Before Your Very Eyes

First broadcast 20000509.

 
 
Description
By David Pownall. Georges Melies, the father of film fantasy, paved the way for modern cinema back in 1890s PARIS. In his most famous film, a spaceship in the shape of a cannon shell lands in the eye of the man in the moon. A colourful new play that looks at this dazzling innovator and compulsive seducer who typified the belle epoque. With Henry Goodman and Julian Rhind-tutt. Director: Graham Frost