A Marriage in the Moon (1910)
- Original title
- Un matrimonio interplanetario
- Directed by
- Yambo
- Genre
- science fiction, silent film
- Country
- Kingdom of Italy
- Runtime
- 13 min
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An Earth astronomer proposes marriage to a woman from Mars. They travel to the Moon for their wedding, but humanoid aliens attack them there.
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What happens
Un Matrimonio Interplanetario (English: A Marriage on the Moon) is an Italian silent cortometraggio (short film), written and directed by Enrico de’ Conti Novelli da Bertinoro in 1910. The film's story is based on Novelli's novel La Colonia Lunare English: The Moon Colony (1908), published under Novelli's frequently-used pseudonym, Yambo in 1908. Un Matrimonio Interplanetario (1910) is the oldest surviving Italian science-fiction film. In the film, an astronomer from Earth proposes marriage to a young Martian woman. They both use spacecraft to travel to the Moon for their wedding, but they are attacked there by humanoid aliens. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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