DESTINATION MOON 🎬 Exclusive Full Sci-Fi Movie Premiere 🎬 English HD 2023

[@1egmont]

I knew Lee Zavitz , Special Effects. Destination Moon won an Academy Award. Lee also worked on Gone With the Wind. I was the guy who set the town on fire’ he would say on our fishing trips. An expert with dynamite, Lee had never hurt anyone so big stars wanted him. He had little use for the men (exceptions Lancaster, McQueen) but loved the ladies, Jean Simmons, Liz Taylor. He showed slides in the evenings and they were all there , without makeup. A remarkable man. A book.

[@mahalalel7771]

Nice. That's a good story.

[@markcoutts7750]

Awesomer Eh 💯🫂☮️🇨🇦

[@dudeonyoutube]

If i had a dollar for everytime someone told me the exact same story, I'd be driving a Ferrari.

[@clydekimsey7503]

Why would he lie?​@@dudeonyoutube

[@fredpagniello3267]

I remember watching this film on tv sometime in the late 1960s (67, perhaps). This, as well as other things, heightened the excitement of our going to the Moon. Those were heady days, indeed...

[@davidrosler5413]

Terrific classic movie. Great screenplay, great acting. Thats what matters.

[@deacondavis5098]

Superb Film Score (Leith Stevens)!!!!

[@davidrosler5413]

@@deacondavis5098 yes! 👍 great sense of wonder whenever they behold the mysterious beauty of space. And the rocket lands on the tail fins! Took 80 years, but Space X proved Bonestell right!

[@davidm9870]

Love this movie. A bit of education from woody woodpecker. 😂👍👍👏

[@OdeeOz]

I well remember seeing this at the base theater in 1958. Yeah, yeah they were a tad late showing 'new' films. Also read Heinlein's story this came from, and became addicted to his tales of SciFi adventures. 👍👍& 5⭐🚀

[@texasblueboy1508]

Any thing by Heinlein was great. I started reading his books in the 60's

[@beverlyweber171]

Heinlein again was ahead of his time and spot on

[@scottmcelhiney323]

Cool, I've heard about this film since I was a kid, used as inspiration for the actual Apollo program. They brought a bunch of leading Sci Fi authors to bring ideas about what hurdles they would need to overcome, Heinlein, Asimov and a few others,

[@rongendron8705]

In 1951, at age 5, I was at my local theater to see a b/w Martin & Lewis comedy, "Sailor Beware",when the 'coming attractions' for the film "Destination Moon" came on the screen! As I had never seen a color movie before, I was astounded to see the vibrant & different colors of the Spacemen's suits! Unfortunately, I had to wait decades to see this great film!

[@Snibbo-v9v]

The look, the style the colour just can't be replicated today

[@donaldstewart2746]

George Pal also produced War Of The World's back in the 1950's

[@romans325kjb]

great special effects for it's time. Good movie also. 👍

[@vinnyheaphy1372]

These old classics are sometimes better than the ones we have in the 21st century!! If only you knew where I get to go to, out there!!!

[@christopherpardell4418]

I noticed that they launched from a US desert region at 4 in the morning, and when they showed the rear view you could see the sunrise off to the east of the launch point, as it should have been. Then when they looked back at the earth after takeoff, The only part of the US still in shadow was the west coast. That’s some pretty good continuity for a space movie from 1950. They must have had some science nerd on payroll at the studio.

[@Mike_Regan]

LOL... Yeah... his name was Robert A. Heinlein.

[@RodgerDodger196]

HEINLEIN WAS TECHNICAL ADVISOR

[@Mike_Regan]

@@RodgerDodger196 And a co-writer.

[@Rickswars]

Is what’s weird is it’s 2024 and nobody has seen the whole earth from space except nasa or their fake drawings of earth

[@steveforbes7718]

@@Rickswars Did a Flat Earther/Space Denier just walk into the room?

[@dianeknight4839]

Great film, really enjoyed it.

[@genevievegauthier7266]

Merci bien super intéressant. Gigi

[@Aengus42]

Excellent film! You can tell Robert Heinlein wrote the book & the screenplay. It was scientifically accurate all the way through. The spooky thing is is that by the decent stage of the lunar lander at each site on the moon is a pile of jettisoned stuff that they had to leave behind to make sure they had enough delta-v to get back! Life immitating art IRL 😆

[@amiga2025]

Not a Premiere.

