The Movie: A Trip to the Moon (1902)
What Is
It?: Georges Méliès’s
magic trick bag is bottomless in one of the first and most timeless explosions
of cinematic special effects. There is not a frame of this tale of wizard
scientists who crash into the moon’s eye and meet all manner of weird creatures
that isn’t enchanting and iconic.
Why Today?:
On this day in 1969, people land on the moon.
