A Trip to the Moon by George Melies
(outline from manuscript)
1. The Scientific Congress of the Astronomers Club.2. The plan of the voyage is explained to the scientists with general enthusiasm.
3. The monstrous factory. Construction of the projectile.
4. Foundries, blast furnaces. Casting of the giant gun.
5. The astronomers embark in the shell.
6. The loading of the gun.
7. A signal with a flag. Fire!!
8. The race in space. The moon approaches.
9. Fully right into the eye!!
10. The shell falls to the moon. The Earth Light.
11. The plain of craters. Volcanic eruptions.
12. The dream (meteors, the Great Bear, Phoebe, twin stars, Saturn, etc.)
13. The snowstorm.
14. At forty degrees below zero. The descent into one of the craters.
15. Within the interior of the moon. The cave with giant mushrooms.
16. Meeting of the Selenites. Homeric combat.
17. Prisoners!
18. The king of the moon. The army of Selenites.
19. Escape.
20. Devilish pursuit.
21. The astronomers find the shell. Departure from the moon.
22. A vertical fall in the vacuum.
23. The shell falls into the ocean.
24. In the maritime depths.
25. Rescue. Return to port.
26. A large fete. A triumphal function.
27. Crowning and decoration of the heroes of the voyage.
28. A grand procession of "marines" and the men fired from the gun.
29. Inauguration of the commemorative statue by the Mayor and the city councilmen.
30. Large public rejoicing. A Selenite, captive from the moon, is exhibited in public as a phenomenon.
