The Astronomers Dream (1898) Georges Méliès
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- This early silent film was created/directed by Georges Méliès and was released in France under the name, "La lune à un mètre," in 1898.
In the film an astronomer is studying at his desk in an observatory. The devil appears, then a woman appears and makes the devil and herself vanish. The astronomer draws a globe on a blackboard which comes to life and starts to move on the blackboard. The astronomer then looks through a small telescope.
The moon appears as a large face and eats the astronomer's telescope. Men tumble from its mouth. Then the moon is back in the sky. The astronomer stands on a table, which disappears and he falls down.
The moon becomes a crescent. A spirit, in the form of a lady, appears from it. The astronomer chases her, but she eludes him. Now another figure stands in the crescent of the moon, before reclining into its C shape.
The moon appears as a large face again, and the astronomer jumps into its mouth and a woman and the devil appear again. The astronomer reappears sitting asleep in his chair. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I like the implication that all astronomers do their work in wizard hats. Clearly this is a tradition that needs to be brought back!
From what I've heard, this was a running gag of his to blur the lines between science and basically alchemy/nonsense to imply that both are very speculative and both, in their time, thought they had all the answers. So all the scientists are portrayed as wizards
''I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum“
''We'll shoot the moon, and hope to call the tune, and make no pin cushion of this big balloon.''
“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
''Oh man has invented his doom. First step was touching the moon.''
''If there are aliens out there they shouldn't have anything to do with us, because the only thing that the human species can do perfectly is just make a mess out of stuff. I mean we have; it's so easy for anything that is a human organism is just to cause destruction because we have this ability to invent destructive things.''
~ George Bernard Shaw - Bob Dylan - God - Frank Zappa or Jethro Tull?
Scientist are wizards, yeah 😎😂😂
@@Awakeningspirit20 Very nice parallel to today. Even today scientists think they have all the answers even though its only 100 more years of knowledge.
Don't let the flat earthers see this they might want to use it as "evidence"
To be able to make a film like this in 1898 is truly an amazing achievement.
If I don't get wrong,the first Drácula by Bram Stroker since 1897.
@@ErdoganBal. Thanks..
@@iamme25yago 👍👍👍👍
Remember, movies were only 3 years old with the first one being in 1895.
@@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui I already know. You don't need to copy and paste.
Only 90s kids will remember this
Tinted VisionZz *1890s kids :-P*
Tinted VisionZz yeah, 1890s!
Tinted VisionZz oh back in my day (the 1890s) instead of using our fancy machine screens we used sticks to play and loved and we didn't have cars back than and this film was a spectacle to the eys
Lmao
Everyone here has conspired to ruin the timing and restraint of your joke.
117 years after it is still creepy as hell. That moon face I will never forget.
cause it's so edgy
+Zenic Xodus I know right
+Zenic Xodus this video is pretty mlg if you ask me
+Zenic Xodus this video is actually one of the. earliest mlg and dank memes ever it's also pretty edgy
+Zenic Xodus he also ate the dankest and finest mountain dew and Doritos he also 420 blazed on top of mount Everest he's the original snoop dogg
What a perfect circle he drew.
It was a prop
Maynard would be proud
Calipers existed in 1898
SECRET: This is actually a Prequel to Trip to the Moon, where they fly to the Moon to smash it's eye out in revenge for eating him.
No..!?
That's what I thought
Cant be a prequel if its older lol
@@carlosmarx2380 A Trip to the Moon came out in 1902, 4 years after this one
@@TheGingiGamer yeah I know so it can't be a prequel.
Imagine watching this in 1898
Pan Kruk it was made 1902
@@TheAstralthief No that was a different movie called :A Trip To The Moon"
It would have been the most exciting thing in the world.
Like we watched Avatar in 2009
Probably scarier back then
0:13 Georges Melies' wife who appeared in all his films you will notice her in every single silent film no matter how small the role. George Melies also designed his own props and stage sets, and you will find objects disappear and reappear this is because he was a great magician by trade and his wife his assistant. Also, he is the bearded man in this film as he played a character in all his silent films. See the movie "Hugo" if you want to know more about Georges Melies. Enjoy!
He was a lucky guy in MANY ways!
