The Astronomers Dream (1898) Georges Méliès

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  • This early silent film was created/directed by Georges Méliès and was released in France under the name, "La lune à un mètre," in 1898.
    In the film an astronomer is studying at his desk in an observatory. The devil appears, then a woman appears and makes the devil and herself vanish. The astronomer draws a globe on a blackboard which comes to life and starts to move on the blackboard. The astronomer then looks through a small telescope.
    The moon appears as a large face and eats the astronomer's telescope. Men tumble from its mouth. Then the moon is back in the sky. The astronomer stands on a table, which disappears and he falls down.
    The moon becomes a crescent. A spirit, in the form of a lady, appears from it. The astronomer chases her, but she eludes him. Now another figure stands in the crescent of the moon, before reclining into its C shape.
    The moon appears as a large face again, and the astronomer jumps into its mouth and a woman and the devil appear again. The astronomer reappears sitting asleep in his chair.

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  • @Eleni_E
    @Eleni_E 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1199

    I like the implication that all astronomers do their work in wizard hats. Clearly this is a tradition that needs to be brought back!

    • @Awakeningspirit20
      @Awakeningspirit20 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      From what I've heard, this was a running gag of his to blur the lines between science and basically alchemy/nonsense to imply that both are very speculative and both, in their time, thought they had all the answers. So all the scientists are portrayed as wizards

    • @soldtobediers
      @soldtobediers 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ''I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum“
      ''We'll shoot the moon, and hope to call the tune, and make no pin cushion of this big balloon.''
      “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
      ''Oh man has invented his doom. First step was touching the moon.''
      ''If there are aliens out there they shouldn't have anything to do with us, because the only thing that the human species can do perfectly is just make a mess out of stuff. I mean we have; it's so easy for anything that is a human organism is just to cause destruction because we have this ability to invent destructive things.''
      ~ George Bernard Shaw - Bob Dylan - God - Frank Zappa or Jethro Tull?

    • @groba50
      @groba50 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Scientist are wizards, yeah 😎😂😂

    • @scholaroftheworldalternatehist
      @scholaroftheworldalternatehist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Awakeningspirit20 Very nice parallel to today. Even today scientists think they have all the answers even though its only 100 more years of knowledge.

    • @christophertomasello1227
      @christophertomasello1227 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Don't let the flat earthers see this they might want to use it as "evidence"

  • @ErdoganBal.
    @ErdoganBal. ปีที่แล้ว +449

    To be able to make a film like this in 1898 is truly an amazing achievement.

    • @almondosebastiano584
      @almondosebastiano584 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If I don't get wrong,the first Drácula by Bram Stroker since 1897.

    • @almondosebastiano584
      @almondosebastiano584 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ErdoganBal. Thanks..

    • @almondosebastiano584
      @almondosebastiano584 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iamme25yago 👍👍👍👍

    • @CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui
      @CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Remember, movies were only 3 years old with the first one being in 1895.

    • @ErdoganBal.
      @ErdoganBal. 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui I already know. You don't need to copy and paste.

  • @asmodeojung
    @asmodeojung 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1161

    117 years after it is still creepy as hell. That moon face I will never forget.

    • @lonelygoombasmother5005
      @lonelygoombasmother5005 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      cause it's so edgy

    • @lonelygoombasmother5005
      @lonelygoombasmother5005 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Zenic Xodus I know right

    • @lonelygoombasmother5005
      @lonelygoombasmother5005 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Zenic Xodus this video is pretty mlg if you ask me

    • @lonelygoombasmother5005
      @lonelygoombasmother5005 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Zenic Xodus this video is actually one of the. earliest mlg and dank memes ever it's also pretty edgy

    • @lonelygoombasmother5005
      @lonelygoombasmother5005 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Zenic Xodus he also ate the dankest and finest mountain dew and Doritos he also 420 blazed on top of mount Everest he's the original snoop dogg

  • @Kaputnik11
    @Kaputnik11 7 ปีที่แล้ว +615

    What a perfect circle he drew.

    • @mohamad83742
      @mohamad83742 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It was a prop

    • @RyanBedlack
      @RyanBedlack 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Maynard would be proud

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Calipers existed in 1898

  • @everestcanyon5647
    @everestcanyon5647 4 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    SECRET: This is actually a Prequel to Trip to the Moon, where they fly to the Moon to smash it's eye out in revenge for eating him.

    • @taraquinch1256
      @taraquinch1256 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No..!?

    • @MadChristoph
      @MadChristoph 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's what I thought

    • @carlosmarx2380
      @carlosmarx2380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Cant be a prequel if its older lol

    • @TheGingiGamer
      @TheGingiGamer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@carlosmarx2380 A Trip to the Moon came out in 1902, 4 years after this one

    • @carlosmarx2380
      @carlosmarx2380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheGingiGamer yeah I know so it can't be a prequel.

