This is a silent film. According to the film playing method at the time, the projectionist played the copy to the audience while explaining the picture. The story is that some gentlemen in the Academy of Sciences plan to explore the moon. The army loaded these gentlemen into cannonballs and fired them at the moon. Gentlemen on the moon saw the earth rising, some strange views of the solar system. They saw a hole in the ground, so they went down and found that there was another world underground. They were captured by the lunar men, escaped, and entered the cannonball, which fell off the cliffs of the moon, fell to the earth, and fell to the bottom of the sea. The gentlemen are back on Earth with a warm welcome.
The filming method of this film is staged. That is, the actors perform the stage play in front of the camera, and the camera records their performance.
Unlike the Lumiere brothers, Méliès used editing. The Lumiere Brothers films are unedited, one shot to the end. When Méliès arrived, he began to change sets, performing different plots in front of different sets, and then linking these plots together according to the chronological order of the story. This method came to be known as montage.
The length of "Journey to the Moon" I collected is 11 minutes and 37 seconds, and there are only 19 shots in total. Each shot has the characteristics of the stage set.
According to the introduction of "World Film History", Méliès is the founder of film feature films. From him, people discovered the difference between film writing and text writing. This difference makes cinema a seventh art.
View more about A Trip to the Moon reviews
