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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador
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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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The name of the film is wrong - it should be: Weltraumschiff 1 Startet Eine Technishe Fantasie that is in English: Space ship 1 (one) starts a technical fantasy
This is a combination of 2 films ("Incident in Space" by R A Stemmle, and "Spaceship 18" by Eduard von Borsody) that were started in the summer of 1939. Production was halted when war broke out in a few weeks later. Scenes already filmed were knit together by Anton Kutter to make this.
See: www.astronautix.com/articles/theorers.htm
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scotpens Starship Captain
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Gord Green wrote: | The name of the film is wrong - it should be: Weltraumschiff 1 Startet Eine Technishe Fantasie that is in English: Space ship 1 (one) starts a technical fantasy |
That's not quite right either. The full title translates as Spaceship 1 Launches: A Technical Fantasy. "A Technical Fantasy" is a descriptive addition to the main title.
In 1958, publisher Bill Cayton and animator Fred Ladd combined the spaceship scenes with footage from two Russian films to create the animated feature/serial The Space Explorers.
http://www.thespaceexplorers.com/
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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I remember seeing the trailer for the movie, "The Tall Man", and they used the footage of the rocket taking off in the trailer for some reason.
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alltare Quantum Engineer
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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As the unofficial lounge chair expert, you would have to check me on this, but I think those same Barwa chairs were used as the pilots' seats in the meteor-gobbling rockets in RIDERS TO THE STARS. |
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orzel-w Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 1:16 am Post subject: |
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I'll have to hunt down a copy of Riders and check it out. Thanks for the tip, Alltare. _________________ ...or not...
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orzel-w Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 2:17 am Post subject: |
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alltare wrote: | WayneO-
As the unofficial lounge chair expert, you would have to check me on this, but I think those same Barwa chairs were used as the pilots' seats in the meteor-gobbling rockets in RIDERS TO THE STARS. |
Yep, itsa Barwa.
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Maurice Mission Specialist
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:07 am Post subject: |
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Not no more. _________________ * * *
"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
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Maurice Mission Specialist
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:29 am Post subject: |
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So here's a pretty nice write-up the the film:
https://scifist.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/when-worlds-collide/
And here are few more images of the briefly seen planet Lyra.
Sadly, the full panorama is very low rez and I haven't been able to find it bigger.
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 7:52 am Post subject: |
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An excellent article Maurice!
Unfortunately your original jpegs no longer work — but I rigged your jpegs so that the members can still click on each one to see the large size versions!
I recently did that for the pages of Gord's Forbidden Planet article so they were large and easy to read. I realized that the same thing would would work well for your great images, too. _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Pow Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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WWC was a terrific---if overlooked---sci-fi movie from the 50s.
I did think that the matte paintings at the movie's end were weak & artificial looking. |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, according to some sources, the preliminary painting had to be used because they were "running our of time" (a lame excuse for doing a bad job on a movie).
So, we ended up with this —
— which is beautiful in a stylized way (but certainly not realistic), when they should have had something more like this, which I just cobbled together myself.
Click on this image to see the 3000px-wide size!
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alltare Quantum Engineer
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:27 am Post subject: |
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Nice cobbling job, Bud. But don't you think the original intent was to make the panorama more Eden-like.
I would love to see a hi-res version of that original wide screen landscape. |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:50 am Post subject: |
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You're wish is my command, oh exalted one!
Click on the humble 700px wide version below and view the 3,072px wide version! Then click on the new image which appears and you can zoom in close enough to count the pedals on the flowers!
As for the Eden-like nature of Zyra, when I chose that snow-bound image in my alternate version, it occurred to me that there was no way Zyra could have grass and trees growing there so soon! The planet spent millions of years in deep space, colder than a six-pack of Heineken buried under a glacier.
It had only been close enough to the sun to really start warming up in the last few weeks.
And during the approach, the people on the rocket even said the whole area below looked frozen, just before they crash landed on the snow-covered tundra.
So, where did all that manicured landscaping suddenly come from? Undocumented illegal alien lawn-care crews from outer space! _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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