#George Melies

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cinema firsts: a trip to the moon (1902) directed by george méliès

the first science fiction movie & was fourteen minutes long

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a trip to the moon (1902)

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A Trip to the Moon – Moomin Expedition

Once again, this was for a discord server event poster. The reference of this artwork is obvious (I suppose XD), which is the famous scene from A Trip to the Moon, a George Méliès film!

⬆️the original scene, which was a bit terrifying.

Poster with promo text included ⬇️ (definitely not promoting cuz the event has been ended already hehe)

Drawing the poster was fun except crosshatching (I almost lost sanity on it 😂)

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Oh ye of infinite wisdom. Can you tell a poor, unenlightened soul what the first horror movie ever made was?

The oldest known horror film, now lost media, is an 1896 short by Eugénie Génin titled "The True House of the Devil."

With the birth of cinema came Georges Méliès, one of its first grand masters. Making dozens if not hundreds of science fiction and fantasy movies with his wife (Génin) he also made the first dark fantasy film, "The Devil's House," in 1896. However, this film is not what he and Génin originally conceived. She had originally written a far scarier movie, but Méliès considered it far too disturbing to make. He instead made his own version, similar to his more carnival exhibition style shorts of the time.

But Génin was happy with her original story, and borrowed his camera each night to film her own version. What she made is a bit of a mystery. Her scripts were burned in the Great Paris Flambé Accident of 1901, and the original film was screened only once and was then immediately destroyed due to the audience's reaction.

Film historian Flynn Asterion explains, "Génin's film, according to the only survivor who saw it, depicted a house with a pit that lead to hell, or perhaps another dimension, where a demonic guide showed the true nature of God and the Devil and the universe in such specificity and accuracy that the audience went insane."

Most of the audience died instantly, became demented and ate their own eyeballs, or ran screaming into the sewer and never returned. The only remaining viewer, Jean-Regarde Quinapas Mangéses Propresyeux, is said to have survived by running naked from the screening, shouting about the end of existence, and filling his socks with horse manure. Arrested soon after for not using the proper Chaussettes d'Excréments for the act, he slowly declined in prison and was never heard from again.

When Méliès learned of the disaster, he shut down all attempts at reproduction or preservation of Génin's film, and the film was lost.

Though this first horror movie was indeed so disturbing that it drove the audience mad, no movies in the 130 years since have matched its terrifying nature. There is good news however, as several viewers of Zack Snyder's upcoming "Rebel Moon" have had similar reactions, with some critics chewing off their own feet to escape the screening, despite their feet not having been restrained. Is a new master of disturbing cinema on the horizon? Only time will tell.

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Stills from the silent short film Le Voyage Dans la Lune "A Trip to the Moon" (1902).

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horror movie history: george méliès (1861-1938)

the man, the myth, the legend of horror movies is george méliès, who created the first horror movie "the house of the devil." originally an illusionist, his background helped him tweak and manipulate images on film. he created special effects on screen, such as spirits, dancing skeletons, giant creatures, and sudden appearances and disappearances. a trick that this early director used was what spirit photographers would use in the 1860s, which was the practice of using double exposures or superimpositions to depict ghosts within a frame of film. after dominating the very early film industry, he constructed a glass studio in paris, which is where he invented many cameras modifications and devices to help him bring his visions to screen. he is believed to be responsible for many special effects firsts: split screen, double exposure, overlapping dissolves, fades in and out, and stop motion photography.

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A little George Méliès, a little John Patrick Shanley, a little Kid Cudi ✨🌝✨

Saturday Night Live with Timothée Chalamet and boygenius 11.11.23

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In the style of George Méliès, sometimes called 'Victorian Celestial,' an image of muscular Victorian men standing next to each other gazing at the moon.

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Im watching blood on melies moon which i just got on bluray and in the introduction the director and writer Luigi Cozzi talks about some of the making of the movie.

One thing stood out to me was that he wanted to use film sequences from melies' films but couldnt because of rights surrounding like the restored versions of the films being still under partial copyright in europe at the time.

And he says he regrets not paying to use it but he had virtually no budget for the movie.

Copyright really can be a roadblock for indipendant creators

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Capturing Dreams

If the studios persist with their endeavors to disregard humans in favor of machines and the pursuit of profit for the few and paucity for the rest, get used to *The Sound Of Silence, for the synergy will be lost and we'll be alone...with our machines.

An earlier post of mine talked about the lovely film, Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese and its relevance in relation to the ongoing WGA & SAG-AFTRA strikes and continuing in that vein, here's an additional thought or two:

A scene from the film has Isabelle, (pictured above-played by the actress Chloe Grace Moretz) reading to lead Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) an excerpt from a book, The Invention of Dreams.

"The filmmaker Georges Méliès was one of the first to realize that - films had the power - to capture dreams."

While Georges Méliès was a real person; if I recall correctly, the book title was created by author, Brian Selznick, who wrote the original novel from which the movie screenplay was adapted. Apparently there is now a group for writers that takes its name from that fictitious book included in both the novel and the film.

The word synergy is likely overused as a buzzword these days, but it seems apt here. Selznick's writing, Scorcese's direction, actors acting, filmgoers, the writing group mentioned above, and it expands ever outward. The numbers of people involved in this creative output are tied together in so many ways and so many dreams, some of which are yet to be realized. Film technology has changed since the 1930s setting of the story, without a doubt-- but machines cannot be allowed to replace the dreamers, the storytellers, the actors, the humans who labor to capture these dreams.

*The Sound Of Silence (1964, written by Paul Simon; performed by Simon & Garfunkel; Columbia).

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I had a dream last night in which they rebooted Peppa Pig but everyone looked like this.

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'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' (Voyage to the Moon) 1902.