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Young people of a certain age might remember the images of Verne and Méliès better in the music video for “Tonight, Tonight” by the Smashing Pumpkins, c. 1997. Heavily influenced, you could say. -DL
Oh, and for those deeply invested, or just curious, you can find an interesting set of observations on the connections and lineage amongst these various strands at this website right here, just by clicking through. Cartoons, animation, art, and more.
-GHW
Une Voyage dans la Lune, a silent film released in 1902 by Georges Méliès, is one of my favorite bits of Verne cultural ephemera. Heavily inspired by Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon, Méliès created one of the first and most memorable works of cinematic science-fiction. Particularly iconic: the man in the moon, grumbling after the rocket ship lands in one of his eyes, and the moonmen, a lizardlike people wielding tridents who disappear in a video-game-esque puff of smoke when struck. -DL
