A Trip to the Moon (1920)
Also known as All Aboard for the Moon
1920 · Ephemeral film · 9 min · dir. Max Fleischer
- Animation
- Science Fiction
Synopsis
An animated interpretation of a rocket voyage to the moon demonstrates the scientific principles at play in theoretical space travel (such as gravity).
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Max Fleischer
- Studio
- J.R. Bray Studios
- Released
- 1920-02-07
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Cast & crew
Max Fleischer Director
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Historic Cinema · doesbud · 2022-08-09
It is great to see these early concepts on space travel. I only wish all these were available for Roku viewing on TV.
★★★★★ · Wow! Presages Kubrick · Gone221 · 2023-09-06
The moon ship reminds me of the Lunar Shuttle from the Earth orbiting Space Station to the Moon- 2001: A Space Odessey
★★★★ · lots of foresight · Sue712 · 2022-01-08
For the time the film was made, there is remarkable foresight. Especially the "scenes" of the surface of the moon.
★★★★ · The ship was fanciful, the Moon surprisingly accurate · Relic1962 · 2022-08-11
I have to say that, while the ship would be just as impractical as the earlier designs the movie poked fun at, the 1920s view of the Moon and the distant Earth was pretty accurate. The audiences of the period must have been amazed at the possibilities the future held, unlike the delusional Luddites of the modern day, who make up ludicrous fictions like the Earth being flat, or pretending we never landed on the Moon.
