Hugo incorporated real events from George Melies's life is amazing. I imagine that many of the other movies of George Melies depicted in the movie actually existed. 200 of the 531 movies made by Melies have been saved, according to Wikipedia.

[@joehoe222]

wow, just wow. Imagine a world 100 years ago when the plane wasn't even there. The world was close to never seen from great height and don't even think about electricity, what was still experimental in that time. Then you can make a fantasy story with some frightening realistic forms going to put in a film. It's just wow. Of course the effects aren't great, but if you look trough it, you see so much brilliance.

[@rileyc515]

I had heard of this before the movie Hugo, but I had never seen it. Thank you for posting it.

[@SoccerPlyr2002]

i love this video its so amazing that this film was made over 100 years ago and that its still around its a miracle!

[@cloudspinner1]

The merit of this film is in it's pioneering use of animation and editing. You can see where theatre is evolving into this new medium.

[@acropol]

Good God, the scene of the moon with the spaceship attached on his eye, scares the hell out of me!

[@greenkitty82]

I've always liked silen films like Charlie Chaplin and the old classics as they really engage me but Hugo was great as it taught me more about George Melies and his work who was brilliantly played by Ben Kingsley. Thanks for uploading!

[@GSXChetwin]

110 year old sci-fi. Awesome.

[@cuppalentilsoop]

'Hugo' brought me here, too. What a beautiful tribute!

[@lonelyplanet_to]

I love how the Pumpkins integrated this into their Tonight Tonight video. Magic :)

[@Lakate91]

One of my favorite movies right here!

[@KittyKatrinaGirl]

Actually visually stunning

[@boodlewoodle]

That shot of the moon with a rocket in it is just wonderful

[@Kathabreua]

"Hugo" brought me here, too. Great, great story about the origin of films. It's good to know more about Méliès.

[@frickiewolf]

The electronica french duo, Air, is releasing a new album called Le Voyage Dans La Lune. It will be released on Feb 7, 2012, and you can preorder it on iTunes.

[@yogisie]

Unlike misterjim100, I have a GREAT appreciation for fine filming! It's amazing that they had no concept of spacesuits or anything. I often wish that space travel was that easy. A wonderful film!

[@htascon]

This is simply awesome!!! Thanks for uploading!!!

[@jor.jasper]

Méliès will forever be, my idol.

[@edbbob]

I was wondering how they would get back, but that thing with the rope, pulling it over the edge, and using Earths gravity... Stunning :)

[@TheSamukaCan]

Man... What a movie!!

[@darkoceanswecry666]

That was simply brilliant! But of course, I wouldn't be here either if wasn't for the movie "Hugo"