Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 132. This time we examine the year 1902 as Georges Melies creates and releases one of the first science fiction Films Le Voyage Dans la Lune (the Voyage to the Moon) in France.

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

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Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lumiere-brothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_Robert-Houdin

https://www.melies.eu/English.html

https://whatasker.com/georges-melies/

https://greatestmovies.miraheze.org/wiki/Le_Voyage_dans_la_Lune

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georges-Melies

https://filippazzofrank.medium.com/george-melies-the-grandfather-of-special-effects-e09716f3ead3

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAHcMMOHE8&t=11s

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Photo: 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georges-Melies