Though not his wife at the time of making the films. Jehanne d'Alcy is the actress and was Melies' mistress. He married d'Alcy long after his film making days were over and his first wife had died. Hugo is a wonderful homage to Melies but greatly inaccurate about his private life and why his career as a film maker ended.
Tanks for the informations😀!!!
Obligements for that depth. Please dig the following moon spectrums that'd sprang strong to mind during my bewildered brain's 70 circuits round the sun...
''I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum“
''We'll shoot the moon, and hope to call the tune, and make no pin cushion of this big balloon.''
“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
''I knew a girl who was almost a lady
She had a way with all the men in her life
Every inch of her blossomed in beauty
And she was born on the fourth of July
Well she lived in an aluminum house trailer
And she worked in a juke box saloon
And she spent all the money I give her
Just to see the old man in the moon''
''Oh man has invented his doom. First step was touching the moon.''
''If there are aliens out there they shouldn't have anything to do with us, because the only thing that the human species can do perfectly is just make a mess out of stuff. I mean we have; it's so easy for anything that is a human organism is just to cause destruction because we have this ability to invent destructive things.''
~ John Prine - George Bernard Shaw - Bob Dylan - God - Frank Zappa or Jethro Tull?
Just watch Hugo and here I am, absolutely loved it
Very astonishing. Just imagine seeing this in the 1898, they probably thought this was the greatest thing in the world.
were they wrong
@@okokokokokokokokkook Not at all
i still think this was the greatest thing in the world in 2022
Actually Avatar came out that year and critics liked that better. ;-)
@@samquek1025stoop kid?
This film definitely looked like it was ahead of it's time!!! Now that it's 2023, this film is now 125 years old!!! 😱😱😱
So, it's a warm summers' evening in Paris 1898. Your girlfriend/wife/mistress has just spent an hour and a half getting dressed in 5 layers of corsets and bloomers. You rode in a horse drawn carriage across the city for a fine dinner of snails and blood-sausage and then you go to the theater to see a 3 minute, 30 second film and head back home for the evening.
Wow. Isnt that the truth. Maybe they had double features then :)
They would have displayed multiple films, and probably some vaudeville acts as well
Worth it. Had blood-sausage.
I don't think it worked that way. Cinemas back then were linked to theaters, so it's very likely they watched a few movies before and after watching a teather show, which was much longer, so in total they would stay at least 1 or 2 hours
Why can’t we go back?
It's 2020.
Me: *Proceeds to watch 122 year old film*
I'd love to be able to see a 1022 year old film. Imagine being able to see the middle ages. Hopefully the world will survive for future people to be able to live that.
123 now cuz I am in 2021 stuck in lockdown
2021 now 123 yrs
You should check out the channel silentfilmhouse has lots of this...
Its 2021 and i am loving all these old movies and stuffs of about more than 100 years XD
I find this film oddly comforting; such an imaginative short that inspires the imagination and makes you think about just how wonderful film can really be. Then again, most of Georges Melies' surviving films have that effect. :)
It’s the creepiest thing that ever existed ever
@@bottle3124 That is strictly because it is French and so wonderful in that way. Inimitable!
this is 1898? damn, this footage looks a lot better than a lot of today's security cameras......
Or photos of the Loch Ness monster, Yeti...
Or footage of UFO sightings
I love old shorts like this if was not for stuff like this we never have what we have today
Georges Méliès is one of the best examples to showcase the power of ingenuity.
When you have no past examples to base your work upon and all you possess is your mind and creativity, you can really do wonderful things.
These were an extension of his theatrical magic shows.
My great great great grandmother was 20 when this film came out.
On which side ? On mother or father ?
Mine was probably 50 or something
my great grandfather was 11 when this was released
Wow, nice & interesting! I don't know when my Great-Great-Great-Grandma was born, but my best guess is she was probably born in either the late 1880s or early 1890s, so it's like this was made during her childhood, lol!...
@@kiplingwasafurry1108 Just one great?! Wow! My Great-Grandpa was only born in 1929...
If there was a child right in front of you, what would you do ?
