An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece A Trip to the Moon (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.
Direction
Bromberg's passion project spanning decades of detective work.
Practical Effects
Hand-painted frames revealed in jaw-dropping restoration footage.
Editing
Seamless weave of Méliès' films, interviews, and archival treasure hunt.
Director
Serge Bromberg
Serge Bromberg
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Costa-Gavras
Self - Filmmaker
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Self - Filmmaker
Michel Gondry
Self - Filmmaker
Michel Hazanavicius
Self - Filmmaker
Georges Méliès
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Tom Hanks
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Thomas A. Edison
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Henri Langlois
Self - Film Archivist (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The hand-colored print was discovered in 1993 at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, mislabeled and water-damaged, after being thought lost for decades.
Méliès' automated camera — which jammed and accidentally created the first jump cut — is essentially the birth of film editing, discovered by mechanical failure.
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