Voyage a travers l'impossible

[Zoetiane]

I just finished Reading the invention of Hugo Cabret and i am Fascinated by the automaton and Georges Melies :) <3 i love that book so mysterious :D

[83ishgirl]

Oh man the sun ate the train... Ahhhhhhhhh!!! Love these films sooooooo much! Thank you for sharing. Means the world.

[TheGnegno]

Wrong ^^ "Le voyage dans la lune" is the film inspired Tonight Tonight's video xD

[ThrilloVanHouten]

Is this a colorized version from the early 1900s, or something more modern?

[Tokiopopski]

@ThrilloVanHouten Each frame was individually hand painted back in 1094, this is how people over 100 years ago would have seen it

[tomservo3]

The sun was angry. The sun then ate the train and the train fell. This is what I call comedy.

[SmegmoliO]

WHAT A TRIP!  :D

[youngromh4x0r]

wtf flying train lol i want some of that RAGE TRAIN FTW

[rlbluver]

by the way jellyboy123 a trip to the moon is also called le voyage dans la lune

[rlbluver]

jellyboy123 this movie is from 1904 you must be meaning a trip to the moon from 1902 you might find a complete film verison on youtube but its projected very fast

[jellyboy123]

This version is the lost version of the film there should be a ending with this version that was cut from the original from 1902 , However, a complete cut of the film was discovered in a French barn in 2002.

[jellyboy123]

the film featured a final scene depicting a celebratory parade in honor of the travelers' return. Until recently, this scene was considered lost, and did not appear on any commercially available editions. However, a complete cut of the film was discovered in a French barn in 2002. Not only is it the most complete cut of the movie, but it is also entirely hand-colored. It was restored and premiered in 2003 at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.

[theDisko]

That's very interesting! I digitised this from a VHS i found in 2001. :)

[vigo461]

Incredible! Colour?

[Voxelux]

Quite a few of these very early films were painstakingly coloured by hand, frame by frame contemporaneously, to add novelty to the film.

[Voxelux]

Quite a few of these early films were painstakingly hand coloured, frame by frame contemporaneously, to add novelty to the film.

[AquariaSpirit]

Why did they fly into the sun's mouth?

[niels241]

it is the voyage through the inpossible...

[robiacons]

esistono oggi questi artisti..? non credo propio. che dire...? la genialita!!!!! senza limiti alla creativita.. sono italiano.. ed apprezzo da sempre questo pioniere della scatola magica.. con i suoi trucchi.... roberto

[ozmamichael]

this is not the full verison

[KissMyArs1]

Indeed... :(

[Argentina10Maradona]

is this the full film? because i thought that it had a run time of 20-25 mins.

[InfamousMonsters]

simply amazing. rare hand-colored film?

[KissMyArs1]

Exactly!

[Keeper1st]

Indeed, it was common in those days for prints to be hand-colored frame by frame (and even more common for different scenes to be dyed different colors, to evoke particular emotions). This made the whole argument over Turner colorizations of black & white films in the 1980s/1990s somewhat ironic. People had been colorizing films since the beginning of film!

[VariedInterest]

Not ironic, the real objection concerns the preservation of the original creative vision and historical integrity.

[rexnone]

I absolutely love this. It's like a sequel to "a trip to the moon" Wonderful.

[camasquil]

the end it's like the yellow submarine

[mupty]

whoa..trippy!

[Oppledeldoc]

I never even knew about it till now, and it surpasses even Trip To The Moon (including the coloring - not that Trip To The Moon wasn't fine without color, but this is really great). Thank you for posting it.

[rexnone]

The man was simply a genious.

[mikedfc]

Widely regarded as the very first example of cinema for the masses - thanks for posting - magical!

[badfender223]

Was this the Melies film that was colorized by hand?

[plsawek]

does anybody know what video clip was inspired by this movie?

[theDisko]

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight

[flamytheguy]

no tonight tonight was inspired by vayge dans la lune. same director george melies.

[danielchance]

both A Trip to the Moon, and this inspired it. Remember, they were not shot up to the moon in a cannon in the video, but flew up there in a zeppelin.

[danielchance]

nvm, I hadn't been watching this movie as I posted the one before this...

[Rg2732]

@theDisko Nope- as others have said that was inspired by 1902's Le voyage dans la lune

[bellber]

george melies was amazing...he practically created cinema! he was the first guy to realize that film could be used for more than just fact, but now for entertainment!

[tuturura]

not cinema (muybridge-marey-lumiere brothers) but definitely animation...and sci-fi by the way....

;P

[alexzabzab]

imagine what would happen if this guy had a pc in that Era!!

[4thgradeconfessions]

i dig the music!!

[ultramagnavox]

I dont hate it, its very dream-like but I suspect this would be 100x more interesting if one is under some sort chemically induced state.