George Méliès: 1:32
Launch the child into orbit
Yeet the child
💀💀💀💀💀
Amazingly sophisticated and entertaining given the fact that this was at the dawn of film making....a man ahead of his time, Georges Melies.......
ok
I love the simplicity of these old films. They just had an idea they thought was fun and executed it
dumbledore while nobody at his room
hahahahha
Damn hahahahaha so true
If only that prop was still around, such an intricate work of art
I never had this reaction to anything ever, but silent black and white movies just give me small tingles in my heart, it has a soothing effect. I just breath as I feel my BPM dropping. Anyone else?
At age 13, in 1959, I got my first Kodak' brownie' movie camera & projector (still have them) & proceeded to make
3 minute, silent 'movies', with plots, using my teenage friends as actors! In only a few minutes, with care, an entire
story could be told! / George Melies was a genius in being able to do this, since he had no predecessors, in 1898!
(p.s. In 1964, my 'bunk mate' in Army Basic training was Terry Gilliam, who would go on to "Monty Python" fame &
to direct movies reminiscent of George Melies' films!)
this is a piece of art
beautifully eerie is all I can say
This right here is the most remarkable film and animation there was and is honestly insanely impressive for it's time. This is so ahead of the curb it's not even funny. It's truly out of this world, surreal, original. This guy was a complete genius.
How I would love to know how the audience reacted to this in 1898. I'm sure they were spellbound, but I wonder if they were as freaked out by that weird, chomping moon as I am 120 years later.
When those kids were "spit out"...... the whole thing is weird.
One of the great things about these very early silent films is how it shows the period stagecraft. All these props were very much part of the Victorian stage. The 80s movie Munchausen shows some of that.
It's truly amazing how far cinematography has gone
Moon related topics like this were somewhat of a commonplace at the turn of the 19th century. At the St. Louis worlds fair there was a "Trip to the Moon" which had similar weird graphics like this. It was on the Pike, the entertainment portion of the fair. I think this movie recreates some of the spirit of the fair, especially that "along the Pike in 1904.
Trip to the Moon was done by the same man :)
124 years old and it's still remarkable!
The moon looks like if Thomas the Tank Engine and Animal from Muppet Babies had a bastard love child.
My thought as well. Only difference is that I had Animal swapped out with Alfred E. Newman from Mad Magazine.
Outstandingly valid!
Either way it's pure nightmare fuel.
It's creepy as hell, could easily give someone nightmares
your comment is perfect
Amazinly crisp celluloid beautifully preserved and digitized for mod film buffs. Having thoroughly enjoyed Hugo the silver screen adaptation of the Melies story ( with artistic interpretation ;) I was happy to find the originals and you can see the theatrical stage magician transform into the creative vision thankful these clips have not melted into silver nitrate
Cecelia Passarella true, even now some lost films reappear :)
Brilliant. Such a shame so much of his work was destroyed
I wonder, didn't they watch these films and say "we're moving so fricking fast, maybe we should slow down the film on playback"
Due to expensive film in 1898. the average film playback rate was 12 frames a second.
put the playback speed on .75. That's closer to what it looked like in 1898.
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efe aydal.
@@chandlerlewis3309 :
You have a machine in 1898 that would do exactly that, or would you do it just right by hand? Will you be quiet, neanderthal, if you please, ugh, ugh!
This piano track is absolutely amazing
I play a lot like this. When it sounds like this, I know I'm doing well ...
I love that the astronomer threw the kids back in the moons mouth, like y’all got to go! 😂😂
Kids at his workroom are probably his worst nightmare
Scared the hell outta me 😂
The Astronomer's Dream, is like the resemblance of life, the sad piano soundtrack is really good about life. Everything that's going on to him is like life getting in the way, the Moon that chomps through everything is like hell toying with your mind, guess why it looks creepy and why the near end the Devil from the very beginning of the film comes out. Then after all the living hell there's a hope in the dark, the woman which I believe is the guardian angel restores and helps the astronomer to put things back to normal so that he can make his dream come true. (Birth, Life, Death, Legacy)
it was just a children spitting moon in a dream
Do you have any idea how complicated your circulatory system is
Can't help but love it's purity and creative balance of mixing original art work , impartial acting with a dash of Halloween craziness ....simply wonderful......👍👍
Gorgeous film. And the soundtrack it’s amazing. Love it!
unbelievably beautiful soundtrack, I don't know why it just gets me...
