In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.
Georges Méliès
Mademoiselle Bodson
Manuel
The Mummy
La Jetée
Hello, Goodbye
Perhaps
Greek Gossip
The Lure of Crooning Water
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Idle Road
Accordion Joe
The Laws of Thermodynamics
The Cell
Hot Dog Steering Wheel
City Lights
Dragonslayer
The Gold Rush
Nosferatu
Pandora's Box
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