the impossible voyage (), originally released in the us as an impossible voyage and in the uk as whirling the worlds, is a 1904 french silent film directed by georges méliès. based in part on jules verne's play "journey through the impossible" and modeled in style and format on méliès's earlier, highly successful "a trip to the moon", the film is a satire of scientific exploration in which a group of geographers attempt a journey into the interior of the sun.