Six brave astronauts travel in a space capsule from the Earth to the Moon. The first science-fiction movie in history was the work of the imagination of the French director and magician Georges Méliès (1861-1938), who inspired from the works: From the Earth to the Moon (1865), by Jules Verne, and First Men in the Moon (1901), by H. G. Wells. It is a 14-minute short film made with the astronomical budget, for the time, of 10 thousand Francs, and entailed, no less, to be the 400th film by the French filmmaker, and opened the world of cinema to a new door to tell fantastic and science-fiction stories through the use of tricks and special effects.

DIRECTOR:

Georges Méliès