The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)

This film is fantastic in all senses of the word. An astronaut lands on the moon, only to discover it already inhabited by men who presume, based on his spacesuit, that he is a moon man. Among them is Baron Munchausen who takes the astronaut Tonik to 18th century Turkey and that is just the beginning of their adventures together. The entire spectacle is presented in a color tinted mixture of live action and animation. The film is very reminiscent of the most famous works of Georges Méliès , though the directions this film goes with the colors and animation styles are beyond anything Méliès could have dreamed about sixty years earlier. There are few films that are this artistically beautiful. <img src=”http://movingpictures.plur.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/postfantasy.gif” alt=”Fantasy” height=”25″ width=”25″>