George Melies

What were Melies' contributions to cinema? Why is his work so significant?

George had made plenty of contributions to the cinematic universe here are some of the things he did that made it the history books. George's "A Trip To The Moon" (1902) is considered the first ever science fiction film made. George Melies a man in love with the art of illusion and magic tricks was one of the first to ever use and make special effects to trick the eye into believing things you see on motion picture, he used many camera tricks. A fun fact about "A Trip To The Moon" is the film is about 825 feet of film one of the longest first films made and released. Many highly praise the French Filmmaker calling him many great things he's well respected in the film industry, he was known as the "Alchemist of Light", "the first great film magician", and even D.W. Griffith said "I owe him everything". Prior to George Melies's film career he was a full time magician doing his shows in his own theater, he had his own Parison theater. In 1895, he saw a presentation of the cinematograph an early version of the film camera (and projector) by the Lumières brothers, and set about learning the craft of film. From there it was greatness he had practiced his craft and learned. One day his film had jammed and it created a special effect and from there Melies practiced and studied techniques, the rest was literally film history. His work is so significant to today because he inspired many filmmakers to try out special effects, and create/play with the picture of things. 

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