Sunday Cinema, #1

From Georges Méliès, L'Éclipse du soleil en pleine lune (1907)

The sequence that begins about three minutes in is unbelievable. Of course, the eclipse as a sexual coupling of the sun and the moon is an ancient trope, but these two seem somehow out of synch. (A friend to whom I showed this clip described the moon as 'a sarcastic catamite'.)  Anyhow Méliès is simply a genius; without him cinema could easily have remained at the stunted level of development of, say, L'arroseur arrosé.