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Post by Buzz Jetpack on Jan 6, 2023 2:49:39 GMT
Destination Moon is a technicolor beauty with rich, almost painterly primaries, all very uniform, with actors who appear to have been glazed with honey. The space art right is right out of the best science fiction illustration of the day, and the credits even feature technical advisor on the subject to lend a little cred to it all.
I watched it on Re-TV and I appreciated how they stream it in chapters, with the ad breaks in between, interrupting the story at the seams, not mid-sentence in a piece of dialogue.
It's so beautiful to watch you can almost forgive the corny dialogue, the predictable plot, and the stock character acting. Almost.
Consider it was shot in 1949, eight years before Sputnik and thirteen before John Glenn flew rings around the world, but we learn, with Woody Woodpecker, the basics of how reaching the moon might be possible, so "the Science" as the kids say today, is as big a part of the enjoyment as the art and the story.
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Post by ando on Jan 10, 2023 8:40:09 GMT
Destination Moon is a technicolor beauty with rich, almost painterly primaries, all very uniform, with actors who appear to have been glazed with honey. The space art right is right out of the best science fiction illustration of the day, and the credits even feature technical advisor on the subject to lend a little cred to it all.
I watched it on Re-TV and I appreciated how they stream it in chapters, with the ad breaks in between, interrupting the story at the seams, not mid-sentence in a piece of dialogue.
It's so beautiful to watch you can almost forgive the corny dialogue, the predictable plot, and the stock character acting. Almost.
Consider it was shot in 1949, eight years before Sputnik and thirteen before John Glenn flew rings around the world, but we learn, with Woody Woodpecker, the basics of how reaching the moon might be possible, so "the Science" as the kids say today, is as big a part of the enjoyment as the art and the story.
Thanks. Someone recently uploaded it to the Tube -  Destination Moon (1950, Irving Pichel) |
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Post by nipkowdisc on Jun 13, 2023 3:11:56 GMT
the closest thing to a remake I feel is salvage 1 starring Andy Griffith from 1979.
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