00:00The Astronomers are assembled in a large hall embellished with instruments.
00:15The President and members of the committee enter.
00:19Everybody takes his seat.
00:21Entrance of six-man servants carrying the telescopes of the Astronomers.
00:35The President takes his chair and explains to the members his plan of a trip to the Moon.
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01:18His scheme is approved by many, but one member violently opposes same.
01:28After some argument, the President throws his papers and books at his head.
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01:59Upon order being restored, the trip proposed by the President is voted by a commission.
02:04Five learned men make up their minds to go with him.
02:08The servants bring traveling suits.
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02:34Mr. Barbonfouille selects five colleagues to accompany him.
02:38Nostradamus, Alcofribas, Omega, Micromegas, and Parafaragaramus.
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02:49They enter the interior of a workshop where Smith, mechanics, weighers, carpenters, upholsterers, etc.
02:57are working hard at the completion of the machine.
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03:14Micromegas accidentally falls into a tub of nitric acid.
03:20A workman informs the Astronomers that if they would ascend to the roof,
03:24they would witness a splendid spectacle, the casting of the gun.
03:31The Astronomers ascend to a ladder and climb on the roof where they finally arrive.
03:39Against the horizon, the chimneys are seen belching forth volumes of smoke.
03:44Suddenly, a flag is hoisted.
03:47At the signal, a mass of molten steel is directed from each furnace into the mold for the gun.
03:54The mold pours forth flames and vapor.
03:58This causes much rejoicing among the enthusiastic Astronomers.
04:03On the top of the roofs of the town, pompous preparations have been made.
04:08The shell is in position ready to receive the travelers.
04:14These arrive.
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04:24Respond to the acclamations of the crowd.
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04:38And enter the shell.
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05:07A Marine closes the bridge through which they have passed.
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05:19A number of gunners are now pushing the shell up an incline into the mouth of the gun.
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05:29The cannon is loaded.
05:31The bridge is closed.
05:33Everyone is anxiously waiting for the signal which starts the shell on its voyage.
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05:44The officer gives the signal.
05:46The gun is fired and the shell disappears into space.
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05:57The shell coming closer every minute.
05:59The mood magnifies rapidly until finally it attains colossal dimensions.
06:05Suddenly, the shell pierces the eye of the moon.
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06:11The shell comes down with a crash.
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06:23The Astronomers get out and are delighted at the landscape which is new to them.
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06:40Against the horizon, the Earth is rising slowly into space.
06:45Illuminating the picture with a fantastic light.
06:48The Astronomers inspecting the strange country see craters everywhere.
06:53Just as they are about to explore, an explosion throws the unfortunate men violently in all directions.
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07:09The Astronomers show signs of fatigue after the rough trip they have just had.
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07:20They stretch themselves out on the ground and go to sleep.
07:24Seven gigantic stars, representing the Great Bear, appear slowly.
07:29And out of the stars come faces of women who seem annoyed at the presence of these intruders in the moon.
07:36In their dreams, they see passing in space comets, meteors, etc.
07:43Then, the stars are replaced by a lovely vision of Phoebus on the Crescent,
07:48of Saturn in his globe surrounded by a ring,
07:52and of charming young girls holding up a star.
07:56They decide to punish the terrestrial in an exemplary manner.
08:00By order of Phoebus, snow is falling from all quarters, covering the ground with his white coat.
08:07The cold becomes terrible.
08:09The unfortunate voyagers wake up half-frozen.
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08:18They decide, without hesitation, and in spite of the danger, to descend into the interior of a great crater,
08:26in which they disappear one by one, whilst the snowstorm is still raging.
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08:38The astronomers arrive in the interior of a most curious grotto,
08:43filled with enormous mushrooms of every kind.
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08:52One of them opens his umbrella to compare its size with a mushroom.
08:56But the umbrella suddenly takes root and, transforming itself into a mushroom,
09:01starts growing gradually, attaining gigantic proportions.
09:05The astronomers suddenly notice strange beings coming out from underneath the mushrooms,
09:10while making singular contortions.
09:12These are the Selenites, or inhabitants of the Moon.
09:17A fantastical being rushes on an astronomer who defends himself.
09:22And with a stroke of his umbrella, the Selenite bursts into a thousand pieces.
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09:30A second suffers the same fate.
09:33But the Selenites are arriving in numbers.
09:37The terrified astronomers, to serve themselves, take flight with the Selenites in pursuit.
09:44Succumbing to numbers, the astronomers are captured, bound and taken to the palace of the king of the Selenites.
09:52On a splendid throne, surrounded by living stars, the Selenite king is seated.
09:59President Barbonfouille makes a dash for the king of the Selenites
10:04and, lifting him like a feather, throws him violently on the ground.
10:08The unfortunate king bursts like a bombshell.
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10:19The astronomers run away in the midst of the general disorder.
10:22The Selenite army is pursuing them.
10:25The astronomers run at full speed, turning around each time they are pressed too closely
10:30and reducing the fragile beings to dust.
10:35The still increasing number of Selenites obliges the astronomers to take desperately to flight again.
10:42At last, the astronomers have found their shell and quickly shut themselves in the interior,
10:46thanks to the advance they have succeeded in getting over their adversaries.
10:50Only one, the president, has been left behind.
10:55He rushes to the rope which hangs from the point of the shell
10:58and, letting himself slide down the rope,
11:00he gives it an impetus which causes the shell to fall off the edge of the moon.
11:05A Selenite clinging to the shell to hold it back is drawn with it
11:08and, hanging on the projectile, accompanies it in its trap.
11:18The shell falls with sickening rapidity.
11:20The sea appears.
11:24We continue following the course of the shell into the bottom of the ocean.
11:28The shell balances and, thanks to the hermetically sealed air in its interior,
11:34rises slowly to the surface to the puzzlement of the fishes.
11:39The shell is picked up by a steamer which tows it to port
11:43where a general ovation awaits their happy return.