  • @krakrug3958
    @krakrug3958 6 ปีที่แล้ว +557

    Imagine watching this in 1898

    • @TheAstralthief
      @TheAstralthief 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Pan Kruk it was made 1902

    • @noa5725
      @noa5725 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@TheAstralthief No that was a different movie called :A Trip To The Moon"

    • @zzzbbbooo
      @zzzbbbooo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It would have been the most exciting thing in the world.

    • @NUSORCA
      @NUSORCA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Like we watched Avatar in 2009

    • @Hippity_hoppity87
      @Hippity_hoppity87 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Probably scarier back then

  • @DeadEyedTye
    @DeadEyedTye 5 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    Very astonishing. Just imagine seeing this in the 1898, they probably thought this was the greatest thing in the world.

    • @okokokokokokokokkook
      @okokokokokokokokkook 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      were they wrong

    • @DeadEyedTye
      @DeadEyedTye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@okokokokokokokokkook Not at all

    • @samquek1025
      @samquek1025 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      i still think this was the greatest thing in the world in 2022

    • @jgrab1
      @jgrab1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually Avatar came out that year and critics liked that better. ;-)

    • @jessejive117
      @jessejive117 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@samquek1025stoop kid?

  • @gloriahanes6490
    @gloriahanes6490 3 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    0:13 Georges Melies' wife who appeared in all his films you will notice her in every single silent film no matter how small the role. George Melies also designed his own props and stage sets, and you will find objects disappear and reappear this is because he was a great magician by trade and his wife his assistant. Also, he is the bearded man in this film as he played a character in all his silent films. See the movie "Hugo" if you want to know more about Georges Melies. Enjoy!

    • @Awakeningspirit20
      @Awakeningspirit20 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He was a lucky guy in MANY ways!

    • @ISIO-George
      @ISIO-George 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Though not his wife at the time of making the films. Jehanne d'Alcy is the actress and was Melies' mistress. He married d'Alcy long after his film making days were over and his first wife had died. Hugo is a wonderful homage to Melies but greatly inaccurate about his private life and why his career as a film maker ended.

    • @bistredehomard2123
      @bistredehomard2123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tanks for the informations😀!!!

    • @soldtobediers
      @soldtobediers 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Obligements for that depth. Please dig the following moon spectrums that'd sprang strong to mind during my bewildered brain's 70 circuits round the sun...
      ''I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum“
      ''We'll shoot the moon, and hope to call the tune, and make no pin cushion of this big balloon.''
      “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
      ''I knew a girl who was almost a lady
      She had a way with all the men in her life
      Every inch of her blossomed in beauty
      And she was born on the fourth of July
      Well she lived in an aluminum house trailer
      And she worked in a juke box saloon
      And she spent all the money I give her
      Just to see the old man in the moon''
      ''Oh man has invented his doom. First step was touching the moon.''
      ''If there are aliens out there they shouldn't have anything to do with us, because the only thing that the human species can do perfectly is just make a mess out of stuff. I mean we have; it's so easy for anything that is a human organism is just to cause destruction because we have this ability to invent destructive things.''
      ~ John Prine - George Bernard Shaw - Bob Dylan - God - Frank Zappa or Jethro Tull?

    • @darkcloud8244
      @darkcloud8244 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just watch Hugo and here I am, absolutely loved it

  • @jacobquiroga626
    @jacobquiroga626 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    This film definitely looked like it was ahead of it's time!!! Now that it's 2023, this film is now 125 years old!!! 😱😱😱

  • @TintedVisionMovies
    @TintedVisionMovies 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1977

    Only 90s kids will remember this

    • @fatalities.v
      @fatalities.v 7 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      Tinted VisionZz *1890s kids :-P*

    • @thehoosierfortheUK
      @thehoosierfortheUK 7 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Tinted VisionZz yeah, 1890s!

    • @rebeccaluis1223
      @rebeccaluis1223 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Tinted VisionZz oh back in my day (the 1890s) instead of using our fancy machine screens we used sticks to play and loved and we didn't have cars back than and this film was a spectacle to the eys

    • @RatedRollins_
      @RatedRollins_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lmao

    • @zackcolbourne6921
      @zackcolbourne6921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Everyone here has conspired to ruin the timing and restraint of your joke.

  • @koelael2660
    @koelael2660 7 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    My great great great grandmother was 20 when this film came out.

    • @tearet741
      @tearet741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On which side ? On mother or father ?

    • @elias7748
      @elias7748 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mine was probably 50 or something

    • @kiplingwasafurry1108
      @kiplingwasafurry1108 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      my great grandfather was 11 when this was released

    • @jacobquiroga626
      @jacobquiroga626 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow, nice & interesting! I don't know when my Great-Great-Great-Grandma was born, but my best guess is she was probably born in either the late 1880s or early 1890s, so it's like this was made during her childhood, lol!...

