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Excursion to the Moon
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'Excursion to the Moon' is a 1908 French silent film directed by Segundo de Chomn. The production was supervised by Ferdinand Zecca, designed by V. Lorant-Heilbronn, and released by Path Frres. The film is an unauthorized remake, and an almost shot-by-shot copy, of Georges Mlis's 1902 film 'A Trip to the Moon'.
The film follows Mlis's scenario closely and includes many of its features, with some variations: for example, the Selenites are not vulnerable to umbrellas, but rather appear and disappear at will; the capsule lands inside the Man in the Moon's open mouth rather than hitting its eye; and the Selenite who returns to Earth is a "dancing moon-maiden" who is betrothed at the end of the film to one of the astronomers. This film has occasionally been misidentified as a work by Mlis.
Of the film's 180 meters, 72 were colorized using a Path stencil process.
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