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The background of the first science fiction film
Rachelle 2022-10-07 17:08:03
In the 19th century, mankind entered an era dominated by scientific inventions and technological revolutions. At this time, the rise of European industrial civilization followed the rise of science fiction literature. Due to the progress of science and technology, the future science and technology are naturally entrained in the literary and artistic themes that discuss the future of mankind. At the end of the 19th century, science and technology developed rapidly, electricity was widely used, and trains and automobiles were mature and popular. After the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 to the period before the First World War in 1914, France's economy, culture, technology and popular entertainment developed rapidly in a period of peace, coupled with the prosperity of French science fiction literature in the mid-19th century, two important European science fiction writers at the end of the 19th century—— The appearance of Frenchman Jules Verne and Englishman Herbert George Wells laid the foundation for the birth of the first sci-fi film in France. Méliès was clearly a fan of science fiction, and he was deeply influenced by the nascent science fiction literature.
