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A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la Lune)[a] is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne’s novels From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon’s surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. It features an ensemble cast of French theatrical performers, led by Méliès himself in the main role of Professor Barbenfouillis, and is filmed in the overtly theatrical style for which Méliès became famous.

Viaje a la Luna (Le Voyage dans la Lune) es una película francesa que se estrenó en 1902 suponiendo una revolución para la época. Su autor, Georges Méliès, fue el primer gran creador del cinematógrafo, el pionero en dotar a las primeras películas de un verdadero argumento. Artista, mago, ilusionista, saltimbanqui, el polifacético Méliès, vio en el nuevo invento del cinematógrafo una forma de aumentar la promoción de sus números. Aunque su estética estaba dominada por la técnica del teatro, concibió numerosos trucos y efectos que incluyo en sus más de 800 películas. La influencia que ha tenido Méliès en la técnica cinematográfica es incalculable, y hoy podemos referirnos a él como el primero en idear el cine como espectáculo.

Viaje a la Luna (1902) es considerada como la primera película de ciencia ficción, y en ella quedan evidenciados los elementos característicos del género (la nave espacial, la exploración de nuevos horizontes…). Algunas de las técnicas cinematográficas más conocidas ya están presentes en esta película, como los fundidos, la sobreimpresión, la utilización de maquetas, etc.

SINOPSIS:

La historia arranca con una reunión de científicos en la que el doctor Barbenfouillis (interpretado por el propio Georges Mélliès) trata de convencer a sus colegas de que participen en un viaje para explorar la Luna. Tras concretar el plan y formar el grupo que realizará la expedición, se ultiman los detalles del viaje y los científicos son disparados en un cohete espacial. La nave aterriza en el ojo de la Luna (imagen ya célebre) y los científicos comienzan a explorar el entorno lunar. No tardan mucho tiempo en encontrar a los habitantes de la Luna, los selenitas, que les capturan y llevan ante su rey. Después de descubrir la forma en la que los selenitas pueden ser vencidos con la utilización de un paraguas, los científicos consiguen escapar y regresar a la Tierra. Allí, tras caer en el mar y ser rescatados, son recibidos en Paris como héroes.

Directed by:
Georges Méliès

Produced by:
Georges Méliès

Written by:
Georges Méliès

Based on:
From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon
by Jules Verne (see also Inspirations section below)

Starring:
Georges Méliès
Bleuette Bernon
François Lallement
Henri Delannoy

Cinematography:
Théophile Michault
Lucien Tainguy

Production Company:
Star Film Company

Release dates:
1 September 1902 (France)[1]

Running time:
260 meters/845 feet[2]
18 minutes (12 frame/s)[3]
16 minutes (14 frame/s)[3]
9 minutes (24 frame/s)[3]

Country:
France

Language:
Silent

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American Aristocracy is a 1916 American silent adventure/comedy-drama film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Douglas Fairbanks. A 35mm print of the film is preserved at the George Eastman House and is currently in the public domain.

Directed by:
Lloyd Ingraham

Story by:
Anita Loos

Starring:
Douglas Fairbanks
Jewel Carmen

Cinematography:
Victor Fleming

Production company:
Fine Arts Film Company

Distributed by:
Triangle Film Corporation

Release dates:
November 12, 1916

Running time:
52 minutes

Country:
United States

Language:
Silent
English intertitles

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Synopsis:
Louis Wolheim plays the boss of the railroad yard in Miles City, Montana. The film opens with a landslide across the tracks in Montana, and a repair crew is dispatched to clear the tracks. Several hobos are lounging nearby and are put to work helping the repair crew. One of the hobos, played by Robert Armstrong, is discovered to have been a former railroad engineer who lost his job due to insubordination. He is given a new job for the railroad by the yard boss, but quickly falls in love with the boss’s fiancée, played by Jean Arthur.

Jealousy grows between the two over the affections of Arthur with both of them attempting to win her in marriage. Things come to a head during a fight in the railroad yard between the two, during which Wolheim is hit by a train and injured. To save his life, Armstrong must transport him in record time to Chicago for surgery.

Directed by:
George B. Seitz

Produced by:
William LeBaron
Myles Connolly (assoc.)

Written by:
James Ashmore Creelman

Starring:
Louis Wolheim
Robert Armstrong
Jean Arthur

Cinematography:
Karl Struss
John W. Boyle

Edited by:
Archie F. Marshek

Distributed by:
RKO Pictures

Release dates:
November 15, 1930 ( Premiere-Chicago)[1]
December 12, 1930 (U.S.)[1]

Running time:
74 minutes (original)
55 minutes (television edit)

Country:
United States

Language:
English

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Director W. Lee Wilder follows up his monumental success with “Phantom From Space” with this little ditty. (Okay, “Phantom From Space” was nowhere near successful, but it sounded good.)

