Excursion to the Moon (French: Excursion dans la Lune ) is a 1908 film directed by    • Segundo de Chomón   for Pathé Frères . It is, as is clear from the title, a remake of the very famous    • Viaggio sulla Luna (1902) Georges Méliès  , the film that Georges Méliès had made six years earlier and which still remained very popular. But while Méliès had handpainted his film, the 180 meters of film in Excursion dans la Lune were colorized, by the director himself, with the à pouchoir system, invented by De Chomón and developed and patented by Pathé.

Chapters
00:00 Titles
00:08 Let's Go to the Moon
00:40 The cannon
01:30 The projectile rocket
02:05 The launch pad
02:33 All aboard
03:22 In the mouth of the moon
03:40 A night on the moon
04:04 The Lunar Forest
04:20 In the court of the Selenids
05:45 Escape
05:58 The return of the explorers

Synopsis . (00:08) On a full moon night, a magicianastrologer gathers some gentlemen to explain to them his plan to go to the moon. The magician takes them on a tour of the workshops: (00:40) the cannon that will shoot them to the satellite, (01:30) the rocket in which they will travel, (02:05) the launch pad. (02:33) The day of departure having arrived, the explorers take their places in the spacecraft and are shot into the mouth of the moon (03:22).
(03:40) Once on the moon, the explorers camp outdoors to sleep, but are surprised by a snowfall. (04:04) The next morning they begin exploring the satellite and soon run into the moon's inhabitants, the Selenids, who lead them to their king.
(04:04) At his majesty's court, the earthlings are well received; lunar dancers enter and dance in honor of the aliens, but one of them, infatuated with the first dancer, takes her by the hand and they run away together, arousing the wrath of the ruler and his courtiers.
(05:45) The terresrts, pursued, manage to board their rocket, which, falling from the moon to Earth, ends up falling right into the garden where the other scientists are waiting to celebrate them (05:58).

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