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When Worlds Collide (1951)
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Gord Green
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's here on youtube !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKc9iucDsA4
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And here in original German language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJSDt89qRB8
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 9:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 1:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll have to hunt down a copy of Riders and check it out. Thanks for the tip, Alltare.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

alltare wrote:
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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.

Yep, itsa Barwa.


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gord Green wrote:
It's here on youtube !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKc9iucDsA4

Not no more.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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! Cool

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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. Very Happy

Click on this image to see the 3000px-wide size!





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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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You're wish is my command, oh exalted one! Cool

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!
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