Le Voyage dans la lune

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Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges MÁEEE©liÁEEE¨s (1902)

Date : 1902
Cast : Georges MÁEEE©liÁEEE¨s as Professor Barbenfouillis.



MÁEEE©liÁEEE¨s, a pioneering French film-maker and magician now generally regarded as the first person to recognize the potential of narrative film,
His extensive involvement in all of his films as director, producer, writer, designer, technician, publicist, editor, and often actor makes him one of the first cinematic auteurs.

Speaking about his work late in life, MÁEEE©liÁEEE¨s commented: "culty in realising my own ideas forced me to sometimes play the leading role in my films
...

I was a star without knowing I was one, since the term did not yet exist."

All told, MÁEEE©liÁEEE¨s took an acting role in at least 300 of his 520 films.


Bleuette Bernon as Phoebe (mythology) (the woman on the crescent moon).

MÁEEE©liÁEEE¨s discovered Bernon in the 1890s, when she was performing as a singer at the cabaret L'Enfer.

She also appeared in his 1899 adaption of Cinderella.


FranÁEEE§ois Lallement as the officer of the marines.

Lallement was one of the salaried camera operators for the Star Film Company.

Henri Delannoy as the captain of the rocket

Jules-EugÁEEE¨ne Legris as the parade leader.

Legris was a magician who performed at MÁEEE©liÁEEE¨s's theater of stage illusions, the ThÁEEE©ÁEEE¢tre Robert-Houdin in Paris.


Victor AndrÁEEE©, Delpierre, Farjaux, Kelm, and Brunnet as the astronomers.

AndrÁEEE© worked at the :fr:ThÁEEE©ÁEEE¢tre de Cluny; the others were singers in French music halls.
: " Moon (the woman in a crescent,) was Bleuette Bernon, music hall singer, the Stars were ballet girls, from theatre du ChÁEEE¢telet EEEand the men (principal ones) Victor AndrÁEEE©, of Cluny theatre, Delpierre, Farjaux EEEKelm EEEBrunnet, music-hall singers, and myself EEEthe SÁEEE©lenites were acrobats from Folies BergÁEEE¨re."?ÁEEE¢tre du ChÁEEE¢telet as stars

Acrobats of the Folies BergÁEEE¨re as Selenites


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