Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
In The Impossible Voyage (1904, dir. Georges Méliès), a group of intrepid explorers fly into outer space in a rocket-train hybrid, only to accidentally fly straight into the yawning mouth of the rising sun (this film, like most of Méliès’s color films, was hand painted by a team of women in a production-line method - the coloring was done frame by frame)

In The Impossible Voyage (1904, dir. Georges Méliès), a group of intrepid explorers fly into outer space in a rocket-train hybrid, only to accidentally fly straight into the yawning mouth of the rising sun (this film, like most of Méliès’s color films, was hand painted by a team of women in a production-line method - the coloring was done frame by frame)

Drama in the Air (1904, dir. Gaston Velle) (via) “Who are nobler than the martyrs of science?” cried the lunatic. “They are canonized by posterity!” (May this terrible narrative, though instructing those who read it, not discourage the explorers of the air.) -Jules Verne, Drama in the Air (1851)

Drama in the Air (1904, dir. Gaston Velle) (via)

“Who are nobler than the martyrs of science?” cried the lunatic. “They are canonized by posterity!”

(May this terrible narrative, though instructing those who read it, not discourage the explorers of the air.)

-Jules Verne, Drama in the Air (1851)

Conquering the Skies (1906, dir. Ferdinand Zecca), in which the image of Zecca astride a vehicle he invented was superimposed on a view of Paris.  (via)

Conquering the Skies (1906, dir. Ferdinand Zecca), in which the image of Zecca astride a vehicle he invented was superimposed on a view of Paris. 

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The Motorist (1906, R.W. Paul) (via), a silent comedy short about a couple who exceed the speed limit and fly off the face of the Earth into outer space whilst fleeing the police. Motoring through the solar system, their car touches down on the sun and goes for a spin around Saturn’s rings.  Online here.

The Motorist (1906, R.W. Paul) (via), a silent comedy short about a couple who exceed the speed limit and fly off the face of the Earth into outer space whilst fleeing the police. Motoring through the solar system, their car touches down on the sun and goes for a spin around Saturn’s rings. 

Online here.

From the lost film To the Stars (1906, dir. Georges Méliès) (via)

From the lost film To the Stars (1906, dir. Georges Méliès) (via)