As friends and family will attest, I am a big Science Fiction fan. And so it was with great excitement that we recently watched the first Sci-Fi film of all time, A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès (1902). Despite the fact that the movie has no sound and is only 14 minutes in length, it has all the elements of a great sci fi movie. A trip to space? Check. Adventurous special effects? Check. Aliens? Check.A Trip to the Moon tells the story of a group of scientists (although they looked more like wizards than astronomers) who plan a splendid trip into outer space. They pile into a rocket and blast off, only to crash land on the face of the moon (directly into the Man of the Moon's eye, to be exact). Once on the moon they encounter an alien race of beings called Selenites and are forced to flee.
Do our intrepid explorers escape the evil clutches of the Selenites? Will they ever see the earth again? For the answers to these questions, and more, you'll have to watch A Trip To the Moon for yourself.
