A Trip to the Moon

1917 0h 3m EN

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5.1

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★6.9TMDB · 10★5.1IMDB · 33

Science FictionAnimationComedy

Synopsis

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Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strip, by Frederick Burr Opper. Happy speaks with someone in the park and takes a trip to the moon on a rocket that looks like the front half of a current racing car, where he is made king of the moon. A ballerina does a shimmy and Our Hero winds up back in the park being accosted by a cop. The inference is that he has fallen asleep and dreamed the entire trip.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Walter Lantz
Languages: No Language
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 3-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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109 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Happy Hooligan Animated Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 6

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0955345 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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6 / 6

WILD

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Only 10 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Walter Lantz directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in No Language.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 3-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2109 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "Happy Hooligan Animated Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5IMDB entry: tt0955345 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 10 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 3 min · 0h 3m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: A Trip to the Moon (1917)
IMDB rating: 5.1/10 · 33 votes

Part of

Happy Hooligan Animated Collection

Based on Frederick Burr Opper's Happy Hooligan comic strip character.

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Walter Lantz

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What people are saying

Rob2015-08-05
★ 8/10
What I would consider to be the first SciFi movie. Quite an entertaining movie mainly as it displays much of the scientific thought at the time and along with other George Melies films gave birth to what we now call movies. </br> Synopsis</br> After much careful planning on a chalk board by what looks to be Gandalf a group of brave explorers are fired out of a giant gun straight into the moons face. The group then encounter bad weather amongst other strange phenomenon and soon after the moon men, weird hominid creatures who jump around like apes. Armed with only umbrellas and their wits, they quickly explode the first one they encounter into a mist and promptly get taken by the moon men to explain themselves to the leader. Natually the leader is not best please, seeing the leaders annoyance they burst into action and do what can only be described as some kind of slam drop on the leader and explode him into a misty vapour in front of his already enraged followers. They get chased back to their ship and fall off the moon back to Earth in the most hilarious way, celebrations then ensure back on Earth. Go on, you know you want to watch it!

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