Say what you like about the addition of contemporary music to silent films, or about the use of digital techniques that stretch “restoration” projects close to the domain of original creation…. But whatever you say, the combination of this “resurrected” copy (as Tom Burton of Technicolor Restoration Services puts it) of Méliès’s Le voyage dans la lune (1902) — which is not a Ted Turner-type colorization job but based on an original hand-colored print — overlaid with music from AIR’s new album (also called Le voyage dans la lune) is just plain awesome!
(Read more about the restoration project here, and check out AIR’s website for the album here)
Reblogged this on Anthropo-eccentrism and commented:
I second Shane’s opinion on this one. I have embedded the full film, because it is simply too fantastic to crop to a single track.