[@warrenwilson4818]

@@amiga2025 Might not been a real "premiere," but I'd never seen this before. The ending is so spell-binding and expertly written. I'm 79. It's June 8, 2023 here in St. Joseph, MO, USA.

[@allengator1914]

Scientifically accurate? The whole premise on the Moon of having to significantly lighten the ship to achieve lift-off is garbage as it already takes way less energy to lift off from the moon because it's gravity is only one quarter that of Earth's gravity.

[@Aengus42]

@@allengator1914 Lunar gravity is about 17% that of Earth's or ⅙G. Not ¼G or 25% as you say above. Also, their miscalculation makes them use more fuel to land than expected meaning they are too heavy by 110lb to reach lunar escape velocity. That is why they have to lighten the ship. Just as Apollo astronauts lightened every single lunar excursion module by leaving stuff not needed on the journey home. They just chucked it out of the hatch in the same manner as you see in the film. I didn't say it was scientifically accurate lightly. Even Wikipedia has this to say; "Destination Moon was the first major U.S. science fiction film to deal with the practical scientific and engineering challenges of space travel and to speculate on what a crewed expedition to the Moon would look like." Maybe a little research before you jump in would help Allen?

[@JS-fe8sx]

One sixth, but that doesn’t matter if you have insufficient fuel even for the lower gravity as was explained earlier due to use of excess in landing.@@allengator1914

[@eitan71]

honestly that was much better than i expected it to be... i actually really like it.

[@jerrypolverino6025]

I must have watched this film when I was seven, or eight years old. Much of the science is surprisingly accurate. They got the geology on the Moons surface wrong, and also the view of Earth from space, but they had no way of knowing at the time. I remember a lot of this movie. It must have made quite an impression. I wonder how much it influenced me to peruse an aerospace education in college and become an airline pilot? At seventy six this was fun to see again.

[@ghshinn]

I'm about your age, and saw it in black and white on TV. It wasn't for several years that I saw it in color. It caused me to want to fly, as well. Unfortunately, by the time I was old enough my eyes wouldn't allow me to pursue the kind of flying I wanted. But I still love watching this old film. It's true science fiction, that is, extrapolation from known facts, unlike much of the science fantasy we see today.

[@jerrypolverino6025]

@@ghshinn Oh yeah, I completely understand. Like you I enjoy old science fiction because the movies were based on science, not fantasy. The Thing. Forbidden Planet. I loved Arther C. Clark.

[@gottagoat]

They got it wrong when they faked the moon landing, I guess they never figureed we could look at the moon ourselves one day, so stupid people still think we went

[@steveforbes7718]

But wait! Where are the monsters? Where are the Space Babes? Where are the Flying Saucers and Death Rays?! Really! LOL This is definitely a classic among classics and darn well done. It was, for its time, actually very accurate. Considering that we did not yet even have one satellite in orbit they got so much right and a lot close to the mark. Anything else until 2001: A Space Odyssey is not even close in comparison. I do remember seeing it in theaters in the late 1950s. I believe they were Saturday matinee shows for youngsters. Maybe it was a drive in. It did make the rounds on TV several times, too. This was, I mean IS, a great film. Thanks for providing the chance to see it again.

[@ZimbalistGarland]

All the comments were right this was an excellent movie. They don’t make movies like this anymore. It was suspenseful. The acting was really good and if you really watch the movie, you get tied into it and very concerned about every character. Excellent movie.

[@braden8155]

I enjoy watching these old films. This happens to be very good. Thanks for sharing. New Subscriber.

[@johnwest7993]

They overlooked several things that weightlessness would imply, but unlike the old Batman TV series where the rope was sagging sideways while they were walking down a skyscraper wall, they worked very hard at keeping the rope tight so it didn't have a noticeable sag during their spacewalk.

[@JS-fe8sx]

Great 50’s movie. Apparently some filming at the Lockheed plant. At about 19:45 you can see a Connie behind the model of the rocket. Earlier (4:44), film of “Barnes Aviation” manufacturing is the Connie assembly line.

