Voyage Dan La Lune

[Edvarius]

[url]https://sfdebris.com/videos/films/voyagedanslalune.php[/url]

Man, I remember seeing this old thing in college. Kinda surprised to see it here, but eh, not like it doesn't count. And public works reviews might be a decent way of getting around copyright bots (so how many people do you think are gonna try and flag this anyway?).

As for the film itself, it's not a bad little story. But I gotta question, are the moon people just that fragile, or is the old kook really that strong? I mean, if he's strong enough to make people explode from a single hit somebody outta offer him a position with the Avengers. Well OK, given the time period more like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but whatever.

[Thebestoftherest]

Well most of the ones he kill didn't look like they were warriors and the local would be weaker due to lower gravity.

[Mecha82]

Well that was interesting. That said I found whole talk about rivalry between Melies and Edison more interesting than movie itself.

[Maximara]

A dramatization of this film' creation, intermingled with Apollo 17's mission, appears in the "Le Voyage Dans La Lune" episode of From the Earth to the Moon ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(miniseries)[/url])

The funny thing is sound pictures were being made and shown, via the kinetoscope, by this time with Le Duel d'Hamlet starring Sarah Bernhardt being shown at the Paris Exposition in 1900.

The problem with the kinetoscope required constantly fiddling as the mechanical connection between film and record cylinder would tend to go out of sync. Also, because they were so fragile, cylinders tended to get broken while the film remained intact as was the fate of Le Duel d'Hamlet but he cylinders from Cyrano de Bergerac (1900) and Little Titch y sus Big Boots (1900) have survived. These along with the 1912 Edison's Kinetophone demonstration film allows one to see examples of the technology. So anytime somebody says sound pictures didn't exist before 1927 you can point to these as to why that is wrong.

[Riedquat]

The "hit them and they explode" effect was done very well, plenty of much more modern examples done worse. It's easy to take it forgranted now that we see it and don't even think about it.

[drewder]

See everyone we never landed on the moon this footage of the moon is not very convincing.

[TGLS]

Chuck, please don't review anymore French movies, you're bastardizing the names.

[Nightbeat74]

as someone who is kinda in the goth subculture when i hear the name voltaire i think of aurelio voltaire! so that made my viewing interesting.

[G-Man]

The idea that Earth people are stronger than Moon people due to gravity was actually part of the H.G. Wells' "The First Men in the Moon," upon which the on-the-Moon portion of this story was based.

[Nealithi]

Just a thought, but was it widely known that the moon had no atmosphere at the time? I ask because can we deride a piece of fiction for being wrong now, when it was considered plausible in its own time?

One example was an older series I liked to read. Tom Corbett Space Cadet. They had Venus as a swampy land full of dinosaurs. Which was an idea popularized by science and years later a special mention of Carl Sagan. The Observation: Can't see anything. Conclusion: Dinosaurs, segment.