 He began making his own films with it in May 1896, founded the Star Film Company in the same year, and built his own studio in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis in 1897.His films "A Trip to the Moon" (1902), "The Kingdom of the Fairies" (1903), and "The Impossible Voyage" (1904) were among the most popular films of the first few years of the twentieth century, and Méliès built a second, larger studio in 1907.However, a combination of difficulties—including American film piracy, standardized film prices set in 1908 by the Motion Picture Patents Company, and a decline in popularity of fantasy films—led eventually to Méliès's financial ruin and the closing of his studio.