The moon of Verne and Méliès

Today, on a full moon, we pay tribute to two great French visionaries, one inspired by the other and the dream of landing on the moon. Jules Verne and Georges Méliès. The first, an adventure writer and visionary of future progress, enjoyed success during his lifetime. And the second, an illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments at the dawn of cinematography. The common thread between the work of one and the other is the novel From the Earth to the Moon written by Verne in 1865, which inspired Méliès to film Voyage to the Moon in 1902, one of the most influential films of science fiction cinema.

01. La Pêche - Ouverture A Great Expedition (Journey through the impossible, 2016)
02. La Pêche - The Factory The Foundry (Journey through the impossible, 2016)
03. Through the abysses of imagination I, Jules Verne
04. Offenbach - Voyage dans la Lune (1875) Ballet des flocons des neige, Introduction
05. Offenbach - Voyage dans la Lune (1875) Ballet des flocons des neige, Les hirondelles bleues
06. Air - Moon fever (Le voyage dans la Lune, 2012)
07. History of movie and Georges MélièsHugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)
08. Offenbach - Voyage dans la Lune (1875) Ballet des flocons des neige, Le bonhomme de neige
09. Offenbach - Voyage dans la Lune (1875) Ballet des flocons des neige, Les flocons animés
10. The fascination of adventure II, Jules Verne
11. Offenbach - Voyage dans la Lune (1875) Ballet des flocons des neige, Overture
12. Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon, chapter 24
13. Voyage dans la Lune (Operetta Grand Theatre de Geneve, 1985), Jacques Offenbach
14. Music for Excursion on the Moon by Segundo de Chomón
15. Analysis of the narrative structure of Journey to the moon of Georges Méliès
16. Extraordinary journeys: The songs of Jules Verne and Aristide Hignard. Andres Jimenez (bass-baritone), Laurence Verna (piano).
17. Reading of an excerpt from El señor Re-Sostenido y la señorita Mi-Bemol (Jules Vernes, 1893)