Excursion to the Moon

1908 French film

Excursion dans la lune

Directed by| Segundo de Chomón
Based on| A Trip to the Moon
by Georges Méliès
Produced by| Ferdinand Zecca

Production
company

Pathé Frères

Release date

* 1908 (1908)

Running time

| 180 meters[1]
Country| France
Language| Silent

Excursion to the Moon (French: Excursion dans la lune) is a 1908 French silent trick film directed by Segundo de Chomón. The production was supervised by Ferdinand Zecca, designed by V. Lorant-Heilbronn, and released by Pathé Frères.[1] The film is an unauthorized remake, and an almost shot-by-shot copy, of Georges Méliès's 1902 film A Trip to the Moon.[2]

The film follows Méliès's scenario closely and includes many of its features, with some variations: for example, the Selenites are not vulnerable to umbrellas, but rather appear and disappear at will; the capsule lands inside the Man in the Moon's open mouth rather than hitting its eye; and the Selenite who returns to Earth is a "dancing moon-maiden" who is betrothed at the end of the film to one of the astronomers.[2] This film has occasionally been misidentified as a work by Méliès.[3]

Of the film's 180 meters, 72 were colorized[1] using a Pathé stencil process.[2]

Excursion dans la lune (1908)

## References

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1. ^ a b c Centre d'études foréziennes (2000), Catalogue des films projetés à Saint-Étienne avant la première guerre mondiale, Université de Saint-Etienne, p. 103, ISBN 2862721824
2. ^ a b c Solomon, Matthew (2011), "Introduction", in Solomon, Matthew (ed.), Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon, Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 12–13, ISBN 9781438435817
3. ^ Méliès, Georges (2010), Georges Méliès: Encore (DVD; short film collection), Los Angeles: Flicker Alley, ISBN 978-1893967564

## External links

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* Excursion to the Moon at IMDb

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Films directed by Segundo de Chomón

* Descente du Mont Serrat (1901)
* Loie Fuller (1902)
* Choque de trenes (1902)
* Danse des Ouléd-Naïd (1902)
* Montserrat (1902)
* Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza (1903)
* Gulliver en el país de los Gigantes (1903)
* Barcelone, Le parc au crépuscule (1904)
* Ah! La barbe (1905)
* Satan s'amuse (1907)
* La Maison ensorcelée (1908)
* Hôtel électrique (1908)
* Excursion dans la lune (1908)
* Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves (1909)

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