Scientist Peter Graves dies in a plane crash, only to be revived by aliens from another world (and distant relatives of the great Marty Feldman) to do their bidding and assist in taking over Planet Earth.

The film “Killers From Space” and related promotional materials are public domain.

Plot:
Dr. Douglas Martin is a scientist working on atomic bomb tests. While collecting aerial data on an Air Force atomic blast at Soledad Flats, his plane crashes. He survives the crash unhurt, walking back to the air base with no memory of what happened, except for a strange scar on his chest.

At the base hospital, he acts so strangely that the authorities bring in the FBI, thinking he may be an impostor. He is cleared, but told to take some time off. He protests at being excluded from his project.

An atomic test is set off without his knowledge, so Martin steals the data, then goes back to Soledad Flats and puts the papers under a stone. The FBI agent has followed him, but he escapes until he crashes his car. Back at the hospital, he is given truth serum. He tells a story about being captured by space aliens from Astron Delta and held in their underground base. (The aliens have big eyes like ping-pong balls.)

The aliens plan to exterminate all humans with giant insects and reptiles, grown with radiation absorbed from the bomb tests. Martin intuits that the aliens use stolen electric power to control their powerful apparatus, and they need the bomb data to predict the energy to be released and balanced. The aliens had blanked his memory and hypnotized him into getting the data for them.

The FBI agent and the base commander are skeptical of such an incredible story, and keep him confined at the hospital. Nevertheless, the attending doctor confirms that Martin at least genuinely believes what he told them to be true.

With some calculations on a slide rule, Dr. Martin determines that if he shuts off the power to Soledad Flats for just ten seconds, it will create an overload in the aliens’ equipment. So he escapes the hospital and goes to the nearby electrical power plant, where he forces a technician to turn off the power. The alien base is destroyed in a massive explosion, saving the Earth from conquest.

Directed by:
W. Lee Wilder

Produced by:
W. Lee Wilder

Written by:
William Raynor
Myles Wilder

Starring:
Peter Graves
Barbara Bestar
James Seay
William Gerstle

Narrated by:
Mark Scott

Music by:
Manuel Compinsky

Cinematography:
William H. Clothier

Edited by:
William Faris

Distributed by:
RKO Radio Pictures

Release dates:
January 23, 1954 (US)

Running time:
71 min

Language:
English

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Plot:
During World War II, a Capelis XC-12 plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily frightened manservant (Mantan Moreland) soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies, and confirms this with some of the doctor’s hired help. Exploring, the three stumble upon a voodoo ritual being conducted in the cellar, where the doctor, who is in reality a foreign spy, is trying to acquire war intelligence from a captured US Admiral whose plane had crashed in a similar fashion on the island. But the interruption causes the zombies to turn on their master.

Directed by:
Jean Yarbrough

Produced by:
Lindsley Parsons

Written by:
Edmond Kelso

Starring:
Dick Purcell
Joan Woodbury
Mantan Moreland

Music by:
Edward J. Kay

Cinematography:
Mack Stengler

Edited by:
Richard C. Currier

Distributed by:
Monogram Pictures Corporation

Release dates:
May 14, 1941

Running time:
67 minutes

Country:
United States

Language:
English

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Penny Serenade is a 1941 romantic drama starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, and Edgar Buchanan.

The picture was directed by George Stevens, written by Martha Cheavens and Morrie Ryskind, and depicts the story of a loving couple who must overcome adversity to keep their marriage and raise a child.

Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.

IMDb Rating:7.2/10

As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows that they have shared. A flood of memories comes back to her as she ponders their present problems and how they arose.

Based on:
Penny Serenade 1940 short story (McCalls) by Martha Cheavens

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Suddenly is a 1954 American film noir, crime film directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale.

The drama features Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason and Nancy Gates, among others.
In post-war America, the President of the United States is scheduled to journey through the small town of Suddenly, California. Claiming to be checking up on security prior to his arrival, three FBI agents arrive at the home of the Bensons, on top of a hill that looks down upon the station where the Presidential train is due to stop. However, they soon turn out to be assassins led by the ruthless John Baron (Frank Sinatra), who take over the house and hold the family hostage.

The town sheriff, Tod Shaw (Sterling Hayden), arrives with Dan Carney (Willis Bouchey), a Secret Service agent in charge of the President’s security detail. When he does, Baron and his gangsters shoot Carney and a bullet fractures Shaw’s arm.