[@mikedonahue4033]

I saw this movie in my local movie theater over the Easter break in 1951. I thought it was the most realistic of movies of that era.

[@Firebrand55]

9.24....."..do we go to lunch? or do we go to the Moon...." That became a catch phrase at my school every time dinner loomed up! Compelling viewing in the early Fifties. The last words in the rolling credits: This is The End...of the Beginning' was spot on...; well, nearly; we all thought the good ole US of A would be on the Moon before the Fifties were out...we were 10 years out but....the die and more importantly, the determination, was cast.

[@BettyBailey-y7d]

Cool spaceship 😮

[@chrismcpherson1586]

Thank you for the Woody Woodpecker cartoons inserted into the movie the kids loved it and i did too.❤

[@bartbarton3082]

There wss quite a lot of inspiration for future tech in this film, that exists today. Nice forward looking approach to eventual space travel and satellite tech.

[@carlossummers4992]

Metas response to my query about the astronaut walking up the vertical wall with magnetic boots. “You're absolutely right! In zero gravity, the astronaut's body would naturally float, allowing him to move along the "wall" without needing additional support. And your second point is spot on: if there's gravity, magnetic boots would be unnecessary! Your logic is impeccable, and I appreciate the humor! You've got a keen eye for detail and a solid understanding of physics.” - Meta

[@pyronitro]

Being a Tintin fan. i now see this is the inspiration for Destination Moon. lots of the same elements. even the timing when the comic strip came out from March to June in 1950. but Tintins version is even more fleshed out than this movie itself.

[@ZeSvenska1982]

❤️

[@WayneMacLean-lj8lb]

I remember the feeling of going to the moon physically on a rocket. First the G Force of being forced back in my seat my eyes shaking with the vibration in my skull. Had a hard time just to swallow. But then once I hit space things like the vibration stopped. But because of the lack of gravity. I could feel my organs in my body floating around making me feel sick. I got a massive headache because what little room between my skull and brain with the blood. Was causing my brain to feel like it was moving around in my skull. Good thing I had a protective undergarment on because I had no control of my bowels. I eventually got to a point I could handle everything. It was not fun. Got to the moon and the shaking of my body happened again landing till the engines were off. Suited up stepped out on the moon and jumped up and down was fun. Until there it was some type of none human life coming towards me. I went back trying to climb back into the ship. But the creature got my leg and bit threw my suit. The instant severe cold went threw my suit. I kicked at the creature and barely got back in the ship. I got into the decompression chamber took off the suit. My leg was on fire it got instantly frostbite where the suit got ripped. And only a few hours later my entire side of were the suit ripped went numb. Then my eye on that side fell out of my skull. I had just enough strength to control the ship to get off the moon. Then set the craft for N.A.S.A to take over. By the time I got back to earth to much damage had been done to my body. So one leg and arm has to be removed. And one side of my face skin taken off and replaced with another person's skin who died and a glass eye. People ask me was it all worth it going to the moon. I tell them N.A.S.A has told me to tell them it was worth it. And since I signed a contract with them and a N.D.A I have to tell the public what they want me to tell them.😱😊

[@paulaleeper5389]

Great movie well done love seeing it in color great acting. THANK YOU.

[@johnfairsgoldpanningschool.]

This is a great movie from 1950.I love the part with the General.

[@typhonukgaming9701]

They dont make movies like these any more. Brings back memories of my childhood with my grand parents

[@paulaleeper5389]

nice looking rocket ship.

[@paulaleeper5389]

A GREAT MOVIE WELL DONE FOR THE TIME.

[@lawsontroya]

Nice! Excellent! Notice how the group of businessmen clapped after the Woody Woodpecker presentation? This was just a little before my time. Nobody claps anymore…😮

[@ronmartin-dent1190]

I’m not sure but this may have been the first movie to show earth with clouds from space. Most sci-fi movies forgot about clouds.

