A Trip to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Based on stories by Jules Verne, the film depicts a team of astronomers who propel themselves to the Moon on a capsule fired from a cannon.
==References==
* Jack Davis's illustration for October in The Sesame Street Calendar 1972 features Grover slinging jack-o'-lantern guts into the eye of the moon, mirroring the iconic image of the moon oozing goo from its eye in A Trip to the Moon.
* The Muppet Show Comic Book: Family Reunion features a skit in which Fozzie Bear plays Baron Munchausen, a literary figure known for his relationship with the moon. In the background of the scene, artist Amy Mebberson depicted the lunar sphere as a face whose eye has been impaled with a crashed Swinetrek, referencing the iconic image from A Trip to the Moon. In a cross-reference, Méliès also directed Baron Munchausen's Dream in 1911.
==Connections==
* Tom Hanks played Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon assistant Jean-Luc Despont in the TV mini-series From the Earth to the Moon episode "Le voyage dans la lune"
* Ben Kingsley played Georges Méliès in Hugo for sequences referencing A Trip to the Moon
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