From the Earth to the Moon
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From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post–American Civil War society of weapons enthusias
Cover of an early English translation
The projectile, as pictured in an engraving from the 1872 Illustrated Edition
The firing of the Columbiad
A Trip to the Moon
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A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed and produced by Georges Méliès. Inspired by the Jules Verne novel From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel A
From the Earth to the Moon
…mentioned that Cavor is, "not a reader of fiction". The novel (along with Wells' The First Men in the Moon) inspired the first science fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, made in 1902 by Georges Méliès; in 1958, another film adaptation of the story was released, titled From the Earth to the Moon and in 1967 became the…
The landing on the eye of the Moon, the film's most iconic scene
Georges Méliès (n.d., c. 1890; approx. age 28)
Stereoscope card showing a scene from Jacques Offenbach's Le voyage dans la lune.
Méliès (at left) in the studio where A Trip to the Moon was filmed.