Kick-Ass Moon

 The 1902 silent film A Trip To The Moon was very old school but it is of course understandable because it was created prior to Neil Armstrong’s moon landing. It was based on pure creativity and imagination. The film maker Georges Méliès deserves major credit for this film. I think that if I were present in the first screening of the film, I would be moon-eyed, distraught and also amazed big time! I mean, imagine a time where we had no idea of the structures and science behind the moon. Moon was nothing but a huge white circle in the night sky that follows you wherever you go. Of course people back then imagined about aliens, fairies and other stuffs that could be living there. Funny as it may sound, I could imagine myself thinking about being a moon princess after watching the film give of course that I watch it on the year it was made. I think that this silent film inspired a lot of people about finding out secrets and the science that lie deep within the moon.

Watching it in the present era however, it is just a laughable film. Funny how knowledge progressed so much, if you compare the its state a hundred years before from now. Oh how ignorant they were of the moon before!