Love by the Light of the Moon (1901)

Directed by

Edwin Stanton Porter

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short film combines live action with animated slides of the moon to tell a simple love story.

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What happens

Love by the Light of the Moon is a 1901 film by Edwin S. Porter, produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company. It mixes animation and live action and predates the man in the Moon theme of the 1902 French science fiction film A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès. The animation is provided by projected slides showing the Moon's different faces. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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