The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

1907

  

6.1 / 10

  • fr
  • Comedy, Fantasy, Romance,
  • 9 mins
Overview

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.


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