A Trip to the Moon (1902)
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A club of top-hatted astronomers fires itself to the Moon in a giant bullet, pokes the eye of the man in the Moon, tangles with a tribe of exploding lunar natives, and tumbles back to Earth as heroes. Méliès packs stage magic, hand-tinted spectacle and deadpan comedy into cinema's first science-fiction fantasy.
The film that taught movies to dream: a magician’s toy box aimed at the sky, still quoted every time a rocket leaves the frame.
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