Trip to the Moon!

“Trip to the moon” is a classic cinema work that was proposed to be shown in black and white and in color. It is said to be colored frame by frame. Definitely restoring it was not easy for the colored copy was sometime lost and only been found on the year 1999. There were damaged frames so editors needed the black and white version and painted it frame by frame. Knowing how much effort was put into this work intrigued me, i deduce that this must be a very important classic cinema work.

I will criticize this work as if i was born in the 1900’s and did not have firm educational background, which was obviously very limited at that time. It is a silent film, no dialogues involved. The sound was great. It carried the emotions of the story through it’s rhythm. The different colors indicated different moods. Now let’s go the more interesting part; the story. The plot is of course about the trip to the moon. At first the plot is still normal. The time where the scientist persuades the sponsors although one of them seemingly contradicts the approval of the other sponsors. The next thing that happened was the building the vehicle that would later fire them to the moon. It was very interesting that the vehicle closely resembles a bullet because bullets move in high speeds and maybe that is what the director is trying to show. Next the scientists were fired to the moon. And there they encountered alien forms. They escaped and went down to earth. They have a somewhat tropical imagination of the surface of the moon. It is very intriguing because it shows water or lakes on the moon. Another thing interesting is the concept of other life forms. I think that the director placed humans over aliens because of the fact that they were able to escape and even eradicate some of the alien.

All in all the classic work is great. It was original, the plot. It was daring, showing and introducing alien life forms.