The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.
Directed by Georges Méliès
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Georges Méliès Professor of Astronomy - Mademoiselle Bodson
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The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
A Trip to the Moon
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