Le Voyage Dans la Lun ( A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902)

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la Lune), alternately Voyage to the Moon, is a 1902 French blackandwhite silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: Jules Verne s From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells The First Men in the Moon. The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his brother Gaston. The film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per second, which was the standard frame rate at the time the film was produced. It was