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The Impossible Voyage - Techno+FX Edition
This film is 120 years old this year!
It is the only-slightly-lesser-known Georges Méliès science fiction film,
"Voyage à Travers L'Impossible" which might be regarded as a sequel to his
"Trip to the Moon". Join the elite company of the Institute of Incoherent
Geography on their exciting (and frankly silly) 1904 voyage, across the
mountains, through the occasional building, and right into the mouth of the Sun.
The film itself is scanned from a hand-colored original, and is presented
in "pillar-box" 720p format to show the entire original frame (I might do
a tilt-scan version later). The original file was from Wikipedia.
Of course, this was originally a silent film, which would've typically been
presented with musical accompaniment. I have sweetened the deal with a
selection of free-licensed modern music, featuring Graveyard Child Escape
(techno), Grégoire Lourme, and Gotika; along with a large array of sound
effects from FreeSound.org (and other sources), under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (Attribution to "Terry Hancock" is fine.
Credits for the music and effects are included at the end).
Please share as widely as you like, and if you want to say thanks, support
my other projects, or pitch in to help out the Internet Archive, FreeSound,
and other stewards of the Public Domain, so we can keep making things like
this.
There is also a Making of Impossible Voyage Techno/FX Edition Timelapse.
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By This film is 120 years old this year!
It is the only-slightly-lesser-known Georges Méliès science fiction film,
"Voyage à Travers L'Impossible" which might be regarded as a sequel to his
"Trip to the Moon". Join the elite company of the Institute of Incoherent
Geography on their exciting (and frankly silly) 1904 voyage, across the
mountains, through the occasional building, and right into the mouth of the Sun.
The film itself is scanned from a hand-colored original, and is presented
in "pillar-box" 720p format to show the entire original frame (I might do
a tilt-scan version later). The original file was from Wikipedia.
Of course, this was originally a silent film, which would've typically been
presented with musical accompaniment. I have sweetened the deal with a
selection of free-licensed modern music, featuring Graveyard Child Escape
(techno), Grégoire Lourme, and Gotika; along with a large array of sound
effects from FreeSound.org (and other sources), under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (Attribution to "Terry Hancock" is fine.
Credits for the music and effects are included at the end).
Please share as widely as you like, and if you want to say thanks, support
my other projects, or pitch in to help out the Internet Archive, FreeSound,
and other stewards of the Public Domain, so we can keep making things like
this.
There is also a Making of Impossible Voyage Techno/FX Edition Timelapse.