Le voyage dans la Lune, Méliès, 1902

[ElleaimeBashung]

J'ai visionné récemment le très beau film : Méliès le cinémagicien de Jacques Mény À vois absolument pour en connaître davantage sur ce précurseur du cinéma. Tellement intéressant son histoire et son travail.

[DELAPORTEYVESDENIS]

Poète bonimente la Réalité!

[yeahyoung]

Thumb up if the movie Hugo brought you here.

[Jillian1950]

dont you think that the woman is really annoying?:D

[bkaro]

La voix off, c'est ce qu'on appelle un bonimenteur, il servait, à l'époque, à narrer l'histoire comme nous avons toujours des narrateurs dans nos films contemporains.

[krzoh]

I just hate this lazy version with the reader, seriously, we had some regression in inteligence after 1902? so lame

[lataupe62210]

mais la voix off ne sert a rien , le film est muet d'origine , qu'il le reste



[CHAOSin8bits]

THUMBS UP FOR ALL TO SEE! do not watch this version! the most clear and complete cut of the film is here:

watch?v=1eVtv1YyzOU&feature=re­lated

[theGreenChesterfield]

THis is hilarious!!! frail and explosive savages without pants, Jean Jacques Rousseau should have gone along too, he'd have had a blast.

[darthvenom84]

Esto tiene la esencia la pulpa del cine ! ahora todo es sintetico.

[elite32predator]

J'adore les "séléniens" qui partent en fumée avec un coup de parapluie. ^^

[LePatay]

Spent 20 seconds wondering why this trailer of the new Pirates of the Caribbean had no sound.

[TheCHUCKY1992]

its an really old movie but thats why I love it

[july12346]

I appreciate the movie, but that page on the moon just creeps me out.

[valentin8594]

serieusement quand on voit ca on se dit le progret qu'il y a eu avatar aujourdui est une revolution mais dans 110 ans ce sera exactement comme ca

[mandrinkingwhiskey]

I love the idea of killing the moon people with an umbrella

[ImSmilyN]

This moon scares me

[WipersLegend]

One of the best videos of all time.

One of the worst narrators of all time.

[AnjeCeKimal]

c'est fou quand même ! plus de 100 ans nous séparent de cet époque , du voyage dans la lune à avatar, que de chemin parcourus dans le monde du cinéma des effets spéciaux !

[NegraLi34]

the music is good though

everything else is full of shit.

I am pretty sure that 90% of the people commenting are just trying to look intelligent and show how they "know" about cinema

[mespursongles]

@NegraLi34

Do you realize this was made more than a century ago ? of course the story and the acting are aged and oldfashioned, but that's precisely what is so moving, at least to people interested in things of the past and their influence, how now they have become clichés and somehow contributed to shape our vision of things.

[NegraLi34]

@mespursongles You despise the people of one century ago but guys like Hobbes(1588), Arthur Schopenhauer(1788) and others before were writing books about society significantly better than the people from 2011 who actually still studying them.

That is not an argument this is ignorance and arrogance.

[mespursongles]

@NegraLi34 you're confusing epistemologic value and esthetical feeling. Cinema wasn't considered art then, but entertainment. I'm touched by its naiveness, just as I may be touched by an antique item, e.g. a egyptian playtoy that wasn't supposed to be admired. I may sound cheesy, but time endows things with a deepness they hadn't before: the more distant their original intention is to us, the more strong their poetic obsolescence is. It's like the aesthetic value of, say, outdated machinery.

[mespursongles]

@NegraLi34

You shouldn't compare the work of philosophers, that aims at being intemporal, and what was mainly a distraction, a century ago. I'm not saying they're equivalent of course, but the importance of the former doesn't mean minor forms of creation should be spurned, as though they hadn't a degree of significance. Maybe I'm arrogant, but don't call me an ignorant.

[NegraLi34]

@mespursongles You are supporting that the story being crap and cliché is irrelevant because it was made a CENTURY ago.What obviously is an ignorant statement.

What I am saying is that this is not a movie in essence, just a piece of theater filmed.

That being said, you have the exemples of better pieces from CENTURIES before.This effects are theater effects and there is no inovation here.This is a crap piece of theater this is a fact.