    • @jacobquiroga626
      @jacobquiroga626 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kiplingwasafurry1108 Just one great?! Wow! My Great-Grandpa was only born in 1929...

  • @beachedbum8682
    @beachedbum8682 5 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    So, it's a warm summers' evening in Paris 1898. Your girlfriend/wife/mistress has just spent an hour and a half getting dressed in 5 layers of corsets and bloomers. You rode in a horse drawn carriage across the city for a fine dinner of snails and blood-sausage and then you go to the theater to see a 3 minute, 30 second film and head back home for the evening.

    • @Journeestothesmokeymoon
      @Journeestothesmokeymoon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Wow. Isnt that the truth. Maybe they had double features then :)

    • @TheBanMan
      @TheBanMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      They would have displayed multiple films, and probably some vaudeville acts as well

    • @Jaml321
      @Jaml321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Worth it. Had blood-sausage.

    • @Mr_x_19922
      @Mr_x_19922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I don't think it worked that way. Cinemas back then were linked to theaters, so it's very likely they watched a few movies before and after watching a teather show, which was much longer, so in total they would stay at least 1 or 2 hours

    • @goodstuff8156
      @goodstuff8156 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why can’t we go back?

  • @Mr.Atari2600
    @Mr.Atari2600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +260

    It's 2020.
    Me: *Proceeds to watch 122 year old film*

    • @perseusarkouda
      @perseusarkouda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I'd love to be able to see a 1022 year old film. Imagine being able to see the middle ages. Hopefully the world will survive for future people to be able to live that.

    • @chiefgamingbear1397
      @chiefgamingbear1397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      123 now cuz I am in 2021 stuck in lockdown

    • @newmanoutdoors1564
      @newmanoutdoors1564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      2021 now 123 yrs

    • @kimicappiello5480
      @kimicappiello5480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You should check out the channel silentfilmhouse has lots of this...

    • @JackYeagerA1
      @JackYeagerA1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Its 2021 and i am loving all these old movies and stuffs of about more than 100 years XD

  • @universal2025
    @universal2025 8 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    I love old shorts like this if was not for stuff like this we never have what we have today

  • @rotciv1492
    @rotciv1492 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Georges Méliès is one of the best examples to showcase the power of ingenuity.
    When you have no past examples to base your work upon and all you possess is your mind and creativity, you can really do wonderful things.

    • @garryferrington811
      @garryferrington811 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      These were an extension of his theatrical magic shows.

  • @jamesdevine1246
    @jamesdevine1246 6 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    I find this film oddly comforting; such an imaginative short that inspires the imagination and makes you think about just how wonderful film can really be. Then again, most of Georges Melies' surviving films have that effect. :)

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s the creepiest thing that ever existed ever

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bottle3124 That is strictly because it is French and so wonderful in that way. Inimitable!

  • @fransiscoscaramanga674
    @fransiscoscaramanga674 2 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    this is 1898? damn, this footage looks a lot better than a lot of today's security cameras......

    • @peterpiper831
      @peterpiper831 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Or photos of the Loch Ness monster, Yeti...

    • @trumpetm6013
      @trumpetm6013 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Or footage of UFO sightings

  • @a.m-j2474
    @a.m-j2474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    If there was a child right in front of you, what would you do ?
    George Méliès: 1:32

    • @LePogger
      @LePogger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Launch the child into orbit

    • @luckyrabbit1923
      @luckyrabbit1923 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeet the child

    • @ordinariorange
      @ordinariorange 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      💀💀💀💀💀

  • @corbanrdl
    @corbanrdl ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I love the simplicity of these old films. They just had an idea they thought was fun and executed it

  • @tomcata1467
    @tomcata1467 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Amazingly sophisticated and entertaining given the fact that this was at the dawn of film making....a man ahead of his time, Georges Melies.......

  • @CacoQueen
    @CacoQueen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    If only that prop was still around, such an intricate work of art

  • @piperkoehler9593
    @piperkoehler9593 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    this is a piece of art

  • @metamorphony8834
    @metamorphony8834 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I never had this reaction to anything ever, but silent black and white movies just give me small tingles in my heart, it has a soothing effect. I just breath as I feel my BPM dropping. Anyone else?

  • @rongendron8705
    @rongendron8705 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    At age 13, in 1959, I got my first Kodak' brownie' movie camera & projector (still have them) & proceeded to make
    3 minute, silent 'movies', with plots, using my teenage friends as actors! In only a few minutes, with care, an entire
    story could be told! / George Melies was a genius in being able to do this, since he had no predecessors, in 1898!
    (p.s. In 1964, my 'bunk mate' in Army Basic training was Terry Gilliam, who would go on to "Monty Python" fame &
    to direct movies reminiscent of George Melies' films!)

