1902: Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon debuts in France at a lavish gray-carpet gala (as red hadn't been invented yet). It's arguably the earliest instance of science fiction ever committed to movie ...

Palo Alto, CA – The Palo Alto International Film Festival (PAIFF 9/29-10/02 ) is thrilled to announce that it will present the northern California premiere of Georges Méliès’ masterpiece, “A Trip to ...

Georges Méliès was a visionary director and illusionist who pioneered groundbreaking cinematic techniques that still influence film today. Méliès reverse-engineered a projection machine into a camera, ...

NASA's Apollo astronauts may have first put bootprints on the moon in 1969, but moviegoers made the round trip long before that — in fact, way back in 1902. Thanks to innovative French filmmaker ...

Le Voyage dans la Lune, believed to have been lost for decades, is to be screened at Cannes in colour 109 years after its first release A turn-of-the-century film, famed for its then innovative ...

Georges Méliès’ 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon will screen in hand-painted color at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening night. The fully restored version, 109 years old, was considered lost until ...

Who was Georges Méliès and why is he honoured with a Google Doodle? Georges Méliès was a film director, actor, set designer, illusionist, toymaker and costume designer. He was born December 8, 1861, ...

Here's why the film making genius from Paris is being celebrated with a Google Doodle GEORGES Méliès is a trailblazing French illusionist and film director who paved the way for film makers to ...