A Trip to the Moon
06-25-04 | 12:50 PM
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A Trip to the Moon
Hi, i have a problem with the B/W film A Trip to the Moon directed by Melies.
I've seen it from the Region 1 Version of "The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913", it's around 12 minutes long, and the last scene is the spaceship dragged by the steamboat on the seat.
Then i checked in this fimesite http://www.filmsite.org/voya.html, the last phrase describes the story as "The scientists are greeted by a general ovation/grand march for their happy return and decorated as heroes" which i've not found.
Also i checked it the "Around World in 80 Days" dvd, this short film is included as a little feature, it's the same length as what i saw before, so without the "march" and "decoration" part.
So does that mean the region 1 version of "a trip to the moon" is not complete?
Thanks for you help.
I've seen it from the Region 1 Version of "The Movies Begin - A Treasury of Early Cinema, 1894-1913", it's around 12 minutes long, and the last scene is the spaceship dragged by the steamboat on the seat.
Then i checked in this fimesite http://www.filmsite.org/voya.html, the last phrase describes the story as "The scientists are greeted by a general ovation/grand march for their happy return and decorated as heroes" which i've not found.
Also i checked it the "Around World in 80 Days" dvd, this short film is included as a little feature, it's the same length as what i saw before, so without the "march" and "decoration" part.
So does that mean the region 1 version of "a trip to the moon" is not complete?
Thanks for you help.
06-25-04 | 01:13 PM
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There seem to be two versions of the film:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/A.../Esprit04.html
I'm not sure if that is the cause of the discrepancy but it sounds likely.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/A.../Esprit04.html
The cinema’s premier venture into science fiction was Melies’ THE ASTRONOMER’S DREAM (vt, LA LUNE A UN METRE) (1898). This remarkable film, for its time, depicted a single setting of an astronomer gazing into an ultra powerful telescope. Intercut with this scene are supposed visions of beings and landscapes on other planets. The scientist then falls asleep and dreams of a ‘man from the moon’ visiting him by sneaking into an open window. Frame by frame hand coloring was utilized here, as was done with select earlier productions. His fascination with heavenly bodies and imagined space travel continued. This led to two versions of LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (A TRIP TO THE MOON); the first being produced in 1900. Melies felt that more could be exploited with the material and produced a second - more elaborate - version. Following essentially the same storyline, copies of both versions exist. In production in May of 1902 and officially released in August of the same year, it is this second version of LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE that has proven to be the most important and best remembered of Melies’ works.
06-25-04 | 01:38 PM
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Maybe.
Thank you for your help.
Talk about 2 versions, i watched "the Great train robbery" recently and found on the imdb site 2 versions of this film, so i asked about it on the imdb forum, here is the thread.
I think that's interesting.
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Just watched a silent movie named the Great Train Robbery, but when i checked in the imdb, there is 2 entries with this name,
one made in 1903,http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000439/, the classical one directed by Porter
one made in 1904 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000487/maindetails
i read some reviews, the second one is said to be copying frame by frame from the first one.
So my question is how can i know which is the one i watched? Because there is no credits before or after the one i watched.
And here are the answers from a kind guy
by - sienel 2 days ago (Tue Jun 22 19:13:31) Ignore this User | Report Abuse
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How did you see the movie? More likely than not you saw Porter's 1903 original - that's the one that's found on all the early cinema DVD sets etc.
Ignore the IMDb's DVD listings for the Lubin's 1904 version. They're all wrong - they're meant for the 1903 movie - and I've just sent in a correction for them. You can also ignore the soon-to-be-deleted trivia item that states that the 1904 movie is the "first American film".
Thank you for your help.
Talk about 2 versions, i watched "the Great train robbery" recently and found on the imdb site 2 versions of this film, so i asked about it on the imdb forum, here is the thread.
I think that's interesting.
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Just watched a silent movie named the Great Train Robbery, but when i checked in the imdb, there is 2 entries with this name,
one made in 1903,http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000439/, the classical one directed by Porter
one made in 1904 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000487/maindetails
i read some reviews, the second one is said to be copying frame by frame from the first one.
So my question is how can i know which is the one i watched? Because there is no credits before or after the one i watched.
And here are the answers from a kind guy
by - sienel 2 days ago (Tue Jun 22 19:13:31) Ignore this User | Report Abuse
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How did you see the movie? More likely than not you saw Porter's 1903 original - that's the one that's found on all the early cinema DVD sets etc.
Ignore the IMDb's DVD listings for the Lubin's 1904 version. They're all wrong - they're meant for the 1903 movie - and I've just sent in a correction for them. You can also ignore the soon-to-be-deleted trivia item that states that the 1904 movie is the "first American film".
06-25-04 | 02:36 PM
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Try the Facets "Melies the Magician" disc. It does have the extended ending. The video transfer crops a bit too much from the edges of the frame, but there are a number of shorts not on the Kino disc.
Both the Kino and the "Around the World..." dvd use David Shepard's version, which is not as complete, but has the interesting narration, which apparently was done at some of the original showings, and it helps with some of the narrative that title cards would have explicated.
Both the Kino and the "Around the World..." dvd use David Shepard's version, which is not as complete, but has the interesting narration, which apparently was done at some of the original showings, and it helps with some of the narrative that title cards would have explicated.