  • @Nia_von_L
    @Nia_von_L 7 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    beautifully eerie is all I can say

  • @Valientlink
    @Valientlink 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This right here is the most remarkable film and animation there was and is honestly insanely impressive for it's time. This is so ahead of the curb it's not even funny. It's truly out of this world, surreal, original. This guy was a complete genius.

  • @caspence56
    @caspence56 6 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    How I would love to know how the audience reacted to this in 1898. I'm sure they were spellbound, but I wonder if they were as freaked out by that weird, chomping moon as I am 120 years later.

    • @kat35lulu88
      @kat35lulu88 ปีที่แล้ว

      When those kids were "spit out"...... the whole thing is weird.

  • @525Lines
    @525Lines ปีที่แล้ว +9

    One of the great things about these very early silent films is how it shows the period stagecraft. All these props were very much part of the Victorian stage. The 80s movie Munchausen shows some of that.

  • @librarian66
    @librarian66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    124 years old and it's still remarkable!

  • @MadaraUchiha-mw9ee
    @MadaraUchiha-mw9ee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    dumbledore while nobody at his room

  • @NickRivers-fg8mk
    @NickRivers-fg8mk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It's truly amazing how far cinematography has gone

  • @BrucesPhonograph
    @BrucesPhonograph 10 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Moon related topics like this were somewhat of a commonplace at the turn of the 19th century. At the St. Louis worlds fair there was a "Trip to the Moon" which had similar weird graphics like this. It was on the Pike, the entertainment portion of the fair. I think this movie recreates some of the spirit of the fair, especially that "along the Pike in 1904.

    • @ilanarhian
      @ilanarhian 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Trip to the Moon was done by the same man :)

  • @Scorpion-cn7it
    @Scorpion-cn7it 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The Astronomer's Dream, is like the resemblance of life, the sad piano soundtrack is really good about life. Everything that's going on to him is like life getting in the way, the Moon that chomps through everything is like hell toying with your mind, guess why it looks creepy and why the near end the Devil from the very beginning of the film comes out. Then after all the living hell there's a hope in the dark, the woman which I believe is the guardian angel restores and helps the astronomer to put things back to normal so that he can make his dream come true. (Birth, Life, Death, Legacy)

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว

      it was just a children spitting moon in a dream

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you have any idea how complicated your circulatory system is

  • @Christbepraised
    @Christbepraised 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Brilliant. Such a shame so much of his work was destroyed

  • @jwood8769
    @jwood8769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I love that the astronomer threw the kids back in the moons mouth, like y’all got to go! 😂😂

    • @meridaskywalker7816
      @meridaskywalker7816 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kids at his workroom are probably his worst nightmare

    • @EmanNagi
      @EmanNagi ปีที่แล้ว

      Scared the hell outta me 😂

  • @MegaTOWNHALL
    @MegaTOWNHALL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This piano track is absolutely amazing

    • @iadorenewyork1
      @iadorenewyork1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I play a lot like this. When it sounds like this, I know I'm doing well ...

  • @thehoosierfortheUK
    @thehoosierfortheUK 7 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    The moon looks like if Thomas the Tank Engine and Animal from Muppet Babies had a bastard love child.

    • @isaacdyer6556
      @isaacdyer6556 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My thought as well. Only difference is that I had Animal swapped out with Alfred E. Newman from Mad Magazine.

    • @moodSlime_
      @moodSlime_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Outstandingly valid!

    • @warpey5632
      @warpey5632 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Either way it's pure nightmare fuel.

    • @edgarallanpoestheblackcat6613
      @edgarallanpoestheblackcat6613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's creepy as hell, could easily give someone nightmares

    • @RobertaSoares23
      @RobertaSoares23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      your comment is perfect

  • @ceceliapassarella8485
    @ceceliapassarella8485 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Amazinly crisp celluloid beautifully preserved and digitized for mod film buffs. Having thoroughly enjoyed Hugo the silver screen adaptation of the Melies story ( with artistic interpretation ;) I was happy to find the originals and you can see the theatrical stage magician transform into the creative vision thankful these clips have not melted into silver nitrate

    • @silentfilmhouse
      @silentfilmhouse  9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cecelia Passarella true, even now some lost films reappear :)

  • @efe_aydal
    @efe_aydal 7 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    I wonder, didn't they watch these films and say "we're moving so fricking fast, maybe we should slow down the film on playback"

    • @redseagaming7832
      @redseagaming7832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Due to expensive film in 1898. the average film playback rate was 12 frames a second.

    • @chandlerlewis3309
      @chandlerlewis3309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      put the playback speed on .75. That's closer to what it looked like in 1898.

    • @omerkaraman7564
      @omerkaraman7564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      efe abem yakaladım seni 3 yıl sonra :)

    • @toprakakkol
      @toprakakkol 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      efe aydal.

