"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Melies's A Trip to the Moon Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Melies's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of...