The Audio Described Films of George Méliès
Silent film classics described for the first time
Spring 2023
Students enrolled in Matt Lauterbach's Spring 2023 Accessible Cinema course at DePaul University described the films of French illusionist Georges Méliès.
Collectively, students described A Trip to the Moon, The Kingdom of Fairies, and several shorts like The Astronomer's Dream, Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and Giants, and The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship.
A public screening took place virtually on June 7, and the students received valuable feedback from Robert Kingett and Cheryl Green of Social Audio Description Collective.
(with audio description and closed captioning)
Image Description: A still frame from the silent film "A Trip to the Moon" showing a rocket capsule embedded in the right eye of the man in the moon, who blinks and sticks out his tongue as blood drips from the impact site.