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* EvilTwin: One of Georges' dopplegangers plays an ObviouslyEvil figure in a green costume, who kidnaps Jehanne and tries to make her his own.

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* EvilTwin: One of Georges' dopplegangers doppelgangers plays an ObviouslyEvil figure in a green costume, who kidnaps Jehanne and tries to make her his own.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Georges blushes and assumes the cutest poses when he first sees Jehanne, and later when she kisses him in congratulations for defeating his evil double.

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* {{Adorkable}}: Georges blushes and assumes the cutest poses when he first sees Jehanne, and later when she kisses him in congratulations for defeating his evil double.
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* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The producers wanted to homage Georges' work with a feast for the eyes embodying the often-fantastical nature of his films, and it shows.

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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The producers wanted to homage Georges' work with a feast for the eyes embodying the often-fantastical nature of his films, and it shows.

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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The producers wanted to homage Georges' work with a feast for the eyes embodying the often-fantastical nature of his films, and it shows.

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* StopTrick: Georges' use of this technique is homaged when he makes his EvilTwin vanish in a puff of smoke - which happened several times
in in his actual films, including ''Film/ATripToTheMoon''.

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* StopTrick: Georges' use of this technique is homaged when he makes his EvilTwin vanish in a puff of smoke - which happened several times
times in in his actual films, including ''Film/ATripToTheMoon''.
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* StopTrick: Georges' use of this technique is homaged when he makes his EvilTwin vanish in a puff of smoke - which happened several times
in in his actual films, including ''Film/ATripToTheMoon''.
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''Back To The Moon'' is a two-minute CGI animated short co-produced by Google Spotlight Stories, Cinémathèque Française, and Nexus Studios as Google's first ever [[Main/VirtualRealityIndex virtual reality]] [[Website/{{Google}} Google doodle]]. Celebrating the life and work of legendary filmmaker and illusionist [[Creator/GeorgesMelies Georges Méliès]], it was released on May 3, 2018, the [[MeaningfulReleaseDate 106th anniversary]] of the release of one of his greatest cinematic masterpieces, “À la conquête du pôle” ("The Conquest of the Pole") in 1912. The short stars caricatures of both Georges himself ([[MesACrowd in numerous roles]]) and his love interest (and real-life wife), Jehanne d’Alcy, partaking in a fantastical, 360-degree adventure of spectacle, love, and cinematic magic.

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''Back To The Moon'' is a two-minute CGI animated short co-produced by Google Spotlight Stories, Cinémathèque Française, and Nexus Studios as Google's Website/{{Google}}'s first ever [[Main/VirtualRealityIndex virtual reality]] [[Website/{{Google}} [[LogoJoke Google doodle]]. Celebrating the life and work of legendary filmmaker and illusionist [[Creator/GeorgesMelies Georges Méliès]], it was released on May 3, 2018, the [[MeaningfulReleaseDate 106th anniversary]] of the release of one of his greatest cinematic masterpieces, “À la conquête du pôle” ("The Conquest of the Pole") in 1912. The short stars caricatures of both Georges himself ([[MesACrowd in numerous roles]]) and his love interest (and real-life wife), Jehanne d’Alcy, partaking in a fantastical, 360-degree adventure of spectacle, love, and cinematic magic.
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The full Google Doodle VR experience is available on mobile, Cardboard, or Daydream by via the Google Spotlight Stories app, and can also be viewed without a headset as a 360° video ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEePFpC9qG8 here]]) on the Google Spotlight Stories [=YouTube=] Channel. Google's article about how the film was made can be found [[https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-georges-melies here]].

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The full Google Doodle VR experience is available on mobile, Cardboard, or Daydream by [[https://atap.google.com/spotlight-stories/melies/ via the Google Spotlight Stories app, app]], and can also be viewed without a headset as a 360° video ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEePFpC9qG8 here]]) on the Google Spotlight Stories [=YouTube=] Channel. Google's article about how the film was made can be found [[https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-georges-melies here]].
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-->-- '''Official description on Google Spotlight Stories' [=Youtube=] page'''

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-->-- '''Official description on Google Spotlight Stories' [=Youtube=] [=YouTube=] page'''



The full Google Doodle VR experience is available on mobile, Cardboard, or Daydream by via the Google Spotlight Stories app, and can also be viewed without a headset as a 360° video ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEePFpC9qG8 here]]) on the Google Spotlight Stories [=Youtube=] Channel. Google's article about how the film was made can be found [[https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-georges-melies here]].

