A Trip to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon
6.9

A Trip to the Moon

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Directed by: Walter Lantz

Overview

Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strip, by Frederick Burr Opper. Happy speaks with someone in the park and takes a trip to the moon on a rocket that looks like the front half of a current racing car, where he is made king of the moon. A ballerina does a shimmy and Our Hero winds up back in the park being accosted by a cop. The inference is that he has fallen asleep and dreamed the entire trip.

Review (1)

  • Rob (Rated: 8)

    What I would consider to be the first SciFi movie. Quite an entertaining movie mainly as it displays much of the scientific thought at the time and along with other George Melies films gave birth to what we now call movies.
    Synopsis
    After much careful planning on a chalk board by wh...

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