What is the earliest science fiction movie in the world?

The first sci-fi movie was Machine Butcher, which was released in 1895. This cartoon-like scene of a one-minute-long short film shows people that live pigs go in from one end of the machine, and within a few seconds, pork food such as ham, sausage and ribs come out from the other end. This film foreshadows the future automation factory. This satirical theme of large-scale and standardized machine production later became the eternal theme of science fiction movies, and many European and American filmmakers followed suit, making this theme colorful.

1897, a sci-fi movie "A 20th-century surgeon" came out, which predicted transplantation medicine, the human organ at the end of the 20th century. In this two-minute short film, a beggar who lost his legs walked into a surgical clinic and soon planted a pair of living legs, which naturally made him ecstatic. The surgeon is a Frankenstein. He just cut off the beggar's ugly head and replaced it with a head of classical beauty. Even his body was replaced. As a result, the beggar turned into a graceful gentleman and left the clinic happily.

French filmmaker Meris, the founder of science fiction movies, made the world's first film about X-rays in 1897. There is only one scene in this funny short film, which takes place in the laboratory. The professor was played by Meris himself, who took an X-ray of a patient. As soon as the X-ray machine was turned on, the patient's bones appeared, and then he came out of his body. His body lost its support and fell to the floor. Immediately, the operating table was overturned, the X-ray tube exploded and the professor was blown to pieces. The film uses two kinds of special effects: one is double exposure, that is, the separation of bones and bodies, and the other is freeze photography, which separates the professor and blows him to pieces.

The real science fiction movies began in the early 20th century. 1902, Meris, movie master launched a trip to the moon. This film is an epic science fiction film, showing 2 1 minute, which greatly exceeds other films and dazzles the audience. The story of A Journey to the Moon draws lessons from the works of two sci-fi masters at that time, namely From the Earth to the Moon published by Verne 1865 and The First Man on the Moon published by Wells 190 1 year. Wells fantasized for the first time about the indigenous people who lived on the moon with crustaceans. Similarly, Meris put aliens on the screen for the first time. Verne put forward the idea of firing shells at the moon. Meris personally plays the leading role of Professor Bobby Forrest. First, the arsenal cast a huge gun. Then, the astronauts got into the shell, and the cannon crashed, and the shell soared into the sky, quietly sweeping through space and landing on the moon in front of the audience. The lunar explorer walked out of the shell and observed the earth from the moon. Soon, a snowstorm hit, and the expedition hid in a crater and went deep into the hinterland of the moon. In a cave full of giant mushrooms, they were caught by curious aborigines and taken to the king. The earthlings managed to escape and found that once the aborigines who pursued them were hit, they would explode into smoke. The explorer recovered the shell, returned to the earth, fell into the sea from the sky, was rescued by a ship and sent back to Paris. In Paris, explorers were welcomed like victorious heroes, and the mayor personally unveiled a bronze statue commemorating the human landing on the moon.

A Journey to the Moon is regarded as a milestone in science fiction movies. Since then, the content of space travel has emerged in many science fiction movies.

1904, after a trip to the moon, Meris released a space travel film, which was the strangest and most imaginative at that time. It's just that there's a little science missing. Interestingly, this film is so strange that when it was shown in Britain, the exhibitors couldn't name it, so they had to invite public bidding. Finally, the public chose Space Whirlwind from three titles: Through Impossible Travel, Impossible Travel and Space Whirlwind. In this film, Meris once again plays the leading role of engineer Mabolov. The engineer designed a train consisting of a train, an engine, a car, a spaceship and a submarine. With the farewell of everyone in Paris, the train set off with 12 professors and their wives, and the travel route was Paris-Alps-Sun. The train crossed the snow-covered Switzerland, arrived at a station at the foot of the Alps, then took a bus, rushed to the peak at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, and finally fell off a 2000-foot cliff and was rescued by the guide. After the injury healed, the explorers took a strange train, swept the long night sky with the help of a spaceship tied to the roof, and finally collided with the sun and the train crashed. Flames kept erupting from the surface of the sun, and the explorers were so hot that they had to hide in the ice box and were frozen into ice tendons. Mabolov melted the ice and saved them. Then, they dug up the intact submarine from the wreckage of the train and took off to return to the earth with the help of the propeller of the submarine, but unfortunately fell into the sea and dived into the water. Soon, a steam pipe burst, causing the submarine to explode. Fortunately, the explorers were rescued by ships sailing at sea. Finally, they came back victorious.

The film caused such a sensation as soon as it was released that the audience asked Meris to make a sequel. As a result, a huge electromagnetic field appeared in the sequel to the movie, which attracted all the strange cars and ships lost by the explorers during their trip to the sun back to Paris with its powerful magnetic force.

In 19 10, filmmakers and audiences are no longer satisfied with gorgeous imagination and wishful thinking to make the impossible possible. Meris's magical sci-fi cliches are out of date, while more sci-fi and exciting future war films have appeared in black and pink, such as Spaceship Exile, Britain is Threatened, If Britain is Invaded, and so on. These movies turn the imaginary possibility into the possibility, thus touching people's fears. For example, in the field of science fiction movies, the war themes describing space wars and wars between humans and aliens can be traced back to that source.

At this time, the pioneering works of science fiction have also been put on the screen, such as Frankenstein by mary shelley, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Hollow Man of Wales and Two Wan Li under the Sea by Verne. Among them, "Frankenstein" combines science fiction and horror and becomes the origin of these two themes in the history of movies. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Hollow Man (the film titled Invisible Liquid) stripped the evil side of human nature with vivid visual movie scenes for the first time, restored it to the flesh, or covered up the evil of human nature with an invisible coat. They are not only entertainment films, but also warn people that once the magic bottle of human nature is opened by science, the consequences will be unimaginable.

At the same time, the first sci-fi detective films were born, such as "Confused Women and Detectives", "Black Box" and "Dangerous Son". They are characterized by absorbing the techniques of early stunt movies, with compact plot, extremely fast rhythm and thrilling scenes. The tradition of science fiction detective initiated by these films became more prosperous and popular in the 1930s and 1960s.

1908, the first film in film history, Moon Man Looking for the Earth Wife, was born in Britain. In the movie, the moon man invented a huge telescope. He used it to observe the earth, London, St. Paul's Cathedral and people in the street. Loneliness on the moon gave the moon people the idea of finding a wife in London. Then, the hero invented an anti-gravity gas, which floated down from the moon, passed through the atmosphere, and finally landed on the chimney of a girls' school on earth, and climbed into the dormitory of the girls' school by moonlight, but was scared away by the screams of the girls. The moon man drifted into the street again and finally met his Mr. Right. He made the girl take a dose of anti-gravity gas, so they both floated to the ceiling of the house and flew around like flies. His ingenuity finally won the girl's heart. Finally, they flew to the lonely moon for their honeymoon. At the end of the movie, the alien newlyweds snuggled up on a crescent moon in tind. Interestingly, in the future, especially in the sci-fi movies of the 1950s, almost all aliens will need the company of women on earth.