I had a great great aunt who was born in the 1860s. She lived to be 104 and literally saw man go from covered wagons to men walking on the moon in her lifetime. Just incredible.
Just imagine how these actors would feel, knowing that more than a century later; we're able to watch their performances in the palms of our hands, without a projector.
this movie is actually it's own sequel. the novel it is based upon ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon ) ended on a massive, moon sized cliffhanger. the second book had them coming back, iirc.
Random knowledge: In this era, sound couldn’t be recorded, which made audiences bored and find it hard to understand the story. So theatres hired orchestras to play live while the movie was rolling. For example, in Charlie Chaplin’s performances, musicians would be looking at the screen while playing live depending on what was happening at the time. This is why I’m so fascinated by musical theory; the fact that without any sound, a story can be hard to understand however, once music is played alongside it, it creates a certain atmosphere. Another example of this is leitmotifs for characters. A character could be out of the scene but as soon as you hear their leitmotif (their theme tune) the audience immediately recognises that character. It’s so interesting.
Leitmotiv is a very general description of something that changed a lot throughout the history of music. I don't know much about movies but the idea of having a topic (a specific recognizable melody) in a piece of music is as old as the concept of notating music. These sort of movies with their music are very expressive and nothing like what traditional harmony theory ever offered before. It's as you described "play what you see". Which makes this very unique and also somewhat unenjoyable if listened to by itself. And it's also incredibly difficult to create music like this on the fly. You'd have to really know your instrument
@@Homanjer I agree with you. This person also referenced the most basic, universally understandable comedy that needs nothing but body langugage for it's enjoyment, without any need of music.
I'm pretty sure music is a type of language since it has all the fundamental characteristics that language has. So yes, you can substitute spoken language with music.
What made this movie groundbreaking at the time was the "special effects" as we would call them today. The way the sets move, the design for said sets, even the wardrobe and makeup of the actors, at the time it blew people's minds. George Melies was a stage magician before he got involved in filmmaking, and while some of his earlier movies used new techniques he came up with to give greater illusions, it was "Le Voyage dans la Lune" the one that pushed the envelope like never before. In a way George Melies was the father of special effects.
It is amazing how fluent it looks when the landers hit the moon beings and they disappear into smoke clouds, you can barely see the cut only if you are willing to pay attention.
Every person in this movie is long dead now, but some will still have been alive in 1969 to watch the moon landings for real, would love to have their thoughts.
I did some research and one of them did actually make it. Henri Delannoy, played the captain. Lived to 103. Died in 1976. Glad to know he got to see it.
@@JWW-bj1sp living from 1873 to 1976, must be so WTF, so much change in this short period, went from a world without car plane helicopter, tv, computer, telephone, satellites, fridge, penicillin, few house with electricity to a world with all of THIS omfg
Who knew in 1902, whether the Moon may have had oxygen somewhere on its surface! p.s. Even though our astronauts in 1969, knew that there was no one on the Moon, I heard that Neil Armstrong secretly carried a .45 pistol in his spacesuit, just in case!
My favorite part was when they were being loaded into the space ship. It's like, "Alright boys, everyone got your space gear? Tophats---check. Pocket watches---check. Umbrellas in case it rains in space---check."
@@LittleB2007 You mean the umbrellas are parachutes, so they could jump of the moon and come to Earth and have a soft landing? - That's a really good idea.
For those who watched this back in 1902, it felt incredibly real to them since a stage performance could never duplicate the special effects (especially all that superimposed stuff and the moon men who vanish into thin air upon being struck by the umbrella), editing, etc.
technically, a stage performance would have been possible, but who has the budget to do this 5 times a week just for a few hundred people... if it was a one time thing, it wouldve been possible, but yeah, as a regular show it wouldve been too much effort
In a way, the internet allows you to time travel. That is, as far as technology can go. (Tech that's able to capture some kind of footage) Obviously you can't physically time travel though, sadly. Or time travel before the invention of photography. Unless you count art as a means to look back into the past. But pictures and film/video is obviously better than art if you want to look into the past.
I can't get over how the women were dressed in this film. In 1902, that must have been scandalous. A lot of silent films are a peek into the reality of life in that time, this is a peek into the imagination of that time.
8:12 I love this little moment the film has as we and the characters see the far away Earth in the distance. Even so long ago, they've been always dreaming of this sight. Just imagine how they would feel to know that humans actually got to see it.
The effects do give it an atmosphere. They give it a fantastical feeling, similar to the Little Nemo comics if that makes any scene. Edit they give it a timeless feeling.
Actor, Henri Delannoy (captain of the rocket) was still alive , he was 96 at the time of moon landing in 1969, so imagine his reaction to Apollo 11 landing
- just imagine how these actors would feel, knowing that more than a century later, we're able to watch their performances in the palms of our hands, without a projector.
