williamaoconnor &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:williamaoconnor @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:41:31 +0200 Moonland (William A. O'Connor, 1926) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/moonland-1926 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Moonland (William A. O'Connor, 1926)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" Chant At The Moon Day/div div class="img" Moonland (1926)/div div class="caption" Mickey (Mickey McBan) and his dog looking up to the crescent moon from a perfectly round window with beaded curtains made of stars. Spot the Milky Way! DP: Edward Gheller./div div class="txt" A little boy and his dog are invited over by the Man in the Moon himself. The trip to the Moon is a big adventure for the drowsy duo and they meet peculiar flora, fauna and men along the way, lifted straight from the Great Moon Hoax. "You and I may dream of gold or grocery bills — but when a child slaps Morpheus on the back and says 'Hello, old man' — well it's a different story." ### – opening title card\ Post-McCay's serial Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905) and pre-Fleming & Cukor's The Wizard of Oz (1939), William A. O'Connor is heavily indebted to both. Which doesn't make his short Art Deco-styled science fiction fantasy any less magical./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #ChantAtTheMoonDay #Moon #moons #WilliamAOConnor #MickeyMcBan #BynunskyHyman #EdwardGheller #SilentFilm #ShortFilm #fantasy #SciFi #adventure #USA #1920s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Moonland (William A. O'Connor, 1926)

Aug

15

Chant At The Moon Day

Moonland (1926)

Mickey (Mickey McBan) and his dog looking up to the crescent moon from a perfectly round window with beaded curtains made of stars. Spot the Milky Way! DP: Edward Gheller.

A little boy and his dog are invited over by the Man in the Moon himself. The trip to the Moon is a big adventure for the drowsy duo and they meet peculiar flora, fauna and men along the way, lifted straight from the Great Moon Hoax.

“You and I may dream of gold or grocery bills — but when a child slaps Morpheus on the back and says 'Hello, old man' — well it's a different story.”

– opening title card

Post-McCay's serial Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905) and pre-Fleming & Cukor's The Wizard of Oz (1939), William A. O'Connor is heavily indebted to both. Which doesn't make his short Art Deco-styled science fiction fantasy any less magical.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #ChantAtTheMoonDay #Moon #moons #WilliamAOConnor #MickeyMcBan #BynunskyHyman #EdwardGheller #SilentFilm #ShortFilm #fantasy #SciFi #adventure #USA #1920s ★★★★½

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