French filmmaker Georges Méliès, a pioneer of early cinema and special effects, transported audiences across the void of space to the moon in 1902. His 14-minute silent film, "A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage Dans La Lune), writes Leonard Davis for MSNBC and Space.com, has been painsakingly restored..
Le Voyage Dans La Lune has now rocketed ahead 109 years to the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on the French Riviera with a new color digital enhancement. The French band Air has even composed an original 21st century soundtrack to accompany the restored silent film. Le Voyage Dans La Lune was the first science fiction film.
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