I really cannot imagine how difficult making a film was. The scenes, the music, the actors and actresses... Everything is so funny for a 21th century's person to watch because so collow, but the fact it is one of the masterpiece which had brought the cinema industry perfectly up to the present, is just making me feel like the people whose only fictional world was about books and theatres until meeting with a screen so close to reality. That was an amazing development about 120 years ago, it just has a really special atmosphere. Feels so weird, *if these kind of films weren't made, we probably wouldn't have TH-cam to watch it on.*
The Turn of the Century prior to the Turn of the Century and a Millennium. Just look at that. It's even weird for a 1990s kid to watch because we saw the transition into TH-cam from things like Home Videos on VHS and DVD..and now not even 30 yearrs later everything can be filmed and edited on the same thing it's viewed with it's absolutely bananasto think about. But imagine them with " Contactless Pizza Delivery." Or a Roomba?
My great grandmother would be graduating high school as this movie was filmed. I remember chatting with her a few times before she passed away in '78, when I was 8. Now her great-great grandkid (my daughter) is 13. Trippy.
Wonderful movie. 3 things stand out. 1) They showed Earth-rise on the Moon. 2) On their return, the spaceship/capsule splashed in the ocean and was retrieved. 3) The 'Astronauts' were given a public reception for their achievement. We saw all these 3 play out for real during the Apollo missions that happened some 65-70 years later from when this was filmed. Such imagination! 😃
And the fact that even before the airplane was invented, they imagined that to reach the moon you had to use a "big bullet", which is indeed similiar to a rocket.
I remember seeing a snapshot of this film in a magazine when i was little, after all these years finally found it, what a monument for the film industry
i cried my eyes out.... the mere existence of this masterpiece and the fact that i`m watching this on my laptop in 2020 is too much to handle....... god bless georges mellies
I remember watching Hugo as a child just falling in love with the film. I had no idea at the time that this was actually based off history but I'd say this movie here was in a way the one that got me into movies.
The dream scene where Hugo pulls apart his jacket to reveal a clockwork torso gave me nightmares and thinking about it still spooks me a bit to this day.
Amazingly, this was a year *before* the first airplane and yet *only 67 years* before men actually landed on the moon and safely returned. Think how much technology had to develop in that short time!
@@WilliamPotts3 Bah, that's humbug. You're just not aware of the massive strides we took when it comes to the miniturization of transistors and computer technology. Chosen ignorance, nothing more.
the last veteran of the war of 1812 died in 1905, there was at least that one person who fought in the war of 1812 still alive when this was made, maybe one or two others
It's very clever : the space module is a bullet, the moon getting it in the eye ! The costumes are impressive ! Such a treat ! Thank you for sharing this 120 years old movie !
This soundtrack is so great! I think a lot of musical scores people have written for this film are distracting and bombastic. The simple, bouncy brass quintet is just the thing for this old-fashioned film!
During the scene where they're building the rocket, the three blacksmiths on the left side of the screen are actually a direct video reference to the "Three Blacksmiths Scene" filmed by the Edison Kinetoscope in 1893. It is, quite possibly, one of the first known movie references in film history.
I adore Georges Méliès works, they hold so much creativity, especially at a time where people new little of the universe so it allowed so much room for imagination. I also find it so adorable how Méliès loves to include his wife in his works!
The tech they used to go to the moon and how capitalism destroyed the lush forests and mushroom caves of the moon. That's why when America returned there in '69 they found nothing but a desolate wasteland.
@@MonteKristof The tech they used to go to the moon and how capitalism destroyed the lush forests and mushroom caves of the moon. That's why when America returned there in '69 they found nothing but a desolate wasteland.
Man, Melies was a genius ahead of his time. I had a hard time trying to fall asleep last night. Call it pandemic anxiety. Call it workplace stress. I just needed to unwind. I went on youtube, ran into this movie, decided to go and crack open an 18 oz. of Foster's Lager, and sat down to watch it. Man, I kid you not, the power of this movie, even now, to have been able to laugh (the moon-eye landing always gets me rolling!!!) and relax. I slept like a baby. Mercy, Monsieur Georges Melies!!!
this so reminds me of the time me and my wizard buddies got together and planned a trip to the moon, built the ship, went to the moon, had wild moon adventures, and then went home… good times
@@greenschnisi The penal colony of NSW started in 1788 and eventually other colonies started, Van Dieman’s Land (Tasmania), Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, all of which federated into a nation in 1901 as part of the British Commonwealth, not independent but with a Governor General as the representation of the Head of State (the British Monarch) but with its own parliament and Prime Minister. Still the same today, with aforementioned colonies now states plus the Northern Territory and the Australia Capital Territory.
This is cinema history: not only one of the first movies ever, but maybe the first one with a plot and special effects, and almost for sure the first science-fiction flick
What I love about films like this today, is that all films today, one way or another have been inspired from other films. Steven Spielberg said every film he has ever made has been inspired by a personal commentary he had with Sir David Lean whilst watching Lawrence of Arabia. This film was the first! There was no former inspiration from other films! This is originality at its peak!
theepicjoshua That’s not what I meant, I meant from a filmmaking point of view. The camera zooming into the moon as the rocket flies towards it, might seem boring now, but in 1902 it was the first time we’d ever seen something like it.
some of the sets and costimes were pretty original. the plot and basic mechanism were striaght out of Jules Verne's First Men in the Moon .. except the face part. .. and the guy riding back outside the capsule..
How fitting it is that the infancy of cinema was filled with so much childhood wonder. A fantastical journey with a happy ending, no cynicism or pessimism about the future, just a dream captured in a 35mm film.