    • @codeoptimizationware2803
      @codeoptimizationware2803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chandlerlewis3309 :
      You have a machine in 1898 that would do exactly that, or would you do it just right by hand? Will you be quiet, neanderthal, if you please, ugh, ugh!

  • @michaelgannon8364
    @michaelgannon8364 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    better than 99% of hollywood productions from the past couple of decades

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you saying that the Jews deserved to suffer the holocaust? The audacity.

  • @ol2952
    @ol2952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The world was so beautiful n innocent back then

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah yes, a children spitting moon, so innocent

  • @ShreyaRao
    @ShreyaRao 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No because this is what dreams really look like and to execute it so well in 1898 is beyond mesmerizing

  • @bertovito5571
    @bertovito5571 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    unbelievably beautiful soundtrack, I don't know why it just gets me...

  • @aleal7234
    @aleal7234 8 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    I was in the 5th grade when this came out

    • @thehoosierfortheUK
      @thehoosierfortheUK 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Aleal damn! You must be 1,000 years old by now!

    • @vonchild4649
      @vonchild4649 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ... how?

    • @matthewa6478
      @matthewa6478 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      What?if that’s true you must be 130 years old by now

    • @gentidrini
      @gentidrini 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daaaang u must be 5000years old

    • @anthonyfudge7590
      @anthonyfudge7590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wow you're old I was in the 4th grade when this came out

  • @S1d-ney
    @S1d-ney 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can't help but love it's purity and creative balance of mixing original art work , impartial acting with a dash of Halloween craziness ....simply wonderful......👍👍

  • @sebastianmange1834
    @sebastianmange1834 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Gorgeous film. And the soundtrack it’s amazing. Love it!

  • @beez5793
    @beez5793 10 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Very strange video but very interesting again

  • @domclegg1225
    @domclegg1225 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is genuinely amazing, im so impressed. the 'chewing moon' is horrifying!

  • @bentomasko8087
    @bentomasko8087 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ah I remember this so fondly, going to the cinema to see this film with my pals in grade school.

    • @mariomaster101official
      @mariomaster101official 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wish I was old enough to be able to see it in theaters but I was born in the 2000s

  • @alkismexis3336
    @alkismexis3336 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This short film is scarier and creepier than most horror films nowadays like Crimson Peak or It.

  • @XplodinApple
    @XplodinApple 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This movie is scarier than most horror movies. This is actually really good for 1898

  • @Kazza_8240
    @Kazza_8240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4am, can't sleep, so I put this on, I'm hoping I have dreams inspired by this film ☺️

  • @rosariomontejanolanderos343
    @rosariomontejanolanderos343 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I'm still crying 😭 those people are dead like they died on 1950 or 60

    • @juzo1453
      @juzo1453 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Being a adult in the 1890s
      You die quicker

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The died in 1673

  • @GrandpasOldMoviesChest
    @GrandpasOldMoviesChest 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Omg, that's old. Loved it. Thanks for uploading!

  • @eggfun1467
    @eggfun1467 8 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    This gave me nightmares

    • @silentfilmhouse
      @silentfilmhouse  8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +EggFun146 I can understand

    • @MrZebra0306
      @MrZebra0306 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      me too. this is the scariest film and thing (the moon) i have ever seen!

    • @Lightning2OOO
      @Lightning2OOO 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Watch "The Dancing Pig" for a good time.

    • @silentwitness536
      @silentwitness536 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Cant sleep. Moon will eat me....... Cant sleep. Moon will eat me........

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

  • @Unidentifying
    @Unidentifying 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    absolutely love the added music on these shorts, great taste

  • @craigbutterfield592
    @craigbutterfield592 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Find this far more captivating than any of the CGI junk made today. It just captures the imagination in its simplicity

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s a children spitting moon

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว

      You’d go back there you’d be bored out of your mind

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว

      Imagine calling technology the thing keeping us alive junk

  • @RyanCauvain
    @RyanCauvain 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good ol' silent early 1900s films. They are just as good as pop tarts and that "moon" is beautiful and perfect. Its face is astoundingly talented.

    • @jacobquiroga626
      @jacobquiroga626 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Μάριος ΒΣ Eh, close enough. 1898 was the late 1890s

  • @josephgregory8360
    @josephgregory8360 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nobody:
    That one kid: Ahhhh the good old days

    • @almondosebastiano584
      @almondosebastiano584 ปีที่แล้ว

      If were Sir Charles Chaplin,would be 9yo in that era,he born in 1889 and maybe saw this,I dunno lf remembered this💪💪💪💪💪

  • @Sparky5
    @Sparky5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My great grand dad told me about these films. He said even then people thought they were weird.

