I recently watched Le Voyage Dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) a film created by Georges Méliès in 1902. I've watched quite a few silent movies in my time as I went to a media focused campus and would rent out films for free. However, I'd never seen this one.
The film is only 13 or so minutes long but the tale it tells of man's dream of reaching the moon is great.
The acting is broad, as silent movie tended to be to show emotions clearly, but the matte art, set design and choreography of movement across the stage and 'special effects' make it a masterpiece.
The actors must have had a laugh filming this enthusiasm comes through on film. I imagine that for a person watching this in their youth seeing this dream realised, when man actually land on the moon 67 years later in 1969, it must have seemed astonishing!