History of Science Fiction Cinema: The Magic of Méliès and the Birth of a Genre

A little over a year ago, while I was leaving a screening of Martin Scorsese's Hugo, a fantasy film highlighted by, among other things, the works of cinema pioneer Georges Méliès, I overheard a little boy talking to his dad about the film they had just seen.


This boy, probably around nine or ten, was so excited for his father to show him more films by this French magician turned filmmaker.  It felt good to see, in this day and age of cheap and easy entertainment, a child wanting to see more work by a filmmaker that made his last film close to a hundred years ago.

Maybe there is still hope after all. 

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