In front of stars

In the beginning of the history of cinema, the audience didn't raise their eyes to look et the stars, they were facing them.

Méliès : A trip to the moon -1902-

These "journeys through the impossible" as Georges Méliès said, trace an history : the history of depth of field.

How did the space of a white canvas become a breathtaking cosmos ?

Let's take some images out of the blackbox to tell this tale.