" At he same time, Caesar escaped through an open window when attracted o a neighbor child's bike, where he was assaulted in the next yard by hot-tempered, mean neighbor Hunsiker (David Hewlett) wielding a baseball bat.]Melies wrote the whimsical script, acted in the film in the lead role, designed the sets and costumes, directed, photographed, and produced the film! He hired acrobats from the Folies Bergere o play the lunar inhabitants named Selenites, and the scantily dressed assistants (or pages) who launched the cannon were dancers from the Châtelet ballet.The main ballerina dancer was Irina Boronskaja (Ludmilla Tchérina), and the company's orchestral conductor was Livingstone 'Livy' Montague (Esmond Knight).The apes scampered over rooftops, crashed through offices, saved a captured ape from an Animal Control van, and hurled manhole covers and parking meter poles at approaching police cars.