Photography and Special Effects in Early Film

The film “A Trip to the Moon” by Georges Méliès does have some aspects of practices that early photographers used. There was a lot of editing and special effects that photographers used to make their photos how they thought would look perfect, in their eyes at least. Some of the special effects were pretty good for a time when special effects was something hard to create since it wasn’t as easy as it is now and days with computers and so on. I especially like how they made the moons face look like it was crying when they landed on the moon, like saying they hurt the moon with the impact. The special effects weren’t that bad in “A Trip to the Moon” by Georges Méliès especially when they landed on the moon and the guy opened the spaceship door. Main difference between the photographic camera and the film camera is that the film camera captured movement extremely better when the photographic camera didn’t do that so well. Some similarities is that they both showed that there were limits with the old cameras and film camera, both not being able to work in the dark or being able to record for a very very long time or take a lot of photos.