The quality is excellent. Thanks for posting.
Omg, that's old. Loved it. Thanks for uploading!
The world was so beautiful n innocent back then
Ah yes, a children spitting moon, so innocent
Very strange video but very interesting again
No because this is what dreams really look like and to execute it so well in 1898 is beyond mesmerizing
This is awesome. Thank you for sharing!
I was in the 5th grade when this came out
Aleal damn! You must be 1,000 years old by now!
... how?
What?if that’s true you must be 130 years old by now
Daaaang u must be 5000years old
Wow you're old I was in the 4th grade when this came out
Ah I remember this so fondly, going to the cinema to see this film with my pals in grade school.
I wish I was old enough to be able to see it in theaters but I was born in the 2000s
absolutely love the added music on these shorts, great taste
this is genuinely amazing, im so impressed. the 'chewing moon' is horrifying!
This movie is scarier than most horror movies. This is actually really good for 1898
Nobody:
That one kid: Ahhhh the good old days
If were Sir Charles Chaplin,would be 9yo in that era,he born in 1889 and maybe saw this,I dunno lf remembered this💪💪💪💪💪
o.m.g. you are really amazing video maker you have this extra relics
Beautiful set actually. Great look back at history, it's a treasure
I had no idea how the people of the 1900's knew so many special effects.:O
chin kim *1890s.
They invented them from nothing. Their imaginations truly ran rampant. And what marvelous results. Everything from then was built on until we see the CGI effects. Back then it was as real as life. Now it looks dated, but in context it was brilliant as was much of M. Méliès' work.
Would the animation on the blackboard be the first use of hand drawn animation in film?
Nic McCarthy possibly 🤔
According to my cinema history class, someone else did that in 1862. I forget his name but his bosses had him make up a new production every week for years so as to never play the same thing for too long, until he had a nervous breakdown, threw all his work in a river and killed himself.
I was wondering that myself, but after looking at it carefully, I don't think it's true animation. The "Setting Moon" seems to be a circle drawn on a movable piece of board or paper, and the arms & legs on the dancing globe are sticks. Note the latitude and longitude lines on the globe change from the original when it starts to dance--the entire board was swapped out. But I know why you asked that--on a quick viewing, it looks animated.
I know it's an old comment but if I recall correctly, Pauvre Pierrot from 1892 would be the first one. Or at least older than this.
This was well planned filming!
Wonderful!
Thanks for this upload!
I really like it!
+MrSunflowersongs why thank you
I can't get over that he actually fed that kid to the moon.
Moon's gotta eat.
He sent them back to where they came from
I just love this thanks for the upload
better than 99% of hollywood productions from the past couple of decades
Are you saying that the Jews deserved to suffer the holocaust? The audacity.
This gave me nightmares
+EggFun146 I can understand
me too. this is the scariest film and thing (the moon) i have ever seen!
Watch "The Dancing Pig" for a good time.
Cant sleep. Moon will eat me....... Cant sleep. Moon will eat me........
Same
This was fun, cute, and weird to watch!
How is this cute?
This short film is scarier and creepier than most horror films nowadays like Crimson Peak or It.
This and the music envokes something nostalgic and wonderul in me. Sad but uplifting all at once
I'm still crying 😭 those people are dead like they died on 1950 or 60
Being a adult in the 1890s
You die quicker
The died in 1673
I was born in the wrong genereation
As was I.
That generation died in WW I
Ruok no, u dont.
No, you are not. Make this your generation. Make other generations envy your generation.
Lol you really wanna meet jack the ripper don't you?
thanks for sharing silentfilmhouse
The guy sees 2 children pop out of the moon and his first reaction was to throw them out, clearly a enlightened individual
Was that the bite of 87 ??
We evolved so much look at us now and look back what we use to be 😢
This is pretty good for 1898
4am, can't sleep, so I put this on, I'm hoping I have dreams inspired by this film ☺️
That wizard took some of the good stuff.
Also, I had a hysterically fun time imagining the dialogue.
