A Trip to the Moon1902

1902-la idha paathirundha enna feel pannirupen nu yosikka mudiyala. No dialogue just visuals and music and somehow they made a whole journey to the moon feel this magical. The transitions the sets the drawings the practical effects and that rocket hitting the moon’s eye… literally made me sit there and think how da they even imagined this. The craziest part is they had never been to the moon. There were no real space photographs no CGI no modern technology. Just imagination books theatre magic and cinema. And knowing that some versions were actually hand coloured frame by frame makes it even more insane. Today it looks charming and sometimes funny but for someone watching this in 1902 this must have felt like cinema had just discovered magic. A film made when cinema was still learning how to move and Méliès was already making it dream.