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A Trip to the Moon was tinted by hand

Some prints were hand-tinted by a workshop of women painters Georges Melies released Le Voyage dans la Lune in 1902, and his company produced hand-coloured prints by tinting each frame individually, a slow and costly process. A restored colour version was rediscovered in the 1990s and reconstructed digitally. The film also used multiple exposure and painted scenery. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Some prints were hand-tinted by a workshop of women painters. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.