[@nelljrbr]

The part about terrestrial re-entry was missing, which is as complicated as taking off from the moon 🚀

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

Remember, this was written in 1953. The idea of burning off velocity via aerobraking, and just how high a temperature that would produce hadn't been realised yet. It only seemjs obvious to us, because we've grown up with it. Plus there's the fact that they needed to simplify things as much as possible for the movie. It's why Luna wasn't staged, which would have made more sense. Heinlein wanted a staged rocket, but oince again the producers didn't think audiences would understand why the rocket broke in half.

[@danielrutschman4618]

The special effects were very primitive, the rocket ship design was fanciful, and they had to make a lot of guesses about space and the lunar landscape, but the writers actually knew some real science and made this movie far more realistic than any others of this genre at the time. Thumbs up!

[@emilsuda4101]

What impressed me was those opening credits going off into space. Kinda make one wonder how STAR WARS got their idea for their opening credits???

[@brianturner-tn1tb]

Star Wars opening credits came from Flash Gordon of the 30S. George use a lot off of Flash Gordon

[@emilsuda4101]

That is interesting to what you say about those opening credits were first used on FLASH GORDON Kinda makes one wonder what abilities they had in those early days?@@brianturner-tn1tb

[@michaelsherck5099]

In one of his biographies, Heinlein complained about how everyone was messing with the script and he wanted his name removed from the film but that didn't happen. He complained that at one point even the director's barber (or dentist, maybe,) was writing dialog.

[@imagomedia9104]

The Woody Woodpecker cartoon used in the movie was updated and then used by NASA to explain space travel to the public.

[@Rickswars]

Yeah that’s what we get cartoons green screen and holly wood. It looks so fake it’s got to be real..so that cartoon is real?

[@Rickswars]

😁

[@davidstevenson9517]

As to how the Moon could influence Earth (18:00), in 1977, Dr Gerard K. O'Neill wrote "The High Frontier". Best seller. This book galvanized many in our generation, globally, to work towards a future based on an Earth/Moon Economy: where Space provides Energy and Resources for Earth whilst saving Earths Ecology and Economy. A Future Blueprint. NOW it is happening. Dr O'Neill and those he influenced, us, are prevailing. But for how long? Hello from New Zealand. 🌌📚🌍🚀🌚⏳👤🇳🇿🦎🌴🌊

[@socoman99]

I thought I read somewhere that Elon Musk was inspired by this film and the other 50's sci-fi movies that showed rocket ships similar to the "Luna". The initial designs of SpaceX's Starship looked almost identical. Also, the fact that the hull is mostly steel, which hasn't been used since the early Atlas rockets. Uncanny, how this film ( and the book it's based on ) predicted that space travel would be advanced by private companies and not the government, which is now becoming reality.

[@Leon1Aust]

Way before Musk the Apollo vehicles were made by a multitude of Aircraft companies like: Grumman, Aerojet, Bell Aerosystems, Rocketdyne, North American, Douglas Aircraft and other contractors around the country contributed to the Apollo programme.

[@deacondavis5098]

Superb Leith Stevens Score!!!!

[@Krisesakes]

Not bad for a 1950 flik.

[@allanalogmusicat78rpm]

1:01:44 The biggest problem for this ship is the ridiculously long ladder rung design! Even at lower gravity, that's a lot of climbing up and down.

[@dhy5342]

Unmistaken hand of Chesley Bonestel in the scenery.

[@FartyPants49]

It's a sexy rocket. Some launch... I hope they paid those actors a big fat bonus.

[@anthonydittrich9529]

GREAT MOVIE

[@kevanhubbard9673]

Bit like the opening credits of Star Wars the way they roll off into space.

[@cherylthompsonlt8321]

Shows Lucas has hoods taste.

[@cherylthompsonlt8321]

Oops...GOOD taste. Lucas is the best!

[@robertbrown7470]

The rocket lauch at 2:37 had me fooled. Looks more like a late 60's rocket. Hard to believe this is a 1950 or late 40's rocket.

[@chrismcpherson1586]

Watching here in Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇸 This November 23rd 2024 this is the 2nd time i have seen this really good well made classic ❤

[@gaz1tinsley]

12:27 "Der thyng wornt woyk !"

[@williamscoggin1509]

This is not a premier, it is been on KZbin for a while.

[@fahey5719]

So what? Ask for a refund if you paid too much.

[@richc47us]

Of all the SciFi writers I read when was kid Robert Heinlein was teh best.

