THE ASTRONOMER'S DREAM (1898) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Georges Méliès
An astronomer who looks like a medieval magician peers at the moon through a telescope, and all kinds of strange things happen. This appeared four years before Méliès' most famous movie, "A Trip To the Moon", and you can see some of the visual elements in the later film materializing here. For something shot in 1898, it's pretty amazing.
