Writer and creater of Le Voyage Dans La Lun (translatation - a Trip to the Moon),this short film made in 1902 used a combination of camera tricks and studio effects to create one of the first science fiction films, he used effects that amazed audiences and this effects are still being used till this day. He began his career as a stage magician before becoming a film maker. Mellies loved the magic of film making, and with that in mind he used tricks, camera illusions you would say in he film making. On film he could perform many tricks a magician could but even easier with a camera. He discovered what became known as the "mid shot trick" its when you stop the camera in the middle of filming and this would able you to early move an object or person and replace it with something else. He discovered this when his film jammed on one of his early cameras. Also one of his other techniques was the rolling backgrounds, its purpose was in its name it gave the illusion of something falling/flying, and many other techniques.
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