Voyage dans la Lune
A Trip to the Moon

Film by Georges Méliès (1902)

One of the first and most successful narrative films.

One of the first of the "one reeler" films.

Uses actors, complex scenery, special effects.

Establishes the "shot" as the unit of story telling.

Important definition: a shot is a single stream of images uninterrupted by editing or, traditionally, the images that are recorded continuously from the time the camera starts to the time it stops; an unedited, uncut strip of film.

But, Voyage dans la Lune:
Was essentially a play shot from 12th row center,
Where one shot equals one scene, and
Where the camera never moves.