This is a very curious film made in 1902, directed by Georges Méliès. It begins with a meeting of astronomers whose leader proposes they go to the moon. Six of the astronomers agree to go on this journey and they go about building a space capsule in the shape of a bullet as well as a cannon to shoot the capsule from. As they space capsule approaches the moon the "Man in the Moon" watches them and they capsule hits him in the eye. Soon after the astronomers discover a cave filled with gigantic mushrooms, not long after an alien race (Selenites) appears in the cave and one of the astronomers destroys it with his umbrella, more Selenites appear at this point and the astronomers are taken prisoner by the Selenites. In the throne room of the Selenites one of the astronomers picks up the leader Selenite and throws him to the ground, destroying him, afterwards the astronomers escape back to their capsule and flee the moon, arriving safely back on earth to be praised as heroes. I give this short film a personal score of 4/5.
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