Georges Méliès and the Belle Epoch

Day five...

My dear friend Kramer recommended I watch that Netflix show, Sex Education. I finally got around to it the other night and I was pleasantly surprised to see the kid from Hugo in it. Then I realized the kid from Hugo was touching himself and I felt a little icky.

Anyway, as a kid growing up watching old-timey silent Chaplin and Keaton flicks I was so pleased to have a movie teach me about, well, movies. I knew Georges Méliès from A Trip To The Moon. That. movie is cinemagic lore. Hugo became an instant favorite of mine.

So let’s learn a little more about Georges together…

Georges Méliès: The Magician Who Filmed the Moon

Before Spielberg, before Kubrick, before the first lightsaber ever hummed—there was a Frenchman with a top hat, a magician’s grin, and a movie camera. Georges Méliès didn’t just help invent cinema. He gave it dreams.

Born in 1861 in Paris, Méliès started as an illusionist, dazzling crowds with sleight of hand and stagecraft at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. But in 1895, somethi…