I remember when this came out, I was 27 years old and took my little brother to see it. He died later that day of a cold. Now I'm dead years old but it still brings back those sweet memories.
You and I think alike! I was thinking of editing this film footage and inserting my own dialog - explaining that this is the Apollo 11 mission. "Yes. This is exactly how it happened."
1902 : the 20th century was just unfolding .So much history to be made .So many great people would leave their mark . Alot of incredible music would be written
When you realize that people in 1902 had no idea as to the reality and manpower it would take to the moon. They got some of the ideas correct, but will never know what it was actually like to see a rocket fly into space. In the same way, we will never know what ideas we have that will be correct for the next century.
Wrong they were books over 50 to 60 years old at that point that detail it would be a 3 man. Red launched from Florida and multi stage rockets the tech just didn’t exist
Found this because of Tonight Tonight, and immediately fell in love with the imagery. Back in the day, making movies wasn't as easy as it is today, so to see all the craftsmanship involved... they truly loved what they were doing and experimenting with completely new ideas. Just mesmerizing!
Or so little. Use of Mattes, girls in sexy costumes, a comidic carachter, stop go motion, facial masques. All that has happned is the equipment has improved. But the thought and experiment that must have gone in to making it work the first time, in the most technically adavnaced media available? That is genius.
Je suis vraiment heureux d'avoir vu ce chef d'oeuvre, même si des scènes apparaissent bon enfant, le tout est fort agréable et joviale, Merci pour cette comédie qui compte 118 ans et qui ravira les amateurs! PfM
I was so confused. They fell into the Moon's sea and ended up back on Earth. Oh, they fell off the Moon back to Earth. 🤣 I love this short film so much. Everything about it is wonderful. Thank you for uploading it.
This is my all time favorite short movie. It's incredible what they were able to do back then. The special effects were way ahead of its time for being a early 1900s film.
Imagine what it would have been like if you were about 10 when you saw this movie and then you saw it happen in real life 67 years later when you were 77.
For some reason, watching this video in 1,5x the original velocity gives even more old era OG cinema vibes. I think that's because all the black and white movies footage of the silent era portrayed in the current media always seems kind of sped-up.
This is Magic Realism visualised for the first time ever. Imagine watching such a complex narrative unfold on screen. Based on the fact that they never saw any feature film previous to this, what kinds of strange questions would be popping up in general minds? "How did they get this footage? Did they really go to the moon? Did they really bring back an alien?" This is almost what 2001: A Space Odyssey was for us in 1969 .
The birth of cinema is a MAGICAL story for me! 😊 Siince 1888 until today, it has developed incredibly! From short silent films (a funny and amazing time machine) to today's high tech industry.
For a moment, we traveled back in time. Marvels preserved and small stept taken. Now we can watch together from across the globe. Humanity takes one small step at a time, yet we always reach.
One of my favorite movies now, watching this is like being in a dream. Thanks for preserving Cinema where it counts, and the score you recorded fits perfectly, I honestly wouldn’t mind hearing you guys score another silent film. Keep it up!
I saw this when I was a little kid and used to have nightmares about that moon with the face. But this is a very impressive and important part of human history and crazy how everything developed so fast.
Yeah almost like this was early predictive programming propaganda. You wouldnt believe it was possible if it hadn't been rammed down your throat for 70 years before it even "happened". Apparently they knew it was possible long before they knew it was possible.
We made a new soundtrack for Steamboat Willie
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Check it out:
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Imagine seeing this film as a child in 1902 and then living to see it become reality 67 years later
I had a great great aunt who was born in the 1860s. She lived to be 104 and literally saw man go from covered wagons to men walking on the moon in her lifetime. Just incredible.
@@daltonjohnson38 well.. more of steam boats and trains. Wagons had been around for centuries before the 1860s but I get your point.
Was it a reality?? I have my doubts
@@christinarichie6171 There’s so much evidence proving that it would’ve been harder to fake the moon landing than doing it for real.
@@christinarichie6171 bless your heart, I’m sure you do
Just imagine how these actors would feel, knowing that more than a century later; we're able to watch their performances in the palms of our hands, without a projector.
I wonder how they felt seeing the moon landing 67 years later. Some of them might have seen this year. From a fantasy to reality!
While pooping
It's actually resting on my fingers.
What do you mean?
They will probably laugh, but if there was a prove, they just collapse
1900s kids will remember this.
They died
gone but not forgotten
old but gold
I am from 1800s
I dont remember :(
@@tiareibou WHAT IN THE HELL
DID YOU SURVIVE WORLD WAR 1
@@tiareibou Thats nuthin'
I'm from the year Cero
I can't get over how they brought their umbrellas to the moon and then didn't use them when it started storming... it's just so adorable
They did turn an umbrella into a giant mushroom around 10:40 !
Lol
That was no umbrella. Clearly it was hagrid's wand. Did you not see him avada kedavering all those demon-gollum creatures?
because Smashing pumpkins
😅😅😅😅
118 years later and I'm still waiting for the sequel. Sheesh.
this movie is actually it's own sequel. the novel it is based upon ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon ) ended on a massive, moon sized cliffhanger. the second book had them coming back, iirc.