Baron sends one of his two henchmen to double-check on the President’s schedule but he is killed in a shootout with the police. Jud (James O’Hara), a television repairman, shows up at the house and also becomes a hostage. Pidge (Kim Charney) goes to his grandfather’s dresser to fetch some medication and notices a fully loaded revolver which he replaces with his toy cap gun.

Baron is confronted by the sheriff on the risks and meaning of killing the President and Baron’s remaining henchman begins showing some reluctance. For Baron, however, these are the very least of his concerns and it soon becomes clear that he is a psychopath whose pleasure comes from killing who and why he kills being the least of his problems.

A sniper’s rifle has been mounted on a metal table by a window. Jud discreetly hooks the table up to the 5000 volt plate output of the family television. Pop Benson (James Gleason) then spills a cup of water on the floor beneath the table. Although the hope is that Baron will be shocked to death, his remaining henchman touches the table first and is electrocuted, firing the rifle repeatedly and attracting the attention of police at the train station as he struggles to free himself. Baron shoots Jud, disconnects the electrical hookup and aims the rifle as the president’s train arrives at the station, but to his surprise, doesn’t stop (having been alerted to the risk). Ellen Benson (Nancy Gates) shoots Baron in the chest and Shaw shoots him again. Baron’s last words are, “Don’t… please.”

Based on Active Duty 1943 story in Blue Book (magazine) by Richard Sale

Music by:
David Raksin

Cinematography:
Charles G. Clarke

Edited by:
John F. Schreyer

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Sex Madness (1938) is an exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper, along the lines of Reefer Madness, supposedly to warn teenagers and young adults of the dangers of wild unprotected sex.

Philanthropist Paul Lorenz is one of the more public faces in the fight against behavior that spreads the many “social diseases”, such as syphilis and gonorrhea. An example of such behavior is going to or performing in burlesque shows, which promotes casual sex. Indeed, many in the audience at one burlesque show in New York have only sex on their mind, including young unmarried couple James and Jane, office colleagues Peggy and Betty (Peggy who is trying to seduce Betty), and Paul Lorenz’s son himself, Tom Lorenz, who is looking forward to an after show group sex party, which will include some of the girls from the show, such as Sheila Wayne, who has syphilis but treats it as casually as her sex. One of the show girls who won’t be attending the party is Millicent Hamilton. From a small town, good girl Millicent’s pre-engagement to her boyfriend Wendel Hope was interrupted when she won a beauty contest with a trip to New York. She found life in New York more difficult than she expected and a sexual encounter associated with trying to advance her show business career resulted in her also contracting syphilis. But Millicent is going to respected Dr. Hampton, who informs her that she can fully recover and eventually marry Wendel if she takes the slow, intensive but proven therapy. But when she leaves New York for home which means therapy with another doctor, Dr. Hampton warns her to beware of quacks who may promise a full, expensive miracle cure. When Millicent heads home, will she heed Dr. Hampton’s advice, or will she fall prey to the hope of a quick cure so that she can marry Wendel sooner?

Directed by:
Dwain Esper

Produced by:
Dwain Esper

Written by:
Joseph Seiden
Vincent Valentini

Starring:
Vivian McGill
Rose Tapley
Al Rigeli
Stanley Barton
Linda Lee Hill

Release dates:
1938

Running time:
57 mins.

Country:
United States

Language:
English

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The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles.

It was Welles’s third completed feature film as director. A drama about a war crimes investigator who tracks a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a New England town, it is the first Hollywood film to present documentary footage of the Holocaust.

The original story by Victor Trivas was nominated for an Academy Award.

IMDb Rating: 7.4/10

War crimes commissioner Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) has a mission to track down the errant Nazi war criminals and bring them to justice. One way is to use Konrad Meinike (Konstantin Shayne) as bait by freeing him and following him to his contacts. Meinike, driven by guilt over his actions during the war has become a Christian. Once free he immediately goes to a small Connecticut town and makes contact with his former Nazi associate Franz Kindler (Orson Welles) who is posing as Professor Charles Rankin. Kindler is hiding out as a teacher with a lovely new wife Mary (Loretta Young). When Meineke arrives in town to appeal to Kindler to give himself up, the professor responds by strangling his old associate and hiding the body in the nearby woods. Kindler believes himself safe because no one has an idea of his former identity. Wilson arrives in town following Meinike, posing as an antiques dealer, and starts sniffing out the dangerous Kindler and a confrontation of wills and cunning ensue.

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