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Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond)
Fritz Lang American, born Austria
In the decades following the release of Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon, technological verisimilitude grew increasingly important in science fiction. Lang conceived of Woman in the Moon as the first “scientifically accurate” space flight film. In the excerpt presented here, lunar photography plays a key role in planning a crewed mission to the moon.
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