This isn't Méliès' recently discovered hand-tinted print. I hand-tinted it myself. "le Voyage dans la Lune" (1902) by the stage magician and movie pioneer Georges Méliès. The film is usually credited as the first science-fiction and fantasy movie. When his movie camera jammed while he was shooting a scene, Méliès discovered how to make his screen characters suddenly vanish, to the astonishment of his audience.
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I LOVE this movie. Only 15 min long, but it works quite well considering its age. What a shame Melies only thought that film is an enhancement of the stage amnd did not have the eye for a "scene" like later directors. I just would LOVE to see the hand-coloroued version they found some years ago. And if someone is reading this who has not seen it, go to www.archives.org where you can download this one and other gems from the silent era that have lost Copyright under US Law (or other stuff that is Open Source from Nosferatu to Night Of The Living Dead to Edison Recordings, old 78rpms to propaganda films like A is for Atom and Duck & Cover)
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