Georges Méliès' early films, such as the fairy tale “Le Royaume des fées”, coloured by hand frame by frame, are a unique baroque visual spectacle in which the French grand master of early cinema reaches the peak of his imagination. ‘Le Voyage à travers l'impossible’, on the other hand, is a parody of the scientific travel literature of the time, in which a geographical society with the eloquent name “Institut de géographie incohérente” embarks on a journey around the world that is to surpass all previous expeditions of the learned world in terms of imagination and fantasy.