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[Thread] Ok so I had made a thread in May, on Twitter, about my visit to La Cinémathèque, in Paris, where I saw the excellent exhibitions devoted to James Cameron and Georges Méliès. I'm reproducing here the part about this French filmmaker who was so imaginative that Scorsese made a film about him.

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Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) was released 122 years ago today. This silent, black-and-white film is the forebear of everything this account is about.🙏

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The Spaceshipper 🚀

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Méliès made the world first movie studio, at Montreuil, near Paris.

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A Trip to the Moon, where it* all begins 🥰 (* the subject of this account, notably)

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A Trip to the Moon (1902), from concept to screen 😊

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It's so great to be able to do a concept to screen so long after the fact. It's probably nothing to you, but it's huge to me. 👌

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That film was the 2001/STAR WARS of its time--a major breakthrough in regards to design and visual effects. It is a masterpiece.