So peaceful music
And oddly fitting
Only 1890s kids will remember this
So glad to find these gems
💖 thank you
Find this far more captivating than any of the CGI junk made today. It just captures the imagination in its simplicity
It’s a children spitting moon
You’d go back there you’d be bored out of your mind
Imagine calling technology the thing keeping us alive junk
I'm interested in what kind of drugs that Astronomer was doing.
I have yet to meet this moon. Would be nice.
Imagination, I'll bet
Only 1898 kids will remember this banger 🔥
Good ol' silent early 1900s films. They are just as good as pop tarts and that "moon" is beautiful and perfect. Its face is astoundingly talented.
@Μάριος ΒΣ Eh, close enough. 1898 was the late 1890s
Only eight years before I was born(1906)
You youngin'. I remember catching this in theaters.
+ihavenonamenoname of course you were xD
i was born in the wrong generation.
I was born during the cavemen years
James Irwin shut up your 11
incredibly imaginive
Not really.. looks to be depicting Pythagerous, Aristotle, Carpanicus.. Do your research.. satanic moon worshipping deceivers.... there's no such thing as a globe earth.. it's satanic... Earth spins on 66.6 axis? lol Earth orbits around the sun at 66,600mph? Hahaha. 1969 (flip the 9's) is the only time we've been to the moon? Which is the hardest proof that we live on a ball (which has so many flaws, and holes, and can easily be proven to be a lie)... lmfao. This video is satanic religion... not original at all... It's in so many films, still to this day...
@@batman4452 I'm going to assume you are a troll
@@eukarya_ I'm going to assume you're a brainwashed sheep that is terrified to pop his bubble, terrified to take the red pill, terrified to know that everything he knew was a lie... I've been at that stage, you doubt, you're scared, it's terrifying, but you learn to be enlightened, seeing the world as fools is horrible, seeing that the world is ran by satanic evil is horrible... but just ignore the FACTS I stated, don't do the research, call me a troll, and continue being deceived, like you want to.
@@batman4452 You haven't given any facts at all, you just accused the scientific truths of being a lie and the Moon landing to be false but you haven't pointed out why our scientific models are flawed and haven't provided any proof of how they were faked.
In fact you seem like a troll mocking on conspiracy theorists.
Call me a sheeple or whatever you fancy, I'll stand by the science that has given us all this advancements in life quality, such as the wi-fi we're using to communicate.
@@eukarya_ Their are some theories, and facts in my post... but pretend like their aren't. The numbers are facts, but you see nothing peculiar about them lol.
This is beautiful ❤
this must have been a blast to make
more appropriate with the benny hill theme
You sir, are a legend!
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Or the song titled "hey moon " by John Maus
And I thought the moon in Majora's Mask was scary. Maybe that's where Nintendo got the inspiration.
メチャクチャ面白かったです！
Thanks!
0:57 - I didn’t realize that this film had jumpscares.
Before Stephen King's Carrie did the first "legendary jumpscare", Astronomer's Dream is the first.
Mr. Friendship - Hey, wait a minute... I’ve seen your comments on other videos. Nice to see you here.
i'd rather see five minutes of this stuff than the whole Star Wars circus
I would have to agree with you. Can't see how people liked that movie.
Man, the very first Star Wars movie was absolute gold.
Perfect example of a pretentious douche. Empire Strikes Back is arguably in the top 10 films ever made. This shouldn't be in the top 500.. and I love early silent films.
Harry Warburg It's time travel!
Calling someone a "pretentious douche" in such an arbitrary context makes you one by default. Some Star Wars movies might be in your 10 favourite films but not even close to a top 100. Hundreds of films have brought more to cinema and art than any Star Wars.
My great grand dad told me about these films. He said even then people thought they were weird.
Not sure your great granddad would love back then but nonetheless I can believe that
This is nice, I thought it was cute. Music together with the moon. I loved.
0:58 Thomas the Tank Engine
Does this song (music) have a name? I love it😊
The Name is :
No need to thank
"Friday Morning", by Kevin MacLeod :)
Estudio Aquiles Lanza haha why am i not suprised :p
+Darknaut Valis ;)
Amazing special effects for 125 years ago !! Imagine what people thought about this back in this day. 🤯🤯
Watching George Melies's legacy overwhelmed me.