Image Credit: Georges Méliès, Wikipedia
Explanation: What would it be like to visit the Moon? The first major
fictional cinematic film exploring this enduring transcultural fantasy was
titled Le voyage dans
la lune (A Trip to the Moon) and made in 1902, becoming one of the most popular movies of the early years
of the twentieth century. The silent film starred the filmmaker Georges Melies
himself and portrayed a club
of astronomers voyaging to the Moon and back. Pictured
above is a frame from the movie that has become an enduring icon for both
film and space. Alluding to a bullseye trajectory,
the Man in the Moon
is caricatured as being struck by the human-built
spaceship. The entire 14-minute film is now freely available. Visiting the
Moon remained a very
popular topic even 67 years later in 1969 when humans first made an actual voyage.
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