Useless Movie Trivia For
Trip To The Moon
Trivia
After finishing work on the film, Georges Méliès intended to release it in America and thereby make lots of money. Unfortunately, Thomas A. Edison's film technicians had already secretly made copies of the film, which was showed across the USA within weeks. Melies never made any money from the film's American showings, and went broke several years later (while Edison made a fortune on the film.)
One of the earliest known science fiction films. A segment near the end was animated, making this one of the first animated films, too.
In 2002, a print of the film was discovered in a barn in France. It was amazing in that not only is it the most complete cut of the film, but it was entirely hand-colored. The film was restored and premiered at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival the following year.
American rock band Smashing Pumpkins used this film as inspiration for their award winning music video "Tonight Tonight". The ship which sails in at the end of the music video is named Méliès after this films director Georges Méliès.
Goofs
After the astronomers have climbed out of the shell on landing on the Moon and before they see the Earth rise, the shell disappears.
The capsule crashes in an inland region of the moon. Yet when the astronauts run to escape the inhabitants of the moon, it's on the edge of the moon.
While on the moon, the astronomers watch the Earth rise over the horizon. To a person on the moon, the Earth never moves. It does not rise or set.