Méliès was an early film innovator after accidentally discovering the remarkable effect
of film editing. He initially showed simple records of everyday life, but when a film roll
got stuck in the projector once, a bus in the street scene shown suddenly turned into
another vehicle, and women into men.
Then Méliès began experimenting with editing, optical illusions and use of color in
short, narrative films. Famous is the example from Le Voyage dans la Lune from 1902,
in which a rocket seems to land the moon with a clever cut.
Although Méliès made hundreds of films that were particularly popular worldwide, most
of them were lost: recycled in World War I, destroyed by Méliès when his theater
closed or perished due to the fragile film material. No more copies of Gugusse were
known either.
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