Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon, from 1902, is one of the earliest films ever made andis classified as an adventure short that runs a brief 14 minutes, standard for the period. But just as ...

It's my own fault. I keep saying filmmakers launched astronauts into space long before NASA did — in 1902 in Georges Méliès' silent comedy A Trip to the Moon — so I can't blame my editors for asking ...