Porter would make the mistake of adopting the technique for 'Life of an American Fireman', which was reedited later, leading many to believe it was a landmark in narrative editing. The following shot is a temporal replay of that action from a different perspective. He often used moving props, too, but this is one of the few that I've seen where the prop is pulled towards the camera-creating the famous rocket kissing the moon's eye gag. I easily forget it's all done within a cramped studio. Additionally, his set designs were the best of the day. MГ©liГЁs used the stop-motion (or substitution-splice) effect and arising smoke for explosive characters in many of his films-same with superimpositions, animated miniatures and placing a fish tank in front of the camera. Wells, as well as Adolphe Dennery's adaptation of those pieces, the story is about a gang of astronomers, who, launched from a cannon onto the Moon, encounter explosive aliens (or 'Selenites', as MГ©liГЁs called them). Influenced by the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wacky humor and trick shots help, but that's in the rest of his oeuvre, too. It's better than Georges MГ©liГЁs's other surviving pictures because it has a more developed story-without the tableau vivant style becoming as boring as it usually does. I've seen thousands of early short movies and have commented on some of the most interesting cases, but this one is more amusing and imaginative than the rest (although a rather sinister reflection of colonialism may be read into the explorers treatment of the Moon's natives). 'A Trip to the Moon' is justly the most popular early film. Reviewed by Cineanalyst 10 / 10 Narrative Development: Magic

They have to find a way to get out of their alien predicament to get back home safely.

They find that much about the moon is wonderful and fantastical, but also that much is not what they would have liked to encounter as it is life threatening. Hitting the moon in the eye, the six land safely at their destination. Most of the preparation for the trip is in building the vessel and launching mechanism, which resemble a large bullet and a large gun respectively. With the one dissenting voice quashed by Barbenfouillis and the other members, the plan is approved with Barbenfouillis choosing five others to accompany him. An association of astronomers has convened to listen to the plan of Professor Barbenfouillis, their president, to fly to the moon.

Man on the moon movie 1902