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The full Google Doodle VR experience is available on mobile, Cardboard, or Daydream by via the Google Spotlight Stories app, and can also be viewed without a headset as a 360° video ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEePFpC9qG8 here]]) on the Google Spotlight Stories [=Youtube=] [=YouTube=] Channel. Google's article about how the film was made can be found [[https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-georges-melies here]].
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* InvisibleBackupBand: Actually, it's a *visible* backup band made of [[MesACrowd multiple copies of Georges]], whom the man himself brings out to play the background music early in the short.
* IrisOut: Notable as an example in a 360-degree film - if the camera faces the moon at the end, the room fades to black starting from directly behind the camera and moving towards the viewer's direction.



* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: Aside from a few vocal grunts from Georges and Jehanne, background music, and various sound effects, the short is entirely silent. [[JustifiedTrope Then again, of course, it's not like most films in Georges' day]] [[SilentMovie needed any dialogue in the first place.]]



** In the end, TheManInTheMoon reacts this way before Georges and Jehanne's space capsule hits him in the eye [[Film/ATripToTheMoon yet again]].

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** In the end, TheManInTheMoon reacts this way before Georges and Jehanne's space capsule hits him in the eye [[Film/ATripToTheMoon yet again]].again]].
* SealedWithAKiss: Georges and Jehanne share a kiss while sitting on the moon at the end of the film, in reference to how their real-life counterparts eventually became husband and wife.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The producers wanted to homage Georges' work with a feast for the eyes embodying the often-fantastical nature of his films, and it shows.

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''Back To The Moon'' is a two-minute CGI animated short co-produced by Google Spotlight Stories, Cinémathèque Française, and Nexus Studios as Google's first ever [[Main/VirtualRealityIndex virtual reality]] [[Website/Google Google doodle]]. Celebrating the life and work of legendary filmmaker and illusionist [[Creator/GeorgesMelies Georges Méliès]], it was released on May 3, 2018, the [[SignificantReleaseDate 106th anniversary]] of the release of one of his greatest cinematic masterpieces, “À la conquête du pôle” (“The Conquest of the Pole) in 1912. The short stars caricatures of both Georges himself ([[MesACrowd in numerous roles]]) and his love interest (and real-life wife), Jehanne d’Alcy, partaking in a fantastical, 360-degree adventure of spectacle, love, and cinematic magic.

The full Google Doodle VR experience is available on mobile, Cardboard, or Daydream by via the Google Spotlight Stories app, and can also be viewed without a headset as a 360° video ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEePFpC9qG8 here]]) on the Google Spotlight Stories [=Youtube=] Channel.

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''Back To The Moon'' is a two-minute CGI animated short co-produced by Google Spotlight Stories, Cinémathèque Française, and Nexus Studios as Google's first ever [[Main/VirtualRealityIndex virtual reality]] [[Website/Google [[Website/{{Google}} Google doodle]]. Celebrating the life and work of legendary filmmaker and illusionist [[Creator/GeorgesMelies Georges Méliès]], it was released on May 3, 2018, the [[SignificantReleaseDate [[MeaningfulReleaseDate 106th anniversary]] of the release of one of his greatest cinematic masterpieces, “À la conquête du pôle” (“The ("The Conquest of the Pole) Pole") in 1912. The short stars caricatures of both Georges himself ([[MesACrowd in numerous roles]]) and his love interest (and real-life wife), Jehanne d’Alcy, partaking in a fantastical, 360-degree adventure of spectacle, love, and cinematic magic.

The full Google Doodle VR experience is available on mobile, Cardboard, or Daydream by via the Google Spotlight Stories app, and can also be viewed without a headset as a 360° video ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEePFpC9qG8 here]]) on the Google Spotlight Stories [=Youtube=] Channel.
Channel. Google's article about how the film was made can be found [[https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-georges-melies here]].



* TheFaceOfTheSun: Georges impresses Jehanne by inflating a pearl with a face on it he recovered from the underwater sequence to form this.



* MesACrowd: Aside from both Georges himself and Jehanne, every other character is a duplicate of Georges. This is an homage to Georges' technique of filming himself multiple times over the same film strip to give the illusion of being in many places at once, as demonstrated in [[https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-one-man-band/7AHZQj6lKAqupA L'Homme-Orchestre (The One-Man Band, 1900)]].

