A Trip to the Moon: In Its Original 1902 Colors/The Extraordinary Voyage. The Extraordinary Voyage (2011)
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound - Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Flicker Alley, 2011.
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General Note: | Filmclip Title from title frames. In Process Record. |
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by Flicker Alley in 2011. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Language Note: | In English |
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Subject: | Early Film Film Studies |
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The Extraordinary Voyage chronicles the journey of A Trip to the Moon from the fantastical Melies' production in 1902 to the astonishing rediscovery of a nitrate print in color in 1993, to the premiere of the new restoration on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. The story of Moon's restoration to its original 1902 colors unfolds as Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange acquire a severely damaged color print from the Filmoteca de Catalunya in 1999 and then begin the tedious task of peeling off and unrolling the nitrate prints to be able to digitize them. It took two years to discover the images on those fragments, which were then stored on a hard drive for 8 years as the technology available at the time did not allow Lobster Films to continue the landmark restoration. The documentary includes interviews with contemporary filmmakers, including Costa Gavras, Michel Gondry, Michel Hazanavicius, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Melies' enduring significance to cinema.