Now I""ll be back in a couple weeks.You remember how the spirit of your dear departed Ma watches over ya.BackgroundVoyage dans la Lune, Le/A Trip to the Moon(France, 1902), the screen""sfirstscience fiction story, was a 14 minute masterpiece (nearly one reel in length (about 825 feet)), created by imaginative French director and master magician Georges Melies (1861-1938) in his version of the Jules Verne story.Schindler: Well, I""m a German, so there we are.(Schindler pours a shot of cognac into the cap of his flask and offers it to Stern - who declines.) A good company you think?Stern: Modestly successful.Schindler: I know nothing about enamelware, do you?Stern: I was just the accountant.Schindler: Simple engineering, though, wouldn""t you think? Change he machines around, whatever you do, you could make other things, couldn""t you? Field kits, mess kits, army contracts.The musical was budgeted at $703,000 (estimated), mostly because the three production numbers that comprised the last 30 minutes of the film each cost about $10,000/minute, and each of them lasted at least 12 minutes (the length of a reel of film)...At Franklin, Vermont, where I lived until sometime ago.The Franklin papers, both of them, agreed that I had a future.I play all sorts of parts.Hedda, you know, lbsen""sHeddaof course, the old woman inRiders o the Sea, the queen inThe Queen""s Enemiesby Dunsany, and Kitty in Shaw""sYou Never Can Tell.