Greetings again from the darkness. If you have seen Hugo, you know that a central figure in the Martin Scorcese film is Georges Melies, the grumpy train station vendor who catches young Hugo stealing from him. Frenchman Georges Melies was an early innovator in filmmaking and his most famous work was A Trip to the Moon (La Voyage dans la Lune) from 1902. The film is still studied today because of it’s ground-breaking work in animation and special effects, and is considered the first science-fiction film. The story goes that Melies went bankrupt after Thomas Edison and his technicians copied the film and distributed it in the U.S. before Melies could. It is also thought that this started the process of film copyrighting, so that ownership of film rights could be determined.
There are many versions of varying length in existence, but I could not find a complete 16 minute version which features the final parade. The version below has English narration added (albeit with a heavy French accent), and the famous moon landing is at about the 5:45 mark.
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