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* MeaningfulReleaseDate: The Google doodle was released on May 3, the release date of one of Georges' most famous masterpieces, ''The Conquest of the Pole''.
* MesACrowd: Aside from both Georges himself and Jehanne, every other character [[OnlySixFaces is a duplicate of Georges.Georges]]. This is an homage to Georges' technique of filming himself multiple times over the same film strip to give the illusion of being in many places at once, as demonstrated in [[https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-one-man-band/7AHZQj6lKAqupA L'Homme-Orchestre (The One-Man Band, 1900)]].1900)]].
* OffWithHisHead: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] when Jehanne helps save the day by using a giant black card to obscure the body of Georges' EvilTwin, causing his disembodied head to drop to the floor. This is a nod to Georges' method of placing a black cache right in front of the camera to give the illusion of elements disappearing, as seen in [[https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-four-troublesome-heads/1AHeVH1RYMf_Dw The Four Troublesome Heads (1898)]].
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->''The Google Doodle, Google Spotlight Stories, Google Arts & Culture, & Cinémathèque Française teams have collaborated to create the first-ever Virtual Reality (VR) / 360° interactive Doodle to celebrate the life and artistry of French illusionist and film director [[Creator/GeorgesMelies Georges Méliès]]. Produced by Nexus Studios.''
-->-- '''Official description on Google Spotlight Stories' [=Youtube=] page'''

''Back To The Moon'' is a two-minute CGI animated short co-produced by Google Spotlight Stories, Cinémathèque Française, and Nexus Studios as Google's first ever [[Main/VirtualRealityIndex virtual reality]] [[Website/Google Google doodle]]. Celebrating the life and work of legendary filmmaker and illusionist [[Creator/GeorgesMelies Georges Méliès]], it was released on May 3, 2018, the [[SignificantReleaseDate 106th anniversary]] of the release of one of his greatest cinematic masterpieces, “À la conquête du pôle” (“The Conquest of the Pole) in 1912. The short stars caricatures of both Georges himself ([[MesACrowd in numerous roles]]) and his love interest (and real-life wife), Jehanne d’Alcy, partaking in a fantastical, 360-degree adventure of spectacle, love, and cinematic magic.

The full Google Doodle VR experience is available on mobile, Cardboard, or Daydream by via the Google Spotlight Stories app, and can also be viewed without a headset as a 360° video ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEePFpC9qG8 here]]) on the Google Spotlight Stories [=Youtube=] Channel.

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* {{Adorkable}}: Georges blushes and assumes the cutest poses when he first sees Jehanne, and later when she kisses him in congratulations for defeating his evil double.
* BattleCouple: Georges and Jehanne work together to emerge victorious over the former's EvilTwin.
* DefaceOfTheMoon: An homage to [[Film/ATripToTheMoon Georges' use of this trope]] shows up at the end, though the moon itself is ultimately okay with it.
* EyeScream: [[Film/ATripToTheMoon Once again]], TheManInTheMoon gets nailed in the eye by a space capsule.
* EvilTwin: One of Georges' dopplegangers plays an ObviouslyEvil figure in a green costume, who kidnaps Jehanne and tries to make her his own.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Georges floods the entire room in a nod to his technique of filming one scene over another - in a prototype of modern green-screening - turning the camera angle around to look at his backup musicians and projectionist shows them panicking and struggling for air before the water recedes.
* {{Homage}}: The entire short is one big love-letter to Georges' work, featuring plenty of loving references to his designs, film techniques, and innovations in cinematic storytelling.
* TheManInTheMoon: A stylized poster of ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'' can be seen as a background element, and becomes the actual moon in the end - just in time for the space capsule Georges and Jehanne are riding in to hit him in the eye a second time.
* MesACrowd: Aside from both Georges himself and Jehanne, every other character is a duplicate of Georges. This is an homage to Georges' technique of filming himself multiple times over the same film strip to give the illusion of being in many places at once, as demonstrated in [[https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-one-man-band/7AHZQj6lKAqupA L'Homme-Orchestre (The One-Man Band, 1900)]].
* OhCrap:
** When Georges' EvilTwin first appears, TheFaceOfTheSun briefly shows a frightened expression before dropping off the screen.
** In the end, TheManInTheMoon reacts this way before Georges and Jehanne's space capsule hits him in the eye [[Film/ATripToTheMoon yet again]].

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