@@alexmuller6752 It’s a joke
How does it feel be 118 years old?
@@carlb258 I don't feel a day over 115!
They made one in 1996.. th-cam.com/video/NOG3eus4ZSo/w-d-xo.html
i remember watching this back in the days oh how i miss 1902
You have kept well for your age.
Me too
Wow..awesome....
Wait......what?
how old are you now? 115?
@@TyrannosaurusTREW actually yes
This film is an important part of cinema history!
It's the first ever made science fiction movie.
Yep
my art teacher just introduce this movie to us on our art class today
Remember when we had to go to a black room with seats to watch the film ?
Poor Méliès got the film pirated by Thomas Edison, the film was a success in America, Georges Méliès never saw a penny from there...
@@Albanus35 Thomas Edison screwed someone over. That's not even a surprise anymore.
Random knowledge: In this era, sound couldn’t be recorded, which made audiences bored and find it hard to understand the story. So theatres hired orchestras to play live while the movie was rolling. For example, in Charlie Chaplin’s performances, musicians would be looking at the screen while playing live depending on what was happening at the time. This is why I’m so fascinated by musical theory; the fact that without any sound, a story can be hard to understand however, once music is played alongside it, it creates a certain atmosphere. Another example of this is leitmotifs for characters. A character could be out of the scene but as soon as you hear their leitmotif (their theme tune) the audience immediately recognises that character. It’s so interesting.
Leitmotiv is a very general description of something that changed a lot throughout the history of music. I don't know much about movies but the idea of having a topic (a specific recognizable melody) in a piece of music is as old as the concept of notating music. These sort of movies with their music are very expressive and nothing like what traditional harmony theory ever offered before. It's as you described "play what you see". Which makes this very unique and also somewhat unenjoyable if listened to by itself. And it's also incredibly difficult to create music like this on the fly. You'd have to really know your instrument
I needed that thank you
@@Homanjer I agree with you. This person also referenced the most basic, universally understandable comedy that needs nothing but body langugage for it's enjoyment, without any need of music.
Sound could be recorded. It just couldn't be synced with film.
I'm pretty sure music is a type of language since it has all the fundamental characteristics that language has. So yes, you can substitute spoken language with music.
The entire time I was wondering how they planned to get back. They just fell back of course lol.
They will sleep for a few years. When they wake up, the Americans will find them. Damn snow..
Looks like the makers of the movie were members of the flat moon society.
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Why are you laughing? Imagine t he amount of people who got hurt when they fell down the moon!
Why isn't the lighthouse on the moon lit?
What made this movie groundbreaking at the time was the "special effects" as we would call them today. The way the sets move, the design for said sets, even the wardrobe and makeup of the actors, at the time it blew people's minds. George Melies was a stage magician before he got involved in filmmaking, and while some of his earlier movies used new techniques he came up with to give greater illusions, it was "Le Voyage dans la Lune" the one that pushed the envelope like never before. In a way George Melies was the father of special effects.
Thanks for the info. It makes so much sense thath the father of movie special effects was a magician
I wonder if he sold the rights to Disney & they made subpar versions of the original as well
It is amazing how fluent it looks when the landers hit the moon beings and they disappear into smoke clouds, you can barely see the cut only if you are willing to pay attention.
For sure he was
This was the Avatar of the 1900s.
Fun fact: the oldest still living human was born in 1903, so no human who is alive today was alive when this was filmed.
;)
@@cctz_1 what why ? Wtf are being racist???
@@cctz_1 YOU'RE GOING TO BRAZIL!!
@@blackscreen4985 I believe theyre talking about how brazil is a very unsafe place i dont think they ment to make it sound how it did
Where is the fun?
I came here to watch an almost 120-year old sci-fi movie through a super-smart hand-sized computer. I think this is great
That was more powerful then the tech that got us to the moon
Anybody else weirdly obsessed with the history of this work of art??
I love films so i enjoy things like this!
One time with my father we couldn’t come up with a movie to watch so he randomly picked metropolis and it was great actually
meee
@@wladchk I watched metropolis with my dad too, was pretty cool.
I'm learning about the invention of the camera and cinema in art class,we learned this movie and many others,and it's so awesome,I really love it
Every person in this movie is long dead now, but some will still have been alive in 1969 to watch the moon landings for real, would love to have their thoughts.
marty wise which was 67 years later. Probably the children in this movie were probably alive 67 years later but probably not the adults.
67 years where 2 world wars happenend. Sad to say but I dont think so.
I did some research and one of them did actually make it.
Henri Delannoy, played the captain. Lived to 103. Died in 1976. Glad to know he got to see it.
@@JWW-bj1sp Thanks for your research because thats really nice to know.
@@JWW-bj1sp living from 1873 to 1976, must be so WTF, so much change in this short period, went from a world without car plane helicopter, tv, computer, telephone, satellites, fridge, penicillin, few house with electricity to a world with all of THIS omfg
The fact that they're breathing without oxygen, the determination 🥶
Chill, just art
Greg Jennings is impressed.
And now we know where the moon dust comes from 😂
And why didn't NASA think of having the Apollo astronauts sleep outdoors on the moon?