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not sure your great granddad would love back then but nonetheless I can believe that

  • @satuli
    @satuli 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I had no idea how the people of the 1900's knew so many special effects.:O

    • @Nestalgba92023
      @Nestalgba92023 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      chin kim *1890s.

    • @asquaredflyer
      @asquaredflyer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They invented them from nothing. Their imaginations truly ran rampant. And what marvelous results. Everything from then was built on until we see the CGI effects. Back then it was as real as life. Now it looks dated, but in context it was brilliant as was much of M. Méliès' work.

  • @thurn64
    @thurn64 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The guy sees 2 children pop out of the moon and his first reaction was to throw them out, clearly a enlightened individual

    • @SliceShorts2016
      @SliceShorts2016 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Was that the bite of 87 ??

  • @nicmccarthy816
    @nicmccarthy816 10 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Would the animation on the blackboard be the first use of hand drawn animation in film?

    • @TintedVisionMovies
      @TintedVisionMovies 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nic McCarthy possibly 🤔

    • @Randomguy2012vids
      @Randomguy2012vids 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      According to my cinema history class, someone else did that in 1862. I forget his name but his bosses had him make up a new production every week for years so as to never play the same thing for too long, until he had a nervous breakdown, threw all his work in a river and killed himself.

    • @JoeDonFan
      @JoeDonFan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was wondering that myself, but after looking at it carefully, I don't think it's true animation. The "Setting Moon" seems to be a circle drawn on a movable piece of board or paper, and the arms & legs on the dancing globe are sticks. Note the latitude and longitude lines on the globe change from the original when it starts to dance--the entire board was swapped out. But I know why you asked that--on a quick viewing, it looks animated.

    • @AlexThe1Menace
      @AlexThe1Menace 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I know it's an old comment but if I recall correctly, Pauvre Pierrot from 1892 would be the first one. Or at least older than this.

  • @freedomisntfree2089
    @freedomisntfree2089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful set actually. Great look back at history, it's a treasure

  • @doa_824
    @doa_824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We evolved so much look at us now and look back what we use to be 😢

  • @charlieg4258
    @charlieg4258 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Watching George Melies's legacy overwhelmed me.

  • @JamesIrwins78s
    @JamesIrwins78s 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Only eight years before I was born(1906)

    • @niptuck117
      @niptuck117 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You youngin'. I remember catching this in theaters.

    • @BlazeMaster
      @BlazeMaster 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      +ihavenonamenoname of course you were xD

    • @ELEcomments
      @ELEcomments 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i was born in the wrong generation.

    • @scrublord6476
      @scrublord6476 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was born during the cavemen years

    • @saxo9266
      @saxo9266 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      James Irwin shut up your 11

  • @ohmisskaimi
    @ohmisskaimi 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Honestly, it's so beautiful it makes me want to cry.

  • @ilovemakingcatgirlscry7574
    @ilovemakingcatgirlscry7574 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I'm interested in what kind of drugs that Astronomer was doing.

    • @mikedestructive
      @mikedestructive 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have yet to meet this moon. Would be nice.

    • @monus782
      @monus782 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Imagination, I'll bet

  • @groba50
    @groba50 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing special effects for 125 years ago !! Imagine what people thought about this back in this day. 🤯🤯

  • @nudge2626
    @nudge2626 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    incredibly imaginive

    • @batman4452
      @batman4452 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not really.. looks to be depicting Pythagerous, Aristotle, Carpanicus.. Do your research.. satanic moon worshipping deceivers.... there's no such thing as a globe earth.. it's satanic... Earth spins on 66.6 axis? lol Earth orbits around the sun at 66,600mph? Hahaha. 1969 (flip the 9's) is the only time we've been to the moon? Which is the hardest proof that we live on a ball (which has so many flaws, and holes, and can easily be proven to be a lie)... lmfao. This video is satanic religion... not original at all... It's in so many films, still to this day...

    • @eukarya_
      @eukarya_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@batman4452 I'm going to assume you are a troll

    • @batman4452
      @batman4452 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eukarya_ I'm going to assume you're a brainwashed sheep that is terrified to pop his bubble, terrified to take the red pill, terrified to know that everything he knew was a lie... I've been at that stage, you doubt, you're scared, it's terrifying, but you learn to be enlightened, seeing the world as fools is horrible, seeing that the world is ran by satanic evil is horrible... but just ignore the FACTS I stated, don't do the research, call me a troll, and continue being deceived, like you want to.

    • @eukarya_
      @eukarya_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@batman4452 You haven't given any facts at all, you just accused the scientific truths of being a lie and the Moon landing to be false but you haven't pointed out why our scientific models are flawed and haven't provided any proof of how they were faked.
      In fact you seem like a troll mocking on conspiracy theorists.
      Call me a sheeple or whatever you fancy, I'll stand by the science that has given us all this advancements in life quality, such as the wi-fi we're using to communicate.

