| Excursion dans la lune | |
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| Directed by | Segundo de Chomón |
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| Produced by | Ferdinand Zecca |
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Running time | 180 meters1 |
| Country | France |
| Language | Silent |
Excursion to the Moon (French: Excursion dans la lune) is a 1908 French silent trick film directed by Segundo de Chomón. The production was supervised by Ferdinand Zecca, designed by V. Lorant-Heilbronn, and released by Pathé Frères.1 The film is an unauthorized remake, and an almost shot-by-shot copy, of Georges Méliès's 1902 film A Trip to the Moon.2
The film follows Méliès's scenario closely and includes many of its features, with some variations: for example, the Selenites are not vulnerable to umbrellas, but rather appear and disappear at will; the capsule lands inside the Man in the Moon's open mouth rather than hitting its eye; and the Selenite who returns to Earth is a "dancing moon-maiden" who is betrothed at the end of the film to one of the astronomers.2 This film has occasionally been misidentified as a work by Méliès.3
Of the film's 180 meters, 72 were colorized1 using a Pathé stencil process.2
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References
- Centre d'études foréziennes (2000), Catalogue des films projetés à Saint-Étienne avant la première guerre mondiale, Université de Saint-Etienne, p. 103, ISBN 2862721824
- Solomon, Matthew (2011), "Introduction", in Solomon, Matthew (ed.), Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon, Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 12–13, ISBN 9781438435817
- Méliès, Georges (2010), Georges Méliès: Encore (DVD; short film collection), Los Angeles: Flicker Alley, ISBN 978-1893967564