Cinémathèque Française - Georges Méliès (Paris, 18-5-2008)

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La Cinémathèque Française is a place for movies, exhibits and research on (French) cinema. It's a great place where you can see old movies and buy them too.
There is a permanent exhibit on the history of films with some truly great examples from the early days.

We were there for the special Georges Méliès (1861-1938) exhibit which was really magical!
You may not know this pioneer but maybe you remember the video for the Smashing Pumpkins song "Tonight, tonight" which was based on one of his best known movies ("Voyage dans la Lune" from 1902).
Sadly not many of his movies survived (he destroyed a lot of them himself) but the ones that did are all fantastic. His special effects are pretty special for the early 1900's.
This exhibit re-opens on the 27th of August so you've still got time to go and see! You can also buy some of Méliès' work on dvd ;-)

The site: http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/la-cinematheque-francaise.html
(also English information!)