All language subtitles for Georges Méliès - Le Voyage dans la Lune

The Astronomers are assembled in a large hall

embellished with instruments.

The President and members of the committee enter.

Everybody takes his seat.

Entrance of six manned servants carrying the telescopes

of the Astronomers.

The President takes his chair and explains to

the members his plan for a trip to

the moon.

The

scheme is approved by many, but one member

violently opposes saying.

After some argument, the President throws his papers

and books at his head.

Upon

order being restored, the trip proposed by the

President is voted by acclamation.

The manned servants bring traveling suits.

President Barbonfouilly selects five colleagues to accompany him.

Nostradamus, Alcofribas, Omega, Micromegas, and Parapharagamus.

They enter the interior of a workshop where

smiths, mechanics, weighers, carpenters, upholsterers, etc.

are working hard at the completion of the

machine.

Micromegas accidentally falls into a tub of nitric

acid.

A workman informs the Astronomers that if they

would ascent to the roof, they will witness

a splendid spectacle, the casting of the gun.

Against the horizon, the chimneys are seen belching

forth volumes of smoke.

Suddenly, the flag is hoisted.

At the signal, a mass of molten steel

is directed from each furnace into the mold

for the gun.

The mold pours forth flames and vapor.

On the top of the roofs of the

town, pompous preparations have been made.

The shell is in position ready to receive

the travelers.

These arrive, respond to the acclamation of the

crowd, and

finally enter the shell.

A marine closes the breach through which they

have passed.

A number of gunners are now pushing the

shell up and incline into the mouth of

the gun.

The cannon is loaded, the breach is closed.

Everyone is waiting anxiously for the signal which

starts the shell on its voyage.

An officer gives the signal.

The gun is fired, and the shell disappears

into space.

The shell coming closer every minute, the moon

magnifies rapidly, until finally it attains colossal dimensions.

Suddenly, the shell pierces the eye of the

moon.

The shell comes down with a crash.

The astronomers get out, and are delighted at

the landscape which is new to them.

Against the horizon, the Earth is rising slowly

into space, illuminating the picture with a fantastic

light.

The astronomers see craters everywhere.

Just as they are about to explore, an

explosion throws the unfortunate men violently in all

directions.

The astronomers show sign of fatigue after the

rough trip they have just had.

They stretch themselves out on the ground and

go to sleep.

Seven gigantic stars, representing the Great Bear, appear

slowly.

And out of the stars come faces of

women who seem annoyed at the presence of

these intruders in the moon.

Then, the stars are replaced by a lovely

vision of Phoebus on the crescent, of Saturn

in his globe, and of charming young girls

holding up a star.

They decide to punish the terrestrials in an

exemplary manner.

By order of Phoebus, snow is falling from

all quarters, covering the ground with its white

coat.

The cold becomes unbearable, so the unfortunate voyagers

wake up half frozen.

They decide, without hesitation and in spite of

the danger, to descend into the interior of

a great crater in which they disappear one

by one whilst the snowstorm is still raging.

The astronomers arrive into the interior of a

most curious grotto filled with enormous mushrooms of

every kind.

One of them opens his umbrella to compare

its size with a mushroom, but the umbrella

suddenly takes root and, transforming itself into a

mushroom, starts growing, attaining gigantic proportions.

The astronomers suddenly notice strange beings coming out

from underneath the mushrooms while making singular contortions.

These are the Selenites, or inhabitants of the

moon.

A fantastical being rushes on an astronomer who

defends himself and, with the stroke of his

umbrella, the Selenite bursts into a thousand pieces.

But the Selenites are arriving in numbers.

The astronomers are captured, bound, and taken to

the palace of the king of the Selenites.

On a splendid throne, surrounded by living stars,

the Selenite king is seated.

President Barbanfouilly makes a dash for the king

of the Selenites and, lifting him like a

feather, throws him violently on the ground.

The astronomers run away in the midst of

the general disorder.

The Selenite army is pursuing them.

The astronomers run at full speed, turning around

each time they are pressed too closely and

reducing the fragile beings to dust.

At last, the astronomers have found the shell

and quickly shut themselves in the interior.

Thanks to the advance they have succeeded in

getting over their adversaries, only one, the president,

has been left behind.

He rushes to the rope which hangs from

the point of the shell and, letting himself

slide down the rope, he gives it an

impetus which causes the shell to fall off

the edge of the moon.

The shell falls with sickening rapidity.

The sea appears.

The shell balances and, thanks to the hermetically

sealed air in its interior, rises slowly to

the surface.

The shell is picked up by a steamer

which tows it to port.

The mayor welcomes the astronomers with a speech

and a general ovation awaits their happy return.

Transcription by Kasamaruti/GM

Translation by — Kasamaruti/GM