Who knew in 1902, whether the Moon may have had oxygen somewhere on its surface! p.s. Even though
our astronauts in 1969, knew that there was no one on the Moon, I heard that Neil Armstrong secretly
carried a .45 pistol in his spacesuit, just in case!
- We can watch this silent short film over a century later with a home device connected to the internet is mind blowing to me
My favorite part was when they were being loaded into the space ship. It's like, "Alright boys, everyone got your space gear? Tophats---check. Pocket watches---check. Umbrellas in case it rains in space---check."
kolom gorov I dunno about thd tophats but their umbrellas aqe the sole reason they could kill moon warriors and make it back safely to the earth LOL
don't forget your blankies for when we need to take a nap on the moon
@@LittleB2007 You mean the umbrellas are parachutes, so they could jump of the moon and come to Earth and have a soft landing? - That's a really good idea.
"Big pp check"
😂😂😂😂😂
For those who watched this back in 1902, it felt incredibly real to them since a stage performance could never duplicate the special effects (especially all that superimposed stuff and the moon men who vanish into thin air upon being struck by the umbrella), editing, etc.
I remember hearing in film class audiences we're screaming in their seats in fear for their lives it was such a new & vivid experience for them.
technically, a stage performance would have been possible, but who has the budget to do this 5 times a week just for a few hundred people... if it was a one time thing, it wouldve been possible, but yeah, as a regular show it wouldve been too much effort
Every single one of them is dead, even at the time you posted the comment.
@@ABCDEFGH-or2eb He/she was talking about perception vs reality according to people of that era, not whether they are still alive or not. Doh!🤣🤣🤣
I love finding old clips like these because it feels like I'm going back time and experiencing events that happened before I was even born
Even before anybody else on this earth was born. That's fascinating.
In a way, the internet allows you to time travel. That is, as far as technology can go. (Tech that's able to capture some kind of footage) Obviously you can't physically time travel though, sadly. Or time travel before the invention of photography. Unless you count art as a means to look back into the past. But pictures and film/video is obviously better than art if you want to look into the past.
I can't get over how the women were dressed in this film. In 1902, that must have been scandalous. A lot of silent films are a peek into the reality of life in that time, this is a peek into the imagination of that time.
@@BrittneyAngel2010 really good observations.
Literally a whole human population no longer living
8:12 I love this little moment the film has as we and the characters see the far away Earth in the distance. Even so long ago, they've been always dreaming of this sight. Just imagine how they would feel to know that humans actually got to see it.
Underrated take.
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The effects were pretty good for that time to be honest.
Jovan Lee of course!!!!!
"pretty good"?? the effects were REVOLUTIONARY! to be honest
The effects do give it an atmosphere. They give it a fantastical feeling, similar to the Little Nemo comics if that makes any scene. Edit they give it a timeless feeling.
They were for the first time. How much work must have gone into just making things happen as they wanted. Pure genius.
What effects...? This is real
Still better CGI than the scorpion king
:D
Scrap-ion King...
@@fabiancueyoutube246 right
Yeah cgi... right....
And Sharknado... and it's even more realistic
Actor, Henri Delannoy (captain of the rocket) was still alive , he was 96 at the time of moon landing in 1969, so imagine his reaction to Apollo 11 landing
Except moon landing was a lie
@@sarpsarp8987 There's always that one person....
He didn't probably had a reaction at all at 96 most old people are senile.
He was most likely smart enough to know it was fake
Now THAT guy saw the world change! (1873 - 1969)
- just imagine how these actors would feel, knowing that more than a century later, we're able to watch their performances in the palms of our hands, without a projector.
imagine copypasting a comment for clout and only getting 4 likes
To many kids in those days, this was their Star Wars. They wanted to explore space but had no idea how we would do it.
Then died from diarhea 2 years later
I really cannot imagine how difficult making a film was. The scenes, the music, the actors and actresses... Everything is so funny for a 21th century's person to watch because so collow, but the fact it is one of the masterpiece which had brought the cinema industry perfectly up to the present, is just making me feel like the people whose only fictional world was about books and theatres until meeting with a screen so close to reality. That was an amazing development about 120 years ago, it just has a really special atmosphere. Feels so weird, *if these kind of films weren't made, we probably wouldn't have TH-cam to watch it on.*
The Turn of the Century prior to the Turn of the Century and a Millennium. Just look at that. It's even weird for a 1990s kid to watch because we saw the transition into TH-cam from things like Home Videos on VHS and DVD..and now not even 30 yearrs later everything can be filmed and edited on the same thing it's viewed with it's absolutely bananasto think about.
But imagine them with " Contactless Pizza Delivery." Or a Roomba?
My great grandmother would be graduating high school as this movie was filmed. I remember chatting with her a few times before she passed away in '78, when I was 8. Now her great-great grandkid (my daughter) is 13. Trippy.
My great grandmother would have been born that year 😄
I'm 23 and my great grandparents were all born in the 1910s I believe so it really shows how old this movie is.
@@williamwallace4080 ...and it shows how young you are. My great grandfather was 62 when this movie was made. 😄
Proof?
@@lairx 1840? Jesus Christ
Wonderful movie. 3 things stand out.