    • @batman4452
      @batman4452 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eukarya_ Their are some theories, and facts in my post... but pretend like their aren't. The numbers are facts, but you see nothing peculiar about them lol.

  • @keithdunwoody1302
    @keithdunwoody1302 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The quality is excellent. Thanks for posting.

  • @ruok3351
    @ruok3351 7 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    I was born in the wrong genereation

    • @banananutduckbread1279
      @banananutduckbread1279 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As was I.

    • @jellemaarten2145
      @jellemaarten2145 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That generation died in WW I

    • @luanluansinho8303
      @luanluansinho8303 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ruok no, u dont.

    • @dyeus4464
      @dyeus4464 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      No, you are not. Make this your generation. Make other generations envy your generation.

    • @jodesu5094
      @jodesu5094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol you really wanna meet jack the ripper don't you?

  • @andrewturvill7145
    @andrewturvill7145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This and the music envokes something nostalgic and wonderul in me. Sad but uplifting all at once

  • @Neckromorph
    @Neckromorph 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can't get over that he actually fed that kid to the moon.

    • @toonbat
      @toonbat 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Moon's gotta eat.

    • @meridaskywalker7816
      @meridaskywalker7816 ปีที่แล้ว

      He sent them back to where they came from

  • @satyakichakrabarti5720
    @satyakichakrabarti5720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow....childhood nostalgia!!!!!! watched this movie when it was released with my friend Adalf

    • @AndyForelli1988
      @AndyForelli1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bruh

    • @elias7748
      @elias7748 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adolf? Did he happen to be 9 years old whe this was published in the theaters?

    • @satyakichakrabarti5720
      @satyakichakrabarti5720 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elias7748 yes😊😊

    • @bottle3124
      @bottle3124 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elias7748 I’m a Jewish Israeli and I hate Israel not the Jews but Israel sucks ass everyone is so fucking annoying

  • @rainmaker690
    @rainmaker690 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This was fun, cute, and weird to watch!

  • @VinetusYT
    @VinetusYT 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Only 1898 kids will remember this banger 🔥

  • @allseriousness
    @allseriousness 7 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    more appropriate with the benny hill theme

    • @KISSFanDan1995
      @KISSFanDan1995 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You sir, are a legend!

    • @jahrowdy
      @jahrowdy 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/ZnHmskwqCCQ/w-d-xo.html

    • @83rickyspanish51
      @83rickyspanish51 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or the song titled "hey moon " by John Maus

  • @ErlindaOsila
    @ErlindaOsila 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    In the film, including a Parody By Cinderella ((Cinderella (Film, 1950) Titular Character, Fictional Character and Main Protagonist))) an astronomer ((((((Portrayed by ((Cinderella (Film, 1950) Titular Character, Fictional Character and Main Protagonist)))))))))) is studying at his desk in an observatory. The devil appears and also Lady Termaine and Her Evil Stepsisters, Anastasia Termaine and Drizella Termaine then a Fairy Godmother ((Cinderella (Film, 1950) Fictional Character)) appears and makes the devil, Lady Termaine and Her Evil Stepsisters, Anastasia Termaine and Drizella Termaine and herself vanish. The astronomer draws a globe on a blackboard which comes to life and starts to move on the blackboard. The astronomer then looks through a small telescope.
    The moon appears as a large face ((((((((Portrayed by Lucifer The Cat ((Cinderella (Film, 1950) Fictional Character and Reccuring Antagonist))))))))) and eats the astronomer's telescope. Children of Lady Termaine and Her Evil Stepsisters, Anastasia Termaine and Drizella Termaine tumble from its mouth. Then the moon is back in the sky. The astronomer stands on a table, which disappears and he falls down.
    The moon becomes a crescent. A spirit, in the form of a Egyptian Mythogical Godess Isis (Egyptian Cat Godess of Fertility) appears from it. The astronomer chases her, but she eludes him. Now another figure, including Egyptian Moon Godess stands in the crescent of the moon, before reclining into its C shape and Attacking a Large Statue of A 16Th Century Royal French Army Soldier Portrayed by a Rat A.K.A Rats (((((((((((((((Portrayed by Gus and Jaq (Cinderella (Film, 1950) Fictional Characters and Reccuring Protagonists))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
    The moon appears as a large face again, and the astronomer Killed, Cannibly Killed, Disremembered, Killed, Cannibly Killed, Disrember, Cannibly Disrember and Viciously Killed, Vicioisly Cannibly Killed, Viciously Disrember and Vicioisly Cannibly Disrembered into its mouth and a Fairy Godmother ((Cinderella (Film, 1950) Fictional Character)), Lady Termaine and Her Evil Stepsisters, Anastasia Termaine and Drizella Termaine and the devil appear again. The astronomer ((((((Portrayed by ((Cinderella (Film, 1950) Titular Character, Fictional Character and Main Protagonist)))))))))) reappears sitting asleep in her chair.
    At 0:00 and Later 3:29

  • @rosariomontejanolanderos343
    @rosariomontejanolanderos343 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So peaceful music

  • @ylst8874
    @ylst8874 ปีที่แล้ว

    The surprising thing is that just after cinema invention , they did visual effects. Incredible !

