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Filming location photo, shot in France, for Hugo (2011). Scene description: Hugo (Asa Butterfield) befriends a bookstore owner Monsieur Labisse (Christopher Lee) and he helps Hugo and Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz) search a for a book on the history of film. They are surprised that the author, Rene Tabard (Michael Stuhlbarg), writes that Georges Méliès died in the Great War (World War I). When they try to understand the reason for this error, Monsieur Tabard himself appears and the children tell him that Méliès is alive. Tabard reveals himself as a devotee of Méliès's films who still owns a copy of Voyage to the Moon.

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