1) They showed Earth-rise on the Moon.
2) On their return, the spaceship/capsule splashed in the ocean and was retrieved.
3) The 'Astronauts' were given a public reception for their achievement.
We saw all these 3 play out for real during the Apollo missions that happened some 65-70 years later from when this was filmed.
Such imagination! 😃
or they took all this to create another hoax?!
Indeed ! A marvelous film
And the fact that even before the airplane was invented, they imagined that to reach the moon you had to use a "big bullet", which is indeed similiar to a rocket.
Imagine ruling an entire kingdom only to turn into a cloud of dust when an old french guy throws you to the ground
Boy, would my face be red!
They're wizards. Used magic.
French killing nobles, am I right?
Who are the beings on the moon
Ouch, right in the monarchy.
I remember seeing a snapshot of this film in a magazine when i was little, after all these years finally found it, what a monument for the film industry
was it the moon with the rocket thing in its eye? I've seen that same image somewhere in my childhood
It was in 1902
I remember that I heard about this film at the kid it's way beyond your time
i cried my eyes out.... the mere existence of this masterpiece and the fact that i`m watching this on my laptop in 2020 is too much to handle....... god bless georges mellies
You’re just weird
@@sintoten3049 how
@@sintoten3049 nah
@@sintoten3049 stfu
@@sintoten3049 who isn't tho?
I remember watching Hugo as a child just falling in love with the film. I had no idea at the time that this was actually based off history but I'd say this movie here was in a way the one that got me into movies.
I feel the exact same
Honestly if I’d never read the book/watched the movie I NEVER would’ve been as I retested in film as I am now
The dream scene where Hugo pulls apart his jacket to reveal a clockwork torso gave me nightmares and thinking about it still spooks me a bit to this day.
This movie is almost 120 years old, and still a masterpiece
A milestone
Amazingly, this was a year *before* the first airplane and yet *only 67 years* before men actually landed on the moon and safely returned.
Think how much technology had to develop in that short time!
no one has landed on the moon
@@Augfordpdoggie 😐
@@Augfordpdoggie that’s not true, i have landed on the moon
And how little technology has happened since the moon landing.
@@WilliamPotts3 Bah, that's humbug. You're just not aware of the massive strides we took when it comes to the miniturization of transistors and computer technology. Chosen ignorance, nothing more.
This was 10 years before the Titanic sank.
This was before the Great War
This was before sliced 🍞...😂
The name of the boat was not "titanic"
the last veteran of the war of 1812 died in 1905, there was at least that one person who fought in the war of 1812 still alive when this was made, maybe one or two others
@@amondechene4792 First of all it's a ship not a boat, secondly yes its name was RMS Titanic.
It's very clever : the space module is a bullet, the moon getting it in the eye !
The costumes are impressive !
Such a treat !
Thank you for sharing this 120 years old movie !
This soundtrack is so great! I think a lot of musical scores people have written for this film are distracting and bombastic. The simple, bouncy brass quintet is just the thing for this old-fashioned film!
Thank you so much! ❤️
During the scene where they're building the rocket, the three blacksmiths on the left side of the screen are actually a direct video reference to the "Three Blacksmiths Scene" filmed by the Edison Kinetoscope in 1893. It is, quite possibly, one of the first known movie references in film history.
Fuckin memberberries,
everywhere in our movies! >:/
To think that some of these actors or people watching this back in 1902 lived to see the moon landing 67 years later is incredible.
When the actor who played the moon saw that Apollo 11 had landed, he must have suffered a sharp pain around his right eye just from memory.
I adore Georges Méliès works, they hold so much creativity, especially at a time where people new little of the universe so it allowed so much room for imagination. I also find it so adorable how Méliès loves to include his wife in his works!
These people didn't know we're going to the moon for real in the next 67 years.
That's another kind of movie
"Real" lol
I thought that was a lemon on a coathanger?
Did we?
No they knew to get people to believe it they needed to start a propaganda campaign 67 years earlier to propagate the idea was possible.
Thank you for not cropping the original aspect ratio and also for not putting a tacky permanent watermark over the picture.
The 15 most important minutes in the History of sci-fi cinema. Just that
My mind is blown.
119 Years old.
I enjoyed this very much, I also genuinely laughed at many scenes,fantastic,masterpiece,bravo.
I hope this is saved in the National Archives for people to enjoy for thousands of years to come.
This may be a science-fiction film, but it says a lot about 1902.
How so?
The tech they used to go to the moon and how capitalism destroyed the lush forests and mushroom caves of the moon. That's why when America returned there in '69 they found nothing but a desolate wasteland.
@@MonteKristof and also turned off the gravity
The way they treat lunar creatures. The monarchy in the moon. This is a really funny and limited way to see the universe
@@MonteKristof The tech they used to go to the moon and how capitalism destroyed the lush forests and mushroom caves of the moon. That's why when America returned there in '69 they found nothing but a desolate wasteland.
Man, Melies was a genius ahead of his time. I had a hard time trying to fall asleep last night. Call it pandemic anxiety. Call it workplace stress. I just needed to unwind. I went on youtube, ran into this movie, decided to go and crack open an 18 oz. of Foster's Lager, and sat down to watch it. Man, I kid you not, the power of this movie, even now, to have been able to laugh (the moon-eye landing always gets me rolling!!!) and relax. I slept like a baby. Mercy, Monsieur Georges Melies!!!
