Open Rehearsal: The Court Theatre Blog
July 20, 2009
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Forty years ago, an American man landed on the moon. But the French got there way before us:
That’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune, created in 1902 by Georges Méliès. It’s remarkable to see how film in the early century was produced in such a theatrical, proscenium-conscious paradigm. Méliès himself was a former stage magician at the Theatre Robert-Houdin in Paris.
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