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FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOONby Verne, Jules
Book desription: NY: Scholastic Book Services, 1972 5th Printing. Publisher's glossy pictorial wraps. 12mo. 188 pp. Former owner's initials on fep, else fine. NEAR FINE. A classic of science-fiction, and basis for the first science-fiction film ever made, the 1902 French film Le Voyage dans la lune directed by Georges Melies. It was one of the first and most effective early films to employ special effects, and one of the first films to be widely pirated (by Thomas Edison, who added to his fortune with a stolen print that was very popular in the U. S. ) The shot of a grimacing moon face with a rocket stuck in its eye is one of the most famous images of early cinema. Filmed on many other occasions, the novel was more exhaustively, if less endearingly filmed in 1958 by Byron Haskin featuring Joseph Cotten and George Sanders; and again in 1967 by Don Sharp with an eccentric group that included Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Frobe, Terry-Thomas, and Hermione Gingold. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-93. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2230. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 765 and 768. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978) p. 7. Locke, Voyages in Space 201. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 850-54. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 17. In 333. Bleiler (1978) p. 199. Reginald 14626. Myers 26. Taves and Michaluk V003 and V007. [SBS #T-619]. . Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback.
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