A treat for cineastes and sci-fi fans alike.

Melies was a true visionary and pioneer who shall always be remembered as will A Trip to the Moon, as partly where everything we love as film fans and dramatists began.

Melies was clearly pushing boundaries and demonstrating the potential for narrative storytelling, searching for product that couldn't be emulated by the stage.

This is live-action film, but transformed by Méliès's ingenious in-camera editing and those gorgeous paints to be something more like a cartoon. It's gorgeous, it's ludicrous and it's heaps of fun.