"the impossible voyage" was made during the summer of 1904. the film, running to 374 meters, was méliès's longest film to date, and cost about 37,500 (7,500) to make. in its staging and design, the film is symmetrical with méliès's "a trip to the moon": while the astronomers' progress toward the moon in that film is consistently depicted as left-to-right motion, the institute of incoherent geography's progress toward the sun in "the impossible voyage" is consistently right-to-left. while most of the film was shot inside méliès's glass studio, the scene at the foot of the jungfrau was filmed outdoors, in the garden of méliès's property in montreuil, seine-saint-denis.