I remember when my film teacher showed us some of Meleis films :) It made my whole class laugh hysterically for awhile when watching the facial expressions on the sun and moon
I just found it on this website; It's another film directed by Mr. Lang in 1931. For some reason youtube won't let me post the link, so just look for Fritz Lang's "M" (1931) (Part 1 of 12) Public Domain. That page will also give a link to a website where you can download the film.
The facial expressions of the sun and moon leave a lot to be desired. The "wandering stars" female(s) are all one and the same .... Georges Melies beautiful wife and talented assistant.
for all of the little stars falling down at first he will have used a painted cloth on a roll in front of the camera which will have scroled down. for the women flying round, he will have had women flying using the flying system in his studio and then double exposed the film with more shots of people flying so it looks like layers of star people flying everywhere and on top of each other which is why some of them look a little ghosted. Impressive for its era though.
That is correct. The sun and moon are not gay. Melies was a Frenchman. Here we have grammatical gender given literal representatation. This is something lost on those familiar only with the English language. "le soleil", "el sol", or "the sun" is masculine and "la lune", "la luna" or "the moon" is feminine.
You probably have your cursor over the timebar, or on the inferior area of the screen. Make sure you roll your mouse elsewhere and it will disappear. That's the only (I think) explanation. Cheers.
Actually, in French, while the words have gender, the objects they represent most often do not, and may even have the opposite gender. For example, the female breasts and sex organs are represented by male words. Must they be portrayed by men on film? Of course not. In the film, the moon is a young man, with a hairline that is starting to recede into male pattern baldness. It's right there in front of your eyes, and yet so many refuse to see it.