An Adventurous Automobile Trip was one of the most ambitious productions of Georges Méliès. Originally intended for presentation as part of a hybrid theater-film performance at the Folies Bergère in Paris in 1904, the film was released in both black-and-white and color versions the next year. Méliès used all of the technical resources at his disposal - including superimpositions, trick explosions, surprise cuts, and selective red stenciling - to make this parody of the high-speed road journeys of King Leopold II of Belgium spectacular. The idea, espoused by Méliès in subsequent decades, of cinema as the art of metamorphosis in both space and time is manifest throughout.