天文学院院长（乔治·梅里爱 Georges Méliès 饰）在一次会议上提出天马行空的月球旅行计划。他和另五名大胆的天文学家监制出了炮弹舱和大炮，并在军队的帮助下乘坐炮弹舱顺利登月。兴奋过后六名天文学家精疲力竭的在月球表面睡去，浑然不知许多星星悄然观察着他们熟睡的样貌。最后一场寒冷的降雪唤醒了他们。众人躲藏到地洞中却不慎用雨伞惊扰了月球人，于是一场慌乱的冒险开始了……
本片是科幻电影的开山之作，灵感来源于儒勒·凡尔纳的小说《从地球到月球》和H·G·威尔斯的小说《最早登上月球的人》。影片于1902年发行了黑白版和手绘彩版，全长约14分钟。后结局与彩版一度失传。1993年，受损严重的彩版拷贝被私人收藏家捐赠给西班牙巴塞罗那电影资料馆；2002年，结局“凯旋而归”在法国被重新发现。影片修复计划持续十余年。
2011年，影片的彩色完整修复版在戛纳电影节首映，以纪念梅里爱诞辰150周年，此时距离影片问世亦已过去109年。

影片一开始，天文学家正在全神贯注的看书，突然一阵烟，撒旦出现在他面前把他吓了一跳。接着，仙女王出现，魔鬼消失，她叫醒天文学家，天文学家准备上前的时候，女王也消失了。天文学家非常兴奋，拿起巨大的天文望远镜想看看是什么使她消失了。月亮出来，吃掉了天文学家的望远镜，天文学家很生气... ...

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.

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The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist. Then, standing in the centre, he causes the living features of his sketch to appear in the place of his own, which is utterly devoid of whiskers. The change is made so mysteriously that the eye cannot notice it until one sees quite another person in the place of the first. Again another sketch is shown on the board, this one being that of a miser; then an English cockney; a comic character; a French policeman, and last of all, the grinning visage of Mephistopheles. It is almost impossible to give this film a more definite description; suffice it to say that it is something entirely new in motion pictures and is sure to please.

在金碧辉煌的宫殿里，贝尔亚瑟王子（Georges Méliès 乔治•梅里爱 饰）正和他心爱的Azurine公主举行婚礼，阴森的老巫婆突然出现，被卫士们赶了出去。
怀恨在心的老巫婆夜晚潜进Azurine公主的寝室，协同手下的魔鬼们将公主劫持。当王子赶到时，巫婆和魔鬼们已腾空而去。王子急忙组织军队准备营救爱人，这时巫婆再次出现，向他展示魔鬼岛上爱人痛苦呼叫的场景。王子百般请求无用，巫婆狞笑离去，正当无计可施之时，黎明女神欧若拉（Bleuette Bernon 饰）现身王子面前，为他组织了强大的战舰和军队。但巫婆再施魔法，用狂风暴雨将王子的战舰打翻。命悬一线的王子，最终能否救回心爱的女人？

The Impossible Voyage (Voyage à travers l'impossible) is a 1904 silent film (produced by Star Film, France) by pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès. The film's time is about 20 minutes (nearly five times the length of the average film at that time), and probably was inspired by Melies' successful earlier film Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon). It is loosely based on Jules Verne's play Voyage à travers l'impossible. Like most of Méliès' films at this time, it made use of narrative, models, and trick photography.

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.

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