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Excursion to the Moon

19087 minFrance
Science fictionFantasyComedy

Synopsis

Astronomers travel to the Moon, encounter its inhabitants and return with an unexpected companion. Their capsule lands in the Moon's mouth, introducing a comic variation on a familiar imaginary voyage.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
6:49
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Segundo de Chomón · Public domain

DirectorsSegundo de Chomón

Historical context

Chomón closely reworked Méliès's A Trip to the Moon for Pathé without authorization. The resemblance has sometimes caused the film to be misidentified as Méliès's own work.

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