They are animals! We will push them back! Drive them down! And they will not get through hese doors.A fierce battle ensued between the charging, heavily-armed primates and humans, and there were huge numbers of casualties on both sides.Pardon my absence.I was not well.But our impending victory has lifted my spirit...I see a great victory.Your enemies will reveal themselves to you." No sooner were her words spoken, that Mathayus, Balthazar and other rebels were approaching, infiltrating, and laying siege to Memnon""s palace.As a film pioneer and producer of over 500 short films, Melies made up and invented the film medium as he directed.The plot was accompanied by a perverse anti-consumerist critique of the mall culture and its mentality.The story was also reprinted in a 1948 collection of Campbell""s work, titledSeven Tales of Science Fiction.