Georges Méliès’ 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon will screen in hand-painted color at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening night. The movie was originally released in black and white and in a hand painted color version.
The fully restored version, 109 years old, was considered lost until the restoration was undertaken by Lobster Films, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage. With today’s digital capabilities, fragments of 13,375 frames were reassembled one by one. New to the film is an original soundtrack by French band AIR.
I certainly hope this gets released because I would absolutely love to see the restoration done to it! I'm extremely jealous of all the Cannes attendees that are going to be witnessing such a fine piece of cinematic history!
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