The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

L'Éclipse du soleil en pleine lune

Also known as The Eclipse: The Courtship of the Sun and Moon, El eclipse: El cortejo entre el Sol y la Luna, Eclipse do Sol com a Lua, Eclipse de Soleil en pleine lune

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of young men, all armed with telescopes, about the art of scrutinising an imminent eclipse. When a mechanical clock strikes twelve, all the young men rush to the windows and fix their telescopes on the heavens.