Post by Capo on Feb 2, 2007 1:28:21 GMT
Le voyage dans la lune
A Trip to the Moon
Georges Méliès 1902 France
Scientists gather and are sent to the moon for exploration. When there, they are abducted by aliens.
Probably Méliès' most famous film. It expands upon the one-shot experimental films and shows a fuller confidence in ability at storytelling. He's connecting a series of spectacular images here into some kind of vaguely coherent narrative (a lot more coherent than his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). Set design is impressive and if it is interesting to see the "cinema of attractions" turning towards a cinema of narrative, it is also of worth to compare Méliès's storytelling to that of, say, Griffith, who, some ten years later, had turned cinematic storytelling from presentation to manipulation, less to do with self-contained spectacle in shots (as seen here with the visual overload of information gone into every single shot - it's almost like a detailed and living comic strip) than moralistic evocation of meaning.
A Trip to the Moon
Georges Méliès 1902 France
Scientists gather and are sent to the moon for exploration. When there, they are abducted by aliens.
Probably Méliès' most famous film. It expands upon the one-shot experimental films and shows a fuller confidence in ability at storytelling. He's connecting a series of spectacular images here into some kind of vaguely coherent narrative (a lot more coherent than his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). Set design is impressive and if it is interesting to see the "cinema of attractions" turning towards a cinema of narrative, it is also of worth to compare Méliès's storytelling to that of, say, Griffith, who, some ten years later, had turned cinematic storytelling from presentation to manipulation, less to do with self-contained spectacle in shots (as seen here with the visual overload of information gone into every single shot - it's almost like a detailed and living comic strip) than moralistic evocation of meaning.