George Melies was an innovator in early special effects for films, popularizing techniques like multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, and hand-painted color. He created one of the first science fiction films, A Trip to the Moon in 1902, which told a story of a rocket trip to the moon and encounters with aliens. Through stopping and restarting the camera, Melies pioneered basic film editing techniques to transition between scenes. He died in 1938 at the age of 76 after a career advancing special effects and surreal storytelling in early cinema.

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2. He was a innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as
substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-
painted colour.
In this clip the special effects used is
the moon and the rocket they never
had zoom back then so they had to
move the moon toward the camera
and use a pie for the splat of the
landing.
In this clip the special effects used is to make his head
disappear on to the table.

3. George melies created editing by stopping the camera and
starting it again to form a cut. Méliès died of cancer on 21
January 1938 at the age of 76. His films include A Trip to the
Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904), both
involving strange, surreal journeys.

4. The plot of the story is that they make a plan to go to the
moon so they build a rocket to fly there and explore. They
also need to escape from aliens on the moon and make it
back to earth.

5. In a trip to the moon George Melies editing was amazing back then, he stop the camera
and continued it again to make a cut.
That’s how he got
from one scene to
another