天文学院院长（乔治·梅里爱 Georges Méliès 饰）在一次会议上提出天马行空的月球旅行计划。他和另五名大胆的天文学家监制出了炮弹舱和大炮，并在军队的帮助下乘坐炮弹舱顺利登月。兴奋过后六名天文学家精疲力竭的在月球表面睡去，浑然不知许多星星悄然观察着他们熟睡的样貌。最后一场寒冷的降雪唤醒了他们。众人躲藏到地洞中却不慎用雨伞惊扰了月球人，于是一场慌乱的冒险开始了…… 本片是科幻电影的开山之作，灵感来源于儒勒·凡尔纳的小说《从地球到月球》和H·G·威尔斯的小说《最早登上月球的人》。影片于1902年发行了黑白版和手绘彩版，全长约14分钟。后结局与彩版一度失传。1993年，受损严重的彩版拷贝被私人收藏家捐赠给西班牙巴塞罗那电影资料馆；2002年，结局“凯旋而归”在法国被重新发现。影片修复计划持续十余年。 2011年，影片的彩色完整修复版在戛纳电影节首映，以纪念梅里爱诞辰150周年，此时距离影片问世亦已过去109年。
电影的发明者卢米埃尔兄弟，于1895年利用“活动摄影机”拍摄了世界上第一批电影，这一年也成为了电影的诞生年。 《火车进站》是他们最有名的和最被人仿效的作品之一。在影片《火车进站》中，火车头冲着镜头呼啸而过，当时的观众看了大吃一惊，十分恐慌，以为真会被火车轧死，吓得惊慌四散。从此，由他们所启动的活动摄影不只在人类纪实工具的发展史上展现了划时代的意义，火车进站的镜头也象征了电影技术发展的源起。
1895年12月28日法国卢米埃尔兄弟俩在一家咖啡馆里公开放映了《工厂大门》、《火车进站》等影片，被电影史确认为电影诞生之日。《工厂大门》可称为第一部广告宣传片。摄影机在门外记录了下班工人走出门外，骑车的，走路的，一幅自然真实的景象。乔治萨杜尔说“至今还使人感到一种朴素的魅力。”大门在略靠右边，在中间靠左的地方还有一个小门，因为光线暗，所以是黑色的。大门和小门刚好形成黄金分割。从大门出和从小门出的人，在构图上，也形成力量的平衡。 《工厂大门》在表现了工人以后，接着是一辆由两匹骏马拉着的马车载着厂主们驰进大门。
In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.
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.
两个简单的场景，而张扬，穿着爱德华七世时代的小孩试图喂一勺药给生病的小猫。这部电影是对是最早的电影之一，切到特写，然后再回到同样的中景的编剧迈克尔·布鲁克之前重要{} michael@everyman.demon.co.uk
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Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.
This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.
A documentary chronicling the pioneering efforts of black filmmaker William D. Foster in the early years of the industry and Oscar Micheaux's controversial impact on the subsequent "race movies".
Pharmacy trainee Władzio (Eugeniusz Bodo) is a shy young man with a good heart, in love with lovely Loda (Loda Halama).
Probably filmed in 1895, a group of people stand along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. The train pulls up and attendants help passengers off and on. This was not in the Lumière's official catalog, and was likely screened in early 1896. This film is often misidentified on Youtube as "L'Arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat", which is the title of the 1897 remake.
The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El Paso. The meeting was celebrated in both El Paso and Juárez with parades, elaborate receptions, lavish gifts and large crowds. Shot by the pioneers of Mexican Cinema the brothers Alva. This is a typical example of newsreel material prior to the Mexican revolution. By hemerographical references we know that this footage was presented to the then president of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz in the Castle of Chapultepec, then residence of the president.
A documentary in réalité style harkening back to the early years of cinema. Composed of scenes around Victoria, BC during February 2019.
Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from the newsreels, ethnographic and actuality films, to the controversy of "The Story of the Kelly Gang" and the success of "The Sentimental Bloke".
Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
A group of children is playing in the garden.