What pandemic. They fooled you
this so reminds me of the time me and my wizard buddies got together and planned a trip to the moon, built the ship, went to the moon, had wild moon adventures, and then went home… good times
This movie came out 1 year after Australia was founded
Not exactly. It was found 1788. But Australia got indipendent in the year of 1901.
You mean the year Australia became a federation
@@greenschnisi The penal colony of NSW started in 1788 and eventually other colonies started, Van Dieman’s Land (Tasmania), Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, all of which federated into a nation in 1901 as part of the British Commonwealth, not independent but with a Governor General as the representation of the Head of State (the British Monarch) but with its own parliament and Prime Minister. Still the same today, with aforementioned colonies now states plus the Northern Territory and the Australia Capital Territory.
this movie came out when the ottoman empire was still alive :D
this movie came out when at least one veteran of the war of 1812 was still alive, the last one died in 1905
Amazing to think they did that in 1902
Because art push the human mind to his limits.
This came out closer to the French Revolution than to the present day.
That moon's face is so creepy for me lol.
Ho Chan that was life back then kid, soon, we would be the creepy ones..
Like in zelda
I seen a similar image in an old comic book when I was a kid.
Can we hit 3 Subscribers you’re literally 12...
it's the Majoras moon.
This is cinema history: not only one of the first movies ever, but maybe the first one with a plot and special effects, and almost for sure the first science-fiction flick
What I love about films like this today, is that all films today, one way or another have been inspired from other films. Steven Spielberg said every film he has ever made has been inspired by a personal commentary he had with Sir David Lean whilst watching Lawrence of Arabia.
This film was the first! There was no former inspiration from other films! This is originality at its peak!
No former inspiration? Really? I heard this movie was based off of the Jules Verne books.
theepicjoshua That’s not what I meant, I meant from a filmmaking point of view. The camera zooming into the moon as the rocket flies towards it, might seem boring now, but in 1902 it was the first time we’d ever seen something like it.
I think that people who work in theater should watch movies like this so they can see how special effects were done back then
Its inspired by George's previous films
some of the sets and costimes were pretty original. the plot and basic mechanism were striaght out of Jules Verne's First Men in the Moon .. except the face part. .. and the guy riding back outside the capsule..
You dont find this video
This video finds you.
The fact that you reversed the words in your name is hurting me.
Ussr meme?
*In Soviet Russia, the video watch you*
Hey, you're right
I found it! But I imagine the vast majority of people didn't know it existed haha
How fitting it is that the infancy of cinema was filled with so much childhood wonder. A fantastical journey with a happy ending, no cynicism or pessimism about the future, just a dream captured in a 35mm film.
I remember when this came out, I was 27 years old and took my little brother to see it. He died later that day of a cold. Now I'm dead years old but it still brings back those sweet memories.
If I can make a movie like this now, I would still be proud of myself
I'm gonna tell my kids that this is the footage of Niel Armstrong landing on the moon!
It's false information, but do it 😂😂
You and I think alike! I was thinking of editing this film footage and inserting my own dialog - explaining that this is the Apollo 11 mission. "Yes. This is exactly how it happened."
no you not
Ah yes
Go on they need a laugh.
It's the film in the movie "Hugo"
The movie is based off the book called the invention of Hugo cabret
yes it is. in France there is a monument about it, where the autor was inspired for Hugo Cabret's film.
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I read it too!
So many illustrated pages!
I simply loved it
yes
I read it too
Merveilleux de voir ces acteurs et les costumes !
Merci de partager ce chef d'œuvre !
1902 : the 20th century was just unfolding .So much history to be made .So many great people would leave their mark . Alot of incredible music would be written
When you realize that people in 1902 had no idea as to the reality and manpower it would take to the moon. They got some of the ideas correct, but will never know what it was actually like to see a rocket fly into space. In the same way, we will never know what ideas we have that will be correct for the next century.
Wrong they were books over 50 to 60 years old at that point that detail it would be a 3 man. Red launched from Florida and multi stage rockets the tech just didn’t exist
The 'giant bullet' idea isn't such a bad one, just needs some tweaking.
I‘m reading the comments and yes it is so unbelievable that we can watch this on our small devices like guys REALIZE THAT
- Imagine seeing this film as a child in 1902 and then living to see it become reality 67 years later.
So this is where the moon came from in the Smashing Pumpkins "Tonight, Tonight", music video..
Yes, mr 1.5mil subscribers
The whole video was like this film. The umbrellas busting the moon people and the fall into the ocean.
Top 10 Archive That entire video was an homage to this film, yeah
Yes the music video is actually based on this movie.
I love that song and it's steampunk video
Found this because of Tonight Tonight, and immediately fell in love with the imagery. Back in the day, making movies wasn't as easy as it is today, so to see all the craftsmanship involved... they truly loved what they were doing and experimenting with completely new ideas. Just mesmerizing!
It’s just fascinating to see how much cinema has changed since then.
