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Today in History: First Sci-Fi Film “A Trip to Moon” Debuts

9/1/2026

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On 1 September 1902 France premiered Georges Méliès’s *A Trip to the Moon*, the world’s first science-fiction film. Inspired by Jules Verne’s novel *From the Earth to the Moon*, the trick-film shows astronomers blasting a capsule from a cannon, exploring lunar terrain, confronting Selenites, and returning home.

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On 1 September 1902 France premiered Georges Méliès’s *A Trip to the Moon*, the world’s first science-fiction film. Inspired by Jules Verne’s novel *From the Earth to the Moon*, the trick-film shows astronomers blasting a capsule from a cannon, exploring lunar terrain, confronting Selenites, and returning home.