The first Science fiction film -A Trip to the Moon (1902) - General

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6pZBYKb2c[/media] This year at college I am in a class that compares science fiction in films to comparable science in the real world. Today in class we watched what I am told was the first science fiction film to be presented to large audiences. Of course it was originally silent with a narrator filling in the dialogue within the theater. I thought it was hilarious how ridiculous their ideas about space travel were at the time, but then again who knows how people will look at our films in a hundred years.

do you guys get to wacth Star Wars in Classs .?

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;37432798]do you guys get to wacth Star Wars in Classs .?[/QUOTE] We are focusing on biology, Last week we watched Jurassic Park. Other movies I know we are watching include: Contagion, GATTACA, Rise of the planet of the apes, I am legend, and a few other lesser know films.

This movie was used in Hugo. I never realized it was an actual movie.

pff .. mustve been an indie film

I remember seeing this on the HBO mini series "From the Earth to the Moon". Wasn't the guy who made this cheated out of a fortune cause Edison stole a reel and copied it and showed it in the U.S?

i dont think that i could enjoy this, while knowing that 99% of actors are dead.

Amazing how we landed on the moon only 67 years after this film was made. Meaning if you were 10 years old when you saw this film, You would have witness the actual moon landing at age 77.

weird, i just watched this today in my film criticism class

All I can think of is Hugo

[QUOTE=imptastick;37432664][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6pZBYKb2c[/media] This year at college I am in a class that compares science fiction in films to comparable science in the real world. Today in class we watched what I am told was the first science fiction film to be presented to large audiences. Of course it was originally silent with a narrator filling in the dialogue within the theater. I thought it was hilarious how ridiculous their ideas about space travel were at the time, but then again who knows how people will look at our films in a hundred years.[/QUOTE] Where did the audio come from? As far as I can tell through reading around it was intended to be a silent film. I might be wrong though

[QUOTE=Maloof?;37434192]Where did the audio come from? As far as I can tell through reading around it was intended to be a silent film. I might be wrong though[/QUOTE] I am not sure, our professor said that there would be a narrator in the theater to explain what is happening, I guess that is what it is supposed to be. Of course my professor's degree is in biology not film so I do not know if that is accurate.

[QUOTE=cucumber;37433727]i dont think that i could enjoy this, while knowing that 99% of actors are dead.[/QUOTE] you can't enjoy films that show actors who are now dead? what about laurel & hardy, marx brothers or most films of the 40s, 50s, 60s. Most of the actors are dead.

I remember watching this film in the first year of University. Can't remember specifically but I believe the director was a french illusionist or something... funny film though. Not as fun as trying to watch the first 30 minutes of "Birth of a nation"... dunno how anyone could watch the whole damn thing.

[QUOTE=BlackBirdNL;37433099]This movie was used in Hugo. I never realized it was an actual movie.[/QUOTE] Nowadays I find it incredibly hard to watch new movies since they never really interest me but there was something about that movie that pulled me in. Hugo was by far one of the best movies that I have seen in recent years.

[QUOTE=slamex;37434495]I remember watching this film in the first year of University. Can't remember specifically but I believe the director was a french illusionist or something... funny film though. Not as fun as trying to watch the first 30 minutes of "Birth of a nation"... dunno how anyone could watch the whole damn thing.[/QUOTE] What's so bad about Birth of a Nation? It's a great film no matter it's age.

[QUOTE=ElectroMagnet;37442114]What's so bad about Birth of a Nation? It's a great film no matter it's age.[/QUOTE] Well, the film appearently glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and makes African Americans look like total idiots. Well made film and historical significance aside, it may not be in everyone's ability to withstand that.

Wasn't this based off of a Jules Verne novel? I actually saw this for free on Sci-Fi's website (before they became SyFy, *cringe*) and I remember reading it was based off of his novel.

I wish that movies were still sort of like this:vague,simple,comical and amusing.

[QUOTE=ElectroMagnet;37442114]What's so bad about Birth of a Nation? It's a great film no matter it's age.[/QUOTE] It's a great film technically, and it certainly manages to "glorify" the south. But it's a terrible movie because of the themes it pushes through.

[QUOTE=Kodeac;37433223]pff .. mustve been an indie film[/QUOTE] I almost choked on my noodles pleas egod damn dont do that

While the idea is silly, I like the way silent films are presented - you have no sound to work with, so a lot more goes into the scenery and the movement of the actors - look at the way the moon people move and kind of dance, it's mysterious and magical. The whole film also represents the period incredibly well - optimism and curiosity; and overall it appears to be a tribute to the industrialization.