[NegraLi34]

@mespursongles I am comparing philosophers because they were describing society as this thing here try to do emulating an alien society.The difference is that centuries after this philosophers they write this crap and you are praising them.

[NegraLi34]

Its kind of funny to see this people sayng how this is "extraordinaire" just because this is old and 'underground' stuff.

This 'effects' and scenario was already used on theater, nothing new

Story is pretty average(even in this time, there was books about it), like they go to the moon and start beatin the aliens, then they kill their leader and return to earth, 'oooh amazing'.

Why they think aliens would have a leader?you dont even need science to know stuff like that, just look at your society

[felixxxgesnouin]

@NegraLi34 there is something quite extraordinary about this movie. It is one of the first truly narrated movies and one basically creates the structures movies will be based on later. This is one of the first movies creating a language of its own for the cinema and taking its distance from the theatrical narration.

Yeah, the story is average, but the medium was not.

[felixxxgesnouin]

@NegraLi34 Yeah, the effects were used in theatre but this has nothing to do with theatre anymore and when you know that movies at that time were only made to show views from around the world, this is a groundbreaking film. It is the first attempt of using the cinematograph as an art medium.

[gwogatobis]

Would have been better if she would shut up

[jojo45180]

excellent, excellent, ausgezeichnet, excel lent, ekselan, otlichno, excelente.

[tezzvids1]

He was a visionary and did foretell the splashdown after returning from the moon.

[spirmessi]

if you like to see the cinema history watch *BIRTH OF CINEMA* in youtube and enjoy.



[C3P0meetsData]

I feel like this moon landing was staged...just a guess...

[kRiiSsTiNiTa]

Genial!!! Lo améeeee (L)

Y amé más a la música de fondoo *-*

[kRiiSsTiNiTa]

Genial!!! Lo améeeee (L)

[bouard35]

La voix ajoutée gâche tout.

[requin9]

EXTRAORDINAIRE!!!

[KarateDo81]

tare

[rudolfvonlvasquez]

During that time, They don't have any idea that there is no air, gravity and creatures in moon. Nice old school sci-fi film. They used long range cannon for transport, no planes or rocket that time.

[pablobenitez1]

15 pelotudos que no saben nada de cine :-)

[AidyScofield]

what the hell is that idiotic french voiceover supposed to mean?????????? i ruined the entire movie!!!

[ptiiteliiz]

@AidyScofield She is describing the scenes. But I agree with you... It wastes this beautiful film !

[sidou26]

@AidyScofield the french voiceover is by méliès granddaughter . they did this on a dvd to show how it would be shown to the people at this time since it was only silent film. she's not the best at it for sure but we get the general feeling of that time.

I hope that helps, have a good day !

[spirmessi]

if you like to see the history of movies watch *BIRTH OF CINEMA* in youtube and enjoy

[bender121212]

excelente!!!!! y ademas la musica es perfecta

[sacpelicancom]

Where can i find the wonderful soundtrack ?

[salvatore96678]

bellissimo protocinema!

[joemp1]

the music is just incredible!

[CivilServantMan]

Great film!

I remade this movie as a game level for the PS3 game Little Big Planet a year ago. That worked perfectly. Check out my filmed version here on youtube. Search with 'Melies' and ' LBP' and you'll find it.

[sou192]

Check out the Smashing Pumpkins video "Tonight, tonight".

It's almost the same!

Respect to great Méliès that is still an inspiration after 100years

Respect to the Pumpkins for making a new version of Le voyage dans la Lune

and a great song!

[keelasever]

Actually this old movie looks a lot more real than the one Americans made for the Apollo mission in 1969! mmmmm....good.

[iKinetics]

@keelasever so true :))

[johnwaynewasafaggot]

beats 90 minutes with willi's bruce evey time.

[FinnishFuturist]

Little did Méliès know most of this would end up coming true only 67 years later! it's sad he didnt see it happen.

