Film Title: A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) Year: 1902 Studio: Star Film Company Silent or Talkie: Silent Genre: Science Fiction Starring: Georges Méliès Bleuette Bernon François Lallement Henri Delannoy It would be fairly easy, and maybe even somewhat expected, for a person to scoff at a rudimentary film. To a […]
Background During the formative years of silent films, the major filmmakers and studios had “stock companies”. It was an idea based on theatrical traditions, one that supplied a ready-made cast for almost any production. D.W. Griffith especially liked the idea of a stock company so that he could play the actors against one another. One […]
A supernova is defined as an explosion in the sky, resulting in “an extremely bright, short-lived object that emits vast amounts of energy.” The dictionary writers were defining a celestial phenomenon; but they could easily have been describing the silent cinema. For their first 30 years or so, motion pictures were mute. They were a […]
