This is only a beginning...

[pyat]

More seriously, about going to the Moon.

Ah, Pre-War Scientific Triumphalism. Sniff. :)

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[zenten.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that movie managed to get to a very unusual combination of eerily predictive, and really badly written/acted.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

It's more "theatrically acted" than "badly acted," IMHO.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Like most of the movies from that era. Thousands of years of theater influence aren't so easily shaken by the addition of close-ups.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I once read a book from the 50s wherein the author claimed that people DID indeed talk and move that way when they were being serious.

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

Man, I will have to rent this or check it out from the library. I saw it ages ago and just blew me away. When was this made? The actors seemed to be shifting from silent acting styles to spoken ones.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

When was this made?

1936.

[mwbard.livejournal.com]

And more recent dreams:

http://manconquersspace.com/MCSMovieClips.html

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Very cool link!

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I still like the future toga-clad guy appearing on a holographic projector to pronounce "Technology sucks! We should destroy everything! Yeah!"

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Devil-take-the-hindmost!

I've quoted that speech out of context, ironically, to people who believed... well... all that.

technicolorMeeps!

[mejeep.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, someday I need to see the complete film. I've only seen stills, small snippets and many references to it. The New York Public Library's exhibit Utopia: the search for the ideal society in the western world (http://utopia.nypl.org/) had a small part playing over and over.