[Kenador]

Simpson654, please remember that were're dealing with cinema, not with a masses' entertainment like Star Wars. Also remember that in 1968, Stanley Kubrick made 2001:A space odyssey, and whereas there was no color picture of the Earth, he had the idea of tainting it in blue. You also say that when Star Wars was released, "it was inconceivable that anyone would actually ever visit the moon", but n 20th July, 1969, a man called Neil Amstrong did. Too bad, man. You're all wrong...

[cheesemasters]

lovely stuff, really lovely.

[LuxClassical]

Tendría muchos defectos, pero el cine de esa época es entrañable...

[Simpson654]

Star Wars, only 76 years earlier. Then it was inconceivable that anyone would actually ever visit the moon. Thankfully Star Wars set in a galaxy far, far away, a long long time ago, so all the "scientific problems" are solved... it's a fantasy extravaganza like this one, nobody would have taken the Jules Verne's idea of launching people in a cannon to the Moon seriously, even in Verne's time. The sudden acceleration will kill any passengers in an instant. Only liquid fueled rockets got us there.

[Gerkinstock]

Buzz Aldrin once met a man who told him we still haven't put man on the moon. That man met Aldrin's fist shortly thereafter.

[otherfool]

Incredible experience, cinematographic wonder of a film. Fantastic effects, it does put movies such as Avatar (average at best) to shame.

[RazzleDazzleLiz]

Does anyone know the title and composer of the piano piece playing in the background?

[GirthyTrees]

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy a poster print of the film? If so where? I just found one on ebay from 1914 which was amazing. Sadly the $500,000 + asking price is a little out of my range.

[ilovepoulet]

Je trouve ça étonnant et réjouissant que des films datant du début du 20e siècle soient visionnables sur YouTube !

[AfroHorseProductions]

And to think this was top technology and now i can do this with a cellphone

[MEKON17]

@AfroHorseProductions i don't see why the thumbs down - this is a great triumph of the science that this film celebrates !

[AfroHorseProductions]

Im just saying how far we have advanced in technology.

[MEKON17]

@AfroHorseProductions yeah ! its great

[LogInForPaper]

O mon dieu! c'est terrible!

[Phranky]

A snobbish elitist friend of mine was complaining that Avatar is reducing cinema to a special effects extravaganza but then I suggested he checked out this 1902 film about scientists who literally fire themselves into the eye of the moon where they encounter an underground kingdom of aliens.

[MEKON17]

@Phranky yeah ! and talk about a shoddy story in this one - hello hg wells (not to mention the shoddy shoddy science)

[clayzee001]

best silent film ive seen :)

[lordtever]

you know? I had a teacher of a subject called cinematography, and he says that it is not a movie, it is movement images... however it is amazing... the whole concept

[TheRussellicious]

you're pathetic...you sounds like 9 year old retard...go get a life...

[numba1fattboy2k]

I've learned that in order to win a fight in one hit, I must always carry an umbrella with me. Apparently my enemy will explode into dust.

[am9224]

Queen - Heaven for Everyone

[draven26]

Some of you say the fx were good for the time, the fact that these remain iconic images shows they have stood the test of time, ask yourself how many modern movies will be remembered in 107 years time

[Phranky]

This will be remembered because it's one of the first of it's kind (if not *the* first heavy sfx laden movie).

[draven26]

It's in remarkably good condition given it's age.A classic that would influence everything that came in it's wake

[Onebloodygrenade]

I love this...make a fantastic voyage all the way to the moon, get out of your ship and....have a nap!

[POKOHelba]

i still love that image of the moon.

[icygumball3000]

honestly this movie is one of the most beautiful videos i've ever seen

[keelasever]

neither should you.

i guess this doesnt lead to anywhere.

you believe i dont. thats all.

[keelasever]

at that time they believe that the moon wade of cheese.only 50 years later we all new it was made of chocolate.

Science.

[pappycool]

Get serious and tell me about your previous statement...

[keelasever]

based the opinions of expert in photography.

we give shape to our opinions based on what we read or watch..

I watched many videos with enough evidence to me that was a fake.

[pappycool]

Are you the expert?

You should not believe anything what others feed you.

[kerstmanneke82]

@keelasever Liar. Wallace and Gromit have proven it in the eighties: it IS cheese.

