An Impossible Voyage (1904)
Le voyage à travers l'impossible (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Not Rated
- 24min
- Short, Action
- 29 Oct 1904 (USA)
- Short
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
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Cast
| Georges Méliès | ... |
Mabouloff
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| Fernande Albany | ... |
Madame Latrouille (uncredited)
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Jehanne d'Alcy | ... |
Villager at seaport (uncredited)
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May de Lavergne | ... |
Nurse in Swiss hospital (uncredited)
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Directed by
| Georges Méliès | ||
Written by
| Georges Méliès | ... | () |
| Jules Verne | ... | (play "Le Voyage a travers l'Impossible") |
| Adolphe d'Ennery | ... | (play "Le Voyage a travers l'Impossible") |
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| Georges Méliès | ... | producer |
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| Madame Thuillier | ... | key colorist (uncredited) |
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| Georges Méliès | ||
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- Star-Film (1904) (France) (theatrical)
- Pathé Frères (1904) (France) (theatrical)
- Georges Méliès (1904) (United States) (theatrical)
- S. Lubin (1904) (United States) (theatrical)
- Kleine Optical Company (1904) (United States) (theatrical)
- Image Entertainment (1995) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- BFI Video (2005) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Flicker Alley (2008) (United States) (DVD)
- ARTE (2021) (Germany) (tv)
- ARTE (2021) (France) (tv)
- Kino Video
- Lobster Films (2010) (France) (DVD) (5 VD box: Georges Méliès, le premier magicien du cinéma)
- The Criterion Channel (2023) (United States) (tv) (streaming)
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Before the eminent scientists and members of the renowned geographic society called the Institute of Incoherent Geography, the unconventional and resolute engineer, Mabouloff, lays out his extremely ambitious plans for an unprecedented exploration around the globe. By means of all possible ways of transportation, the enthusiastic travellers start off their impossible voyage from the snow-capped Alps; however, right from the start, calamity strikes. In the end, is man meant to conquer the unfathomable boundaries of earth and space? Written by Nick Riganas |
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Box Office
| Budget | FRF37,500 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
| Trivia | Included in the "Georges Melies: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)" DVD collection, released by Flicker Alley. See more » |
| Goofs | For a few seconds, a pole can clearly be seen holding the anthropomorphic sun up. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Karl May (1974). See more » |