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Week One, Topic 1

Week One, Topic 1

Q After watching the George Méliès' film A Trip to the Moon (1902) think about the differences and similarities between how you believed someone would had processed that movie then emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually (among numerous ways) and how you processed the last “big event” or blockbuster movie you saw. Tell us what you think are different and similar. Going beyond the entertainment value of a non-documentary movie, what other value do you get out of seeing movie? Reference specific vocabulary and concepts from the Course Content to describe what you observed. Respond to at least two of your classmates.

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“A Trip to the Moon” is arguably known to be the best George Melies film produced in 1902. The film highlighted the elements that made science fiction films successful. In the beginning of the 20th century, film was still being established. Majority of the films then were short and contained non-edited episodes of daily life, crowds in a town or city and if lucky would include far off land and maybe new technologies such as a locomotive.