1902: Voyage to the Moon aka A Trip to the Moon

I went back to school today.  Thanks to my stellar class choices I have to read, among other fine works, The Last of the Mohicans and Bridget Jones's Diary.  So that's really exciting.  Yet even with my new reading list I managed to allocate ten minutes to watch Georges Melies' Une Voyage dans la Lune.  Now, I've seen this silent sci-fi masterwork before under much better circumstances.  I was fortunate enough to catch this at an old, historic ...