![]() ![]() The film features the overtly theatrical style for which Méliès became famous. Its ensemble cast of French theatrical performers is led by Méliès himself as the main character Professor Barbenfouillis. ![]() Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and its 1870 sequel Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. ![]() A Trip to the Moon ( French: Le Voyage dans la Lune) is a 1902 French adventure short film directed by Georges Méliès. ![]()
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