A trip to the moon directed by Georges Melies

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la Lune) is a 1902 French silent film.The screen's first science fiction story, was a 14 minute masterpiece (nearly one reel in length(about 825 feet)), created by imaginative French director and master magician Georges Melies (1861-1938) in his version of the Jules Verne story..This legendary movie showed us the various possibilities movie making has to offer.

Its unusual length, lavish production values, innovative special effects, and emphasis on storytelling were markedly influential on other film-makers and ultimately on the development of narrative film as a whole.

The film's style, like that of most of Méliès's other films, is deliberately theatrical. The stage set is highly stylised, recalling the traditions of the 19th-century stage, and is filmed by a stationary camera, placed to evoke the perspective of an audience member sitting in a theatre