Rêve à la lune, also known as L'Amant de la lune, is a 1905 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and Gaston Velle, and distributed in English-speaking countries under the titles Dream of the Moon (World-wide, English title), The Moon Lover (United States) and Drunkard's Dream or Why You Sign the Pledge (United Kingdom).

He first sees himself surrounded by gigantic bottles with human forms with which he executes a frenzied quadrille, then he falls asleep on his bed.

While he sleeps, he believes himself on a public square, under the benevolent glance of the Moon of which he is immediately enamored.

Still wanting to catch the Moon, he hangs on to the pipe of a chimney that wobbles under his weight.

Suddenly a hurricane rises and carries our man into space, still straddling the pipe he has not abandoned; he thus crosses miles through the clouds, while the storm rages around him.

Once in the ethereal zones, ready to reach the object of his covetousness, the Moon itself moved by his efforts approaches him and grants him hospitality.

But the Moon does not seem to share the enthusiasm of its visitor, and after some grimaces of disgust, it spits him out in the vacuum and he tumbles down with a vertiginous speed to fall finally in his bed, where he wakes up all bewildered by his strange nightmare.

A room with a table with a bottle on it, a large clock on the wall, a coat hanger and a bed.

Cross-fade: the scene changes to a street at night, the bed turns into a bench and the clock into the Moon.

This special effect uses a tracking shot with a camera filming a horizontal set from above.

A reasonable hypothesis for the existence of these two version seems to be that the original copy had been damaged by too much use and as there was still demand for the film a new shooting was organised.

Given that L'Amant de la lune [The Moon's lover] appears on the original film poster, while only Rêve à la lune [Dream of the Moon] appears in the Pathé catalogue, it seems likely that the former title was the original one and that it was eventually modified because of a sexual connotation regarded as unsuitable.