luna2 &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:luna2 @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:50:39 +0200 Un matrimonio interplanetario [A Marriage in the Moon] (Enrico Novelli, 1910) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pmlb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Un matrimonio interplanetario [A Marriage in the Moon] (Enrico Novelli, 1910)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" Луна 2 – 1959/div div class="img" Un matrimonio interplanetario (1910)/div div class="caption" Aldovin (director and author of La Colonia Lunare (1908) meets his lovely Martian fiancée halfway, on the Moon./div div class="txt" To commemorate the launch (not landing) of the Луна 2 aka the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket on September 12, 1959, we present The Moon. &nbsp; According to Wikipedia, Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to touch the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body. Well, Enrico Novelli went there first… "Mars Daughter, You are fine. I am loving you and I should like very much to marry you." ### – Aldovin, Terrestrial Astronomer (Aldovin's radiotelegraph to Mars), via …and what an adventure he had! An Earth gentleman points his telescope at the red planet, only to spot a beautiful Martian princess. He promptly falls in love and lo and behold! it's mutual! That asks for an instantaneous wedding halfway, on the Moon, and nothing can stop them! /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #Luna2 #EnricoNovelli #Yambo #moons #Mars #adventure #ShortFilm #SciFi #romance #SilentFilm #BookAdaptaton #Italy #1910s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

Un matrimonio interplanetario [A Marriage in the Moon] (Enrico Novelli, 1910)

Sep

12

Луна 2 – 1959

Un matrimonio interplanetario (1910)

Aldovin (director and author of La Colonia Lunare (1908) meets his lovely Martian fiancée halfway, on the Moon.

To commemorate the launch (not landing) of the Луна 2 aka the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket on September 12, 1959, we present The Moon.

 

According to Wikipedia, Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to touch the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body. Well, Enrico Novelli went there first…

“Mars Daughter, You are fine. I am loving you and I should like very much to marry you.”

– Aldovin, Terrestrial Astronomer (Aldovin's radiotelegraph to Mars), via

…and what an adventure he had! An Earth gentleman points his telescope at the red planet, only to spot a beautiful Martian princess. He promptly falls in love and lo and behold! it's mutual! That asks for an instantaneous wedding halfway, on the Moon, and nothing can stop them!

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #Luna2 #EnricoNovelli #Yambo #moons #Mars #adventure #ShortFilm #SciFi #romance #SilentFilm #BookAdaptaton #Italy #1910s ★★★★★

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