Une Voyage Dans Le Lune

Josh Bearman bio ↓ · September 14th, 2009 · filed under video

I’m going to guess that, like me, very few people have gotten far enough in the silent classic to realize that A Trip To The Moon features a battle sequence in which the parasol-toting, top hat-wearing Parisian astronauts fight off a tribe of fierce moon people! Also note the accurate prefiguring of the real lunar missions’ ocean splash downs. (In his novel, From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne also happened to have made some strangely accurate predictions about man’s first ascent to the Moon, such as that it would be Americans and that the vehicle would be launched form Florida. Why he would guess such a thing in 1865 is anyone’s guess.)

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Joshuah Bearman has written about CIA missions, aspiring Fabios, and the world's greatest Pac Man player. Yes, it was he who blew the lid off the story of the great rodent disaster of 2003, when giant gerbils invaded inland China. Joshuah has written for Harpers, McSweeneys, Wired, Rolling Stone, and contributes to This American Life. More from this author →

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