Hartmann, Jörg2019-07-162019-07-162009https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4863Fantasies of man travelling into space form a main part of the popular movie genre ‘Science Fiction’. These celluloid visions are not only fantasies of improving transport, they also convey a meaning in a figurative sense. They can be seen as a modern adoption of one of humanities oldest metaphors, ‘life as a sea fare voyage’: the meaning, which was once expressed by this ‘nautical metaphor’, has been transferred and can nowadays be found in films, which show astro-nauts crossing the frontier from known space into the unknown space. In order to conclude on their attitude towards technological progress in the early 20th century, the two oldest space travel movies, Le Voyage dans la Lune (F 1902) and Le Voyage a Travers L'Impossible (F 1904) will be analyzeddeuRaumfahrtScience-Fictionearly cinema791Georges Méliès10.25969/mediarep/4100LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNELE VOYAGE À TRAVERS L'IMPOSSIBLE1868-6648