Book : A TRIP TO THE MOON back in color

A book by Gilles VIDAL & Séverine WEMAERE (France / 2011)

In 1902, the cinema is roughly six-years old.
Georges MÉLIÈS, who shoots films since the presentation of the LUMIÈRE brothers invention, produces and directs A TRIP TO THE MOON, a superproduction.
He conceives the film in black and white but also in color, the print would then be hand-painted, in a colorist workshop...

This masterpiece, considered as the first science-fiction movie, is very successful and the image of the rocket in the eye of the moon goes all around the world.

Unfortunately, this color version of A TRIP TO THE MOON is lost and remains so for almost a century.
A print reappears in 1993, found in Spain, in critical conditions. After an outstanding long-lasting restoration, it is only in 2011 that the color version can be released again.

A trip in the very early time of cinema and the discovery of a colorful personality, great inventor and brilliant creator : Georges MÉLIÈS.