The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)

L'Éclipse du soleil en pleine lune

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.

Date of release
1907-06-06
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (57)
Runtime
9m
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Director
Georges Méliès

Casting

Interesting facts

The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon is a French silent trick film made in 1907 by director Georges Méliès.

Production

Méliès appears in the film as the professor, with the actor Manuel as the class supervisor and Mademoiselle Bodson as a comet. Some scenes in The Eclipse were originally made by Méliès for a film commissioned for a revue at a Paris music hall, La Cigale. Special effects in The Eclipse were created with stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, superimpositions, dissolves, rolling scenery, and a mannequin for the professor's fall.

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