[SRSAParadise]

HOLLYFUCKINGSHIT IT'S 1902!!!

[keelasever]

this movie looks more real than the one that Nasa made in 1969.

[pappycool]

Do you guys have any physical evidence that what you say is the truth or you just believe that crap?

[keelasever]

you mean the Nasa and Apolo 11 bullshit?

of course never happend and thats my comment all about.

[pappycool]

How can you prove that without any reasonable doubt?

[Onebloodygrenade]

dumbass

[XmegaPresident]

You sound less intelligent now because you typed a message!!

[mixtogray]

Anyone know if there is a torrent or something of the sound from this? The music is awesome.

[andymiller51]

This is an example of the first use of narrative editing. Without this, there would be no narrative cinema. (Which is what we know cinema to be nowadays).

[museumoftechno]

I think someone else would've worked it out eventually. Human beings do like a good narrative.

[PaigeEvonne]

LoL what a stupid debate (comments below) but aside from that....... i love this... almost creepy, i get a strange sort of feeling watching things from so long ago. its like being invited for a moment to a point in time, that you'll never have a chance to see otherwise. i agree with Moses(lol) ...the magic of cinema.

[irkaaan]

and; this looks like fastforward because captured frame rate was lower. (16frames in a second today we use 25)

[wyglop]

24 fps, y'all.

[irkaaan]

your right. 24 in cinema 25 in PAL mate.

[Destino68]

I love how the shuttle falls off the moon and lands back onto Earth! And how the Moonmen explode when hit by an umbrella!

[tellyouwhatG]

what ca srai fou si yavais vraiment des planetes de meme

[dolbyboags]

Fuck Thomas Edison.

[barangulmez]

great effects is fuck turkish cinema

[austinrules24]

I really love this. The special effects of the era are amazing to watch -- and they were all done with the camera alone. And while it's a fantasy, it's interesting to see how truly little was known about the moon at the time -- how they thought there could be mushrooms and such on it.

[irkaaan]

mushrooms are quite intresting. and the aliens on this movie are the first aliens in the cinema screen. their leader's look was fantastic though.

[spirmessi]

if you like old movies watch the *BIRTH OF CINEMA* in youtube and enjoy.

[bournesproductions]

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK­KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK­KKKKKKKKKKKKKK

totalmente inspirador kara!!!!!!!

[xpantx]

YEAH!

[loreeth]

Great effects for 107 years ago!!!! WOW!!!!!

[maikou666]

fucking shit movie

[Moseslawgiver]

Maikou, how is it "fucking shit"?

Have some respect, moron. Without this, there's no Star Wars...

[maikou666]

you really like this movie?!?!?! maybe 100years ago this was good

[Moseslawgiver]

I do, because it is a classic.

Without this, there is none of your modern jargon.

[maikou666]

"classic" dont mean that this movie is good. I know that u cant watch 30min this shit. I know that this is shit movie and everybody knows that too. so go fuck your classic movies

[TheRussellicious]

there is no even 30 min you retard, there only 8:24

[TheRussellicious]

go get a life retard

[maikou666]

get a life fucker if u like this. EMO COCK SUCKER

[TheRussellicious]

grow up, fucking computer nerd

[TheRussellicious]

actually all love it, you fucking 9 year old retarrd.now go get a life and go ahead, or i'm will fucking smash your fucking face!!!

[maikou666]

haha I will beat you without hands fool. I fucking kick your head off fucker

[TheRussellicious]

hjajhahjahj fucking idiot now go beat me, you just a internet nerd.you fucking weak retard.

[maikou666]

hahaha, Im better fighter than u motherfucker. you are the real nerd fucking idiot. stfu and watch this "good" movie.

[SRSAParadise]

like your grand grandma

[neoroxx]

lol funny hahahaha....

[guitars2112]

wow, what music is this?

[eternamentetu324]

le videe o le pelicule esta bacanè...

que chimbè!!!

elegantès les efectees especialès...

saludees desde colombiè...

[panicotion]

trop bien

[Mocalp]

I just love it! It is amazing to see the first special effects!

[SPALDINGiViD]

AMAZING! Great movie! Pure classic!

