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George merlies

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was born on the 8th of December 1861 in Paris to Jean-Louis-Stanislas Méliès and his Dutch wife, Johannah-Catherine Schuering.  A Trip to the Moon, released in the UK initially as Trip to the Moon,is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. 

The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 399–411 in its catalogues. Its total length is about 260 meters of film which, at Méliès's preferred projection speed of 12 to 14 frames per second,is about 17 minutes.

 An internationally popular success at the time of its release, it is the best-known of the hundreds of films made by Méliès, and the moment in which the spaceship lands in the Moon's eye remains one of the most iconic images in the history of cinema It was named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century.