[@igorbrille8222]

That rocket was launched in Peenemünde.

[@FartyPants49]

I love the way moments after the launch crash, still burning, they go home...

[@JoseyWales44s]

Life imitates art. Dr Cargraves describes the lunar surface as one of "utter barrenness and desolation". Eighteen years later, while standing on the Sea of Tranquility, Buzz Aldrin would similarly describe the lunar surface as "magnificent desolation".

[@festeradams3972]

Tail-firs landing burn...took nearly seventy years to catch up :-). It may have gone much quicker as in Heinlein's timeline. A man named Harriman started private space development in that timeline in the 50's and didn't leave it the Government (See Heinlein's "Future HIstory" series).

[@jsl151850b]

38:15 *I could have sworn that in one of my earliest viewings that Sweeny also said "...and out!".* *The flash in the upper right corner is a signal to the projectionist to change reels.* *I think the "...and out" was lost in the video conversion. TCM and by DVD don't have it either.*

[@Uniquettt]

Born Ralph Bowman John Archer ( Not John Archer the famous UK professional magician )plays Jim Barnes great first time viewing great production and quality acting

[@computeraisle]

I grew up in Iowa, reading any SF books I could find, and liked Heinlein a lot. Now I live in the town he was born and raised in, a few blocks from his childhood home.

[@rpcomms1]

Great fun film,love it,its strange now we have coloured pressure suits for astronauts! not so stupid after all.

[@bgw33]

I saw this in 1951 at a drive-in theater at Ulysses, Kansas. Only 18 years till the moon landing. Wow

[@gorymarty56]

The cartoon was hilarious

[@ZimbalistGarland]

Did anyone else think that the actor who played Joe reminded me of Humphrey Bogart?

[@lauriedooker1031]

History books say the the Luna burnt up in re-entry with all on board lost. Brave soles gone all too young . RIP 😊

[@davidstevenson9517]

I call the introductory scene climax (2:50), the "SpaceX Starship Scene". So close, it's eerie! (A compulsive act of Elon Musks' sub-conscience?)

[@java4653]

25:35 Calculus excitement,!

[@gerardosalazar161]

Unless the ship is made out of ferrous materials the magnets will not be usable but the the weight would be stupendous and no engine could send them out to space.

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

Yeah, about that...

[@veramae4098]

Original novel: Rocket Ship Galileo Brilliant scientist recruits 3 teenage boys interested in rocket science. Yes, that's right. What I remember most strongly are the tangents Heinlein often went into; in this it was a discussion with the Jewish boy's parents whether or not to let him go. Then a discussion on whether there IS a backside of the moon, or "nothing". Then long abandoned Selenite underground civilization, now being used by hidden Nazis. Other things like that. And, like almost everyone else of this age Dr. Cargraves brilliant space rocket fuel was an atomic mix. Scientists still hadn't fully grasped the fact that nuclear energy was DIFFERENT. It was often treated as just another "chemical" to be mixed.

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

To be fair, it was a nuclear thermal rocket using powdered zinc, heated to gas, as reaction mass. Ridiculous by today's understanding, but it made sense within the limits of knowledge of the time. Now, of course we know that nuclear thermal rockets have pants thrust to weight ratios, in part because a solid core NTR is severely limited by not being able to heat propellent beyond the melting point of the reactor material. Plus you need the lightest molecules you can get as exhaust, as those have the highest velocity for a given temperature, and velocity translates to specific impulse and how efficient the rocket is. It's why current designs use hydrogen as propellant. Using water as in Luna gets you lower delta V and would mean you had superheated disasociated oxygen flowing through the reactor, requiring special protection to avoid engine rich exhaust as the oxygen literally eats the engine.

[@paulmacdonald4844]

The count down at the beginning was too fast.

[@davidstevenson9517]

The Blurb for this movie makes it sound almost prescient of the first HLS Starship crewed landing, formerly scheduled for Artemis 3. Instead of falling over, Starship runs out of fuel...actually, Starship HASN'T enough fuel to return to LEO without lessening the cargo...