[DrGolfJam]

Its just like Wallace and Gromit... or maybe not... forget I said anything! LOL

"GROMIT, WE FORGOT THE CRAKERS!"

[linkman69]

the reason it seems fast is because they used to use cameras which had to be wound. It was extremely difficult to wind at a steady rate, so often you would have sped up film

[Lordifani]

Pretty damn impressive for a film done in 1902. A true classic.

[desmadrator]

Is this the Full Movie?

[phattown213]

why is everything in fast forward mode? is there a reason they made their movies like that?

[cancionjavier]

Excelente.

[donisalexandru]

The film is awsome. I think it can stand against star trek.

[pocketvision24]

ohhh i wish i understood french better! maybe next year...

[novice8814]

There's a YouTube video of this actual gun being fired. it's called "WW2: German Dora gun, the biggest gun ever, firing",

[mmmtsp]

i once punched a guy so hard

he vanished into a puff of smoke

weird but true, lol

[winstoncaulfieldbr]

I keep imagining people at the time watching the first movie ever made. It must have been amazing for them.

I recommed you guys watching the video Tonight Tonight of the band Smashing Pumpkins. It was based on this movie.

[MAJORAPIX]

Jajaja muy buena. Como se mueren los elenitas.

[Crawfo123]

WEIRD!!

[torcolito]

Me gusta la parte cuando se tapan en la luna. Me recuerda a mis tíos en su pueblo, cuando tomaban el camión a las cinco de la mañana.

[klausbarbie123]

C'est bon!

[washobubulina]

en el minuto 4:25....

[washobubulina]

nadie se ha dado cuenta que hay un pedazo de música en esta peli muy parecida a parte del soundtrack de E.T?

[bluezanate]

Excelente!!

[snasty99]

i have to watch this for a french assignment.... :( lol

[CelticFiddleFreak]

I have to watch this for a film studies and production class. :)

[daenceca89]

me too

[Cr4zy3y3dk1lla]

I watch for fun

[LedZeppelin644]

I can only assume what's going on but I get the general idea

[LightofBeauty]

moi aussi, le film c'est amusant non? :)

[snasty99]

oui!

[freeforall32]

le tres tres dork

[03dexter033]

una obra d art

[jehouse]

Est-ce qu'on peut trouver le texte ecrit quelque part?

[Fishy170288]

woops... *like i was ten* lol

[Fishy170288]

I felt like i ten again when i saw this, it a great bit of film.

[BethlehemFilms17]

A pity the man who made this only saw a tiny fraction of the profits this made. And apparently, someone who stole it tried to sell a pirated copy to him.

[retrohippie]

Even though they made the movie off an enormous budget, it's amazing the special effects they had in this movie for that time!

[majorminor81]

omolette de fromage

[nz564]

it fact over 300 year ago people think moon same as earth

[KidWiruz]

le AWESOME!

[paranoic]

Belissimo.

[ozmamichael]

funxstarter that is melies grandaughter

[Nouveau79]

Tous les films realisees par Georges Méliès sont des souvenirs d'une ere carascterisee par candeur et authenticité,une epoque durant laquelle les artistes avaient encore la puissance de creer essentiellement.Cette et une raison additionelle pour laquelle ces oeuvres sont rendues classiques.

[G01d3nsun]

Ce film est fantastique! J'ai adoré le regarder, et j'ai vu environ 40 fois! N'est jamais vieux. Mon arrière-grand-père a été un des premiers à voir ce film, et il a aimé celui-ci! Je peux honnêtement dire que je n'ai jamais assez de ce fabuloud film de Méliès!

[gpower07]

tonight tonight... smashing pumpkins

[mopresto15o]

bon oui lol im not french but i heard of this from hugo cabret and it was a good book. and i knew the movie a trip to the moon was real

[luca2804]

bellissimo!

[LeandroR99]

Just one word: AMAZING!

[uzkapp]

labill, heeeeeeeeeeeeee

[openyourmind1]

which is the soundtrack?Thanks

Ce film est vraiment génial !! Un vrai chef d'oeuvre, même à notre époque! j'sais pas pour vous, mais ça me fait penser à un Final Fantasy ( l