Makers of History

Story

A modern explorer travels to the Moon. He wants to surprise the ‘moon men’ with something typical of our world. The moon men already possessed that.

Humor

People on the moon? "Ha ha ha, that's never going to happen!" In 1955, of course, people knew that it was 'impossible' to travel in space. It was therefore fun to fantasise about it. Funny film with a fictional image of travelling to the moon.

Hungarians

Animator/director Gyuala Balàzs clearly came from the same 'creative nest' as Joszef Miszik. They both came from Hungary in the wake of George Pal, a filmmaker who fled Hungary to the Netherlands when the Nazis were advancing in that country. So both animators had been working together since the mid-1930's.
George Pal would move on to safer America in the late 1930s. Misik and Balàzs remained in the Netherlands.
Both Hungarian animators had a minimalist animation style. The movements are often very tight, sometimes looking a bit mechanical. Yet there are examples of both Misik and Balàzs being able to animate more natural movements.

Trivia

Gyuala Balàzs has creatively long stood in the shadow of his colleague and compatriot Joszef Misik, while the artistic level can certainly be called equivalent.
An unintended similarity between the two Hungarians is that both men's names were spelt differently. Clearly, the Dutch in the 1950s were not used to names of foreign origin. Incidentally, Jules Balázs and Gyuala Balàzs are the same person. On the title card, he is called J. Balázs.