Or so little. Use of Mattes, girls in sexy costumes, a comidic carachter, stop go motion, facial masques. All that has happned is the equipment has improved. But the thought and experiment that must have gone in to making it work the first time, in the most technically adavnaced media available? That is genius.
This is literally something me and my friends would make when we were kids and I love it!
can you imagine, all these legends never realize what they did will last forever after till rest of humankind history
117 Years ;-;
А кажется, что вчера только сняли...
Yes , and the actors are all death
William Reeves
@@mariohuano7149
*FACTS*
118 today :)
The oldest Science-Fiction movie ever
No the oldest one was about going to Mars by I think Thomas Edison.
@@ansh6370 Nope.Going to Mars was released in 1904 while a trip to the moon on 1902
Still better than Disney's Star Wars
The oldest SFM
@@popkorn256 *Star Wars in general
I guess this would be the first sci-fi film ever made. Cool.
Je suis vraiment heureux d'avoir vu ce chef d'oeuvre, même si des scènes apparaissent bon enfant, le tout est fort agréable et joviale, Merci pour cette comédie qui compte 118 ans et qui ravira les amateurs! PfM
Subtitles be like
“Wow
[Music]”
I was so confused. They fell into the Moon's sea and ended up back on Earth.
Oh, they fell off the Moon back to Earth. 🤣
I love this short film so much. Everything about it is wonderful. Thank you for uploading it.
Xq cayeron supuestamente del espacio,donde esta la luna al mar , que está en la 🌎
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This is my all time favorite short movie. It's incredible what they were able to do back then. The special effects were way ahead of its time for being a early 1900s film.
Editor: "how much trumpet should I add?"
Producer: "yes."
I just watch the entire video from the start and to end
I like 1900s Movie now :D
@Australian Eugenics Expert It's 1942. Are you from the future?
Georges Melies is the pride of french Cinema !
Imagine what it would have been like if you were about 10 when you saw this movie and then you saw it happen in real life 67 years later when you were 77.
can we take a moment and appreciate how well done those props were
So much of the moon they didn't know about. Hell of a imagination
For some reason, watching this video in 1,5x the original velocity gives even more old era OG cinema vibes. I think that's because all the black and white movies footage of the silent era portrayed in the current media always seems kind of sped-up.
Many silent films are played at a modern, standard digital frame rate, which is of course much faster than they’re supposed to be played
This is Magic Realism visualised for the first time ever. Imagine watching such a complex narrative unfold on screen. Based on the fact that they never saw any feature film previous to this, what kinds of strange questions would be popping up in general minds? "How did they get this footage? Did they really go to the moon? Did they really bring back an alien?"
This is almost what 2001: A Space Odyssey was for us in 1969 .
I think anyone who saw this film would have seen at least one play before.
Who's still watching this 118 year old film and find this as a masterpiece?
@Jorge Amaya La poesie est eternelle ,sauf pour les débiles (et encore !).
If its a Masterpiece, Time will not affect that inherent quality.
Can't believe the sheer magnitude of the level of our understanding of astrophysics back in 1902.
The birth of cinema is a MAGICAL story for me! 😊 Siince 1888 until today, it has developed incredibly!
From short silent films (a funny and amazing time machine) to today's high tech industry.
For a moment, we traveled back in time. Marvels preserved and small stept taken. Now we can watch together from across the globe. Humanity takes one small step at a time, yet we always reach.
Hard to believe that we’ll be coming up to the 120th anniversary of this film soon.
Wouldn't have been the same without the music! Good job
Thank you!! 🎶🎶
8:15 proof that Earth isn't flat
Ppl this and last decade are stupid lol
Even ppl in the 1900 would facepalm at the fucking flat earthers today
AND proof that moon is a pie 😂🤣
No, it's a flat circle.
@@erch3rejc986 guys we found a flat earther
This was Georges Méliès' best film yet.
This is quite possibly the very first Sci Fi film ever made
One of my favorite movies now, watching this is like being in a dream. Thanks for preserving Cinema where it counts, and the score you recorded fits perfectly, I honestly wouldn’t mind hearing you guys score another silent film. Keep it up!
Thank you! If you like our work on silent movies here you can watch and listen to another one:
th-cam.com/video/BMsMOi_d7kY/w-d-xo.html
😉
A gang of elderly astronomers wacking exloding-moon-creatures with their umbrellas, then body-slamming their king and making a run for it. Hilarious!
Guys being dudes
I love the detailed backgrounds so well designed. 🥰
Still better than The Last Jedi
Chase Webb everything’s better than star wars when you’re not a virgin
@@M1sterBruh even the Incredible Bulk?
The Last Jedi is still far better than the Prequels.
@Algo de MA Yep. The Prequels are Trash.
@@patrickweidmann4626 nah last jedi makes the prequels look good.
also revenge of the sith was pretty sweat
I imagine how fun this should be for people
I saw this when I was a little kid and used to have nightmares about that moon with the face. But this is a very impressive and important part of human history and crazy how everything developed so fast.
Yeah almost like this was early predictive programming propaganda. You wouldnt believe it was possible if it hadn't been rammed down your throat for 70 years before it even "happened". Apparently they knew it was possible long before they knew it was possible.