![]() The script was adapted by Nigel Kneale, the British writer who attained fame in the 1950s for his Quatermass tv plays and the Hammer films adapted from these. (See the bottom of the page for Ray Harryhausen’s other films). Schneer, who had just come from acclaimed classics such as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963). The First Men in the Moon was mounted by American stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen and his producer Charles H. Wells’s social parable and exploration of the idea of how a society might be formed along the lines of an insect hive. Certainly, there is little to be seen here of H.G. ![]() ![]() So it remains to this to offer a definitive version of the story although, as it transpires, by no means any more serious a one than Melies’s burlesque version, which had the ship being loaded into a cannon by dancing girls. The story was also filmed in Britain as The First Men in the Moon (1919), although this version has been lost today and does not even exist as stills any longer. ![]() The story was stolen and never credited by Georges Melies for the basis of his seminal science-fiction film A Trip to the Moon (1902), albeit given a much lighter treatment than Wells did. ![]() Wells’s lesser known classics, a book where Wells used the theme of lunar exploration to create a nightmare parable about ergonomics and adaptive evolution. The First Men in the Moon (1901) was one of H.G. ![]()
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