A Trip to the Moon

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul set a course for 1902's seminal space short A Trip To The Moon (aka Le Voyage dans la Lune)! They dissect it as a work of imperialist satire, learn more about director Georges Méliès, and listen to a modern score made for the film by Air. Plus: Which films will we cover for the rest of our space series? Next week our galactic trip continues with Galaxy Quest! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul's Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	The year is 1902 and the greatest threat to extraterrestrial life is the umbrella.
0:07.0	The movie, A Trip to the Moon.
0:09.0	Hello everyone and welcome to unspooled.
0:31.0	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:32.0	And I'm Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we are endeavoring to find the 100 best films of all time.
0:38.0	We've been going through different genres, highlighting films that we absolutely love, films that we feel like might be in a pantheon of being great but actually aren't so great.
0:49.0	And we are on the verge of a brand new mini series and we're going to do things a little bit different.
0:56.0	The new mini series, Amy, is space and I'm very excited about space and what that entails.
1:03.0	And we're going to talk about this towards the end of the episode but we're going to do this series in a way that's going to involve the audience a little bit more.
1:11.0	You are going to be guiding us on this journey almost like we are.
1:15.0	We're like test subjects. We're like astronauts. We're the monkeys that they are sending up there and I know you know a little about the dogs that went to space.
1:22.0	Are you saying I'm going to die? Are you saying we're going to get blasted off into space and I'm going to.
1:26.0	I'm saying there's a chance. There's a chance because we're putting our lives in our listeners hands.
1:31.0	They're going to be guiding us on our entertainment journey so I don't know what's going to happen. It's an experiment.
1:38.0	Well, I guess I guess space is the great experiment. Isn't it?
1:42.0	Yeah, I think so. So we reached out to you about a week ago asking what space movies would you want to send to space and we'll get into that discussion in a little bit.
1:51.0	But first I think we have to start our space exploration at the very beginning. Am I right Amy?
1:57.0	We do. We do the very beginning. Let's go all the way back baby. Let's do the oldest film we have ever done on the show.
2:04.0	All right. Well, I guess let's.
2:11.0	The year is 1902 a monumental year of first in the United States. The first college football game. The Rose Bowl is held in Pasadena.
2:18.0	A newspaper cartoon inspires the creation of the first teddy bear. The first wireless telephone device. The first movie theater in the US air conditioning and the first US president to ride in an automobile.
2:31.0	Plus the Philippine and American war ends.
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