Checking out a Moon Girl

We've once again trained our powerful, specially constructed telescope upon the Moon... and as we watched a lounging Moon Girl, we noticed that she was watching us right back! Who can say what this development will bring?!

More of the Moon Girls

 In the ongoing quest to understand the mysteries of the night sky, the researchers at the Shades of Gray Observatory have recently been focusing their efforts of the Moon Girls. As explained previously, the Man in the Moon is just a fiction, but the Moon Girls are real and they keep the lunar calendar accurate. Here's another picture of a Moon Girl at work that was captured by the powerful telescope at our facility.

Checking in with the Moon Girls

The researchers at the Shades of Gray Observatory have captured another image of a Moon Girl making sure everything looks right in the night sky! 

A Moon Girl at Work (in Her Halloween Costume)!

We fired up the telescope at the Shades of Gray Observatory and captured another picture of a Moon Girl, hard at work keeping the lunar phases on track. As is their habit, the Moon Girls wear costumes all of October, because they are firm believers in every night of October being Halloween!

A Moon Girl at Work!

The Man in the Moon is just a figurehead. It's the Moon Girls who keep the waxings and wanings going. Here's more photographic evidence of that fact, captured through the telescope at the Shades of Gray Observatory!

A Moon Girl at Work!

 The expert astronomers and astrologers at the Shades of Gray Observatory have used our powerful telescope to capture another image of a Moon Girl keeping the phases of the Moon on schedule.

A Moon Girl at Work!

Today, we introduce a new special feature. We shall be presenting verified and fact-checker-approved photos taken by through the telescope at the Shades of Gray Observatory. 

Over the next few months, you will see that the Man in the Moon is just a lazy old coot and that it's the hardworking Moon Girls that are keeping the night sky looking just right.

Opium Fiend vs Booze-Stealing Moon Hussy

The Dream of an Opium Fiend (1908)
Starriing:  Jeanne d'Alcy and an otherwise anonymous cast

Director: Georges Méliès

Rating: Eight of Ten Stars

An upper-class drug addict's opium-enduced fantasy turns bizarre and nightmarish.

"The Dream of an Opium Fiend" is one Georges Méliès many "dream sequence" films. Although I prefer the ones where it's unclear if what's happening is a dream or if the main character has been transported to a weird world or is being visited by supernatural beings, I still rank this one among the best of this particular type of Méliès. The trick photography is expertly executed, the mechanical effects are excellently done, and the acting is hilarious. The storyline of the dream is both funny and frightening, something that's befitting of it being a drug-induced hallucination. 

I might have given this film a Nine or even a Ten rating if not for the odd choice of having the beer-stealing Moon Maid descend from her perch on a step ladder instead of by floating. The sudden appearance of the ladder is amusing, but I feel like her descent would have been more impactful if it had taken place through less mundane means.

If you've liked other Méliès films I've written about and featured here on the blog, I think you'll like this one, too. As usual, it's embedded below. It ends rather suddenly, so I think what's survived to this day is missing whatever the original ending was. Still, it's an enjoyable few minutes.