"Le Voyage dans la Lune" (1902)

so imaginative for the time!

this is the russian space program in the 50s

I saw this today in my silent film class and I simply loved it. It's amazing how a movie that was made over A HUNDRED years old, can still remain so fun and captivating.

Nobody invented cinematography.

Dickson, Eastman, Edison (US); Muybridge, Friese-Greene (UK); Louis Le Prince (France) and many other pioneering individuals made valuable contributions to the evolution of cinematography as we know it.

OMFG, the first projection was in France by Auguste and Louis Lumière. It was the really begining of the cinema, so it's a French invention.

* Not cinema : Cinéma !

Arguable. Emile Reynaud projected his Theatre Optique to a paying audience three years before the Lumiere Brothers did theirs. However, Reynaud's projection was not a film, but hand painted glass plates. Woodville Latham invented the Latham Loop, which did pioneer motion picture transit and his exhibition preceeded the Lumiere Brothers by about eight months.

Make your own mind up.

You're way off

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

Fanciful, imaginative, ground-breaking, a very artistic perception and realization. Cinema Fantastique!

I like Bender's version of the rocket in the moon's eye ball bit better.