  • @randomstuffguy8129
    @randomstuffguy8129 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is pretty good for 1898

  • @HisRoyalMajestyKingofWeedshire
    @HisRoyalMajestyKingofWeedshire 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That wizard took some of the good stuff.
    Also, I had a hysterically fun time imagining the dialogue.

  • @lsdmadman
    @lsdmadman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    i'd rather see five minutes of this stuff than the whole Star Wars circus

    • @teamkillmonger445
      @teamkillmonger445 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I would have to agree with you. Can't see how people liked that movie.

    • @imreadydoctor
      @imreadydoctor 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Man, the very first Star Wars movie was absolute gold.

    • @batman4452
      @batman4452 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Perfect example of a pretentious douche. Empire Strikes Back is arguably in the top 10 films ever made. This shouldn't be in the top 500.. and I love early silent films.

    • @humanmusic6409
      @humanmusic6409 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Harry Warburg It's time travel!

    • @zarathustra3830
      @zarathustra3830 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Calling someone a "pretentious douche" in such an arbitrary context makes you one by default. Some Star Wars movies might be in your 10 favourite films but not even close to a top 100. Hundreds of films have brought more to cinema and art than any Star Wars.

  • @bldcrippledyuth
    @bldcrippledyuth 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    why did they have to pick this score like someone is dying in the ending scene of a coming of age film about college. two kids fell in love one started hard drugs and lost them self and the other died trying to safe their life. what is this score y'all its giving me the most emotional mental interpretation of a george melies film I could ever have it is like I am watching my dad in the past watch this over a projector with a flash light in a blanket fort and in my dimension he has just died

  • @MrSunflowersongs
    @MrSunflowersongs 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I really like it!

  • @vegastrina
    @vegastrina 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dream? More like nightmare. That guy was sure having a bad day. Looks to me like his work was consuming him...so invested that his dreams were tormented.
    :(
    I still enjoyed it none-the-less. Maybe his next dream will be more cheerful when he has finally completed all his hard work.
    :)

  • @marjoseph2311
    @marjoseph2311 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Only 1890s kids will remember this

  • @whereucomingfrom5663
    @whereucomingfrom5663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This film was ahead of its time

  • @PkmariO64
    @PkmariO64 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:57 - I didn’t realize that this film had jumpscares.

    • @poweroffriendship2.0
      @poweroffriendship2.0 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Before Stephen King's Carrie did the first "legendary jumpscare", Astronomer's Dream is the first.

    • @PkmariO64
      @PkmariO64 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mr. Friendship - Hey, wait a minute... I’ve seen your comments on other videos. Nice to see you here.

  • @HorrorPunksUnite
    @HorrorPunksUnite 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So glad to find these gems

  • @Suport7000
    @Suport7000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    0:58 Thomas the Tank Engine

  • @r.jclark4641
    @r.jclark4641 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That’s it, horror movies peaked in the 1890s. No modern film could possibly hope to inspire this level of dread and bafflement, lol.

  • @alexsandrolopes9214
    @alexsandrolopes9214 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And I thought the moon in Majora's Mask was scary. Maybe that's where Nintendo got the inspiration.

  • @CannonKnight
    @CannonKnight 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I didn't know filmmaking was a commercial entity in 1898. I learned something. Weed through the trash, and sometimes the Internet pleasantly surprises you.

  • @a.m-j2474
    @a.m-j2474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    TH-camrs Cutting their Videos are so annoying.
    George Méliès: *hold my mute wizard beer*

  • @saofan2263
    @saofan2263 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Me and my friend were watching this because we were on a old movie marathon, after the moon poped out of nowhere my friends said " we just got jump scared by the moon!"

  • @Lila_Noxi
    @Lila_Noxi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Harry Potter's prequel

    • @TheEinstein78
      @TheEinstein78 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haha! Nice!

    • @freshavocado6528
      @freshavocado6528 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lily Dey XD

    • @BlazeMaster
      @BlazeMaster 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      actually prequel it preceded it by some 100 years...and it's still better than Harry Potter too.

    • @poweroffriendship2.0
      @poweroffriendship2.0 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      More like a prequel. That's when Dombledorf is in the beginning of his wizard duty.

    • @TheGingiGamer
      @TheGingiGamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BlazeMaster It's ok to have a wrong opinion

  • @tsvndere
    @tsvndere 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They watched this film at the cinema paying, we on 2018 watch on youtube gratis lol