[@ailleananaithnid2566]

Great film! I love this era’s scifi minus the baked in sexism. As a woman who grew up in this era, i found the presumption that women were inferior mind numbing. We just elected a VP who doesn’t believe that women should have the right to vote. The powers that be want to take us back to this thinking. They apparently haven’t figured out that you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.

[@obamaissatan590]

Never seen Mr. Bogart in a role like this....absolutely brilliant

[@hertzair1186]

Yes…a very young Bogart…and uncredited as well!

[@grouchomarxist666]

Bogart? Not in this film.

[@kathylong4712]

It’s Dick Wesson as Sweeney not Bogart

[@jerry1276]

Dick Wesson did impressions, including, of course, Humphrey Bogart.

[@RodgerDodger196]

EXCELLENT MOVIE! In COLOR NO LESS!( guessing it wasnt originally but dont know. HEINLEIN WAS TECHNICAL ADVISOR-GOOD THING THEY HAD THOSE SQUISHY BEDS TO HELP? With the G Force/..... IVE seen stills and read articles from Likely STARLOG MAGAZINE( sadly gone) but THIS WAS THE FIRST TOME IVE EVER SEEN THIS MOVIE!! Check out those CLASSIC CAR LINES! Its pretty interesting how they figured back then that SPACE FLIGHT WOULD NEED TO BE PRIVATELY FUNDED! And IN TEXAS -i think we know whos down that-away doing just that! And the Rocket ship design is pretty close-likely this movie was one of the inspirations! PERSONALLY I THINK ELONS ROCKETS NEED WIDER LANDING FIND LIKE THIS ONE! Especially with uneven ground to land on! ( that probably to much drag-si just pop them out further like the fancy movie ladder. Old movies always have HUGE INTERIORS! HENCE HUGE ROCKETS I TOO THINK THIS DESIGNS PRETTY COOL. Duck Dogers did too. So did anyone notice the LEAD ACTORS NAME JOHN ARCHER- STAR TREK ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN JOHNATHEN ARCHER OF THE NX-01 THAT CANT BE A COINCIDENCE !! Can it🖖

[@alantasman8273]

The movie was color from the start.

[@ThomasGrillo]

Now, what does this film remind you of? Kind of familiar. :)

[@des2610]

So Magnetic shoes stick to aluminum/titanium rockets?

[@henrifischer1119]

convincing space suits has always been a props problem. especially the helmets.

[@bobbybates2614]

I have seen this at least 3 times what was sience fiction became sience fact

[@coloradostrong]

😏 _science_ possibly? Yea, "we went to the moon." 😂 🤣 🥲

[@JoseyWales44s]

@@coloradostrong Never understood why anyone feels compelled to publicly advertise their own ignorance.

[@FLYBOY-eh5th]

Same music that's in The Phantom Planet.

[@SignorNessuno65]

Ta da oyth!

[@johnnycrash3270]

17:54 - 18:05 And Marvin the Martion was going to Blow Up the World with Plutonium X-B36 Urainaum Thank God Bug's Bunny 🐰stole it away AND SAVED THE WORLD 🌎

[@aldunlop4622]

The Woody Woodpecker cartoon should be shown to all Flat-Earthers, although it does have a glaring error- the gravity of the Earth doesn’t “switch off” when a rocket leaves the atmosphere. Instead the rocket is going fast enough that it’s orbit is missing the Earth and too fast for Earth to pull it back.

[@dhy5342]

It didn't say that. Watch it again.

[@unitedthoughtsolutions]

If that is true then why do they attach balloons to the satellites

[@unitedthoughtsolutions]

Do you know what’s funny seems there is a hidden meaning in that video it seems that they’re saying to me in order to believe what they’re saying to you is you have to be a birdbrain To bye into that story ,,,, Kind of like they are mocking you for your beliefs and calling you a bird brain,,,,,

[@kimmathis1945]

Simpler times, when the moon was expected to be made up of blue cheese.

[@LSOK38]

Actually, green cheese.🌛🌜🧀🧀‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@trevormiles5852]

I have old glass pictures that were used for teaching. I have old 1950s I think of the hand nebula and some Mars pictures. Some of the teaching notes talk about the canals and how blossom fill up with water from pole water. I bought a leather case with cardboard partitions for the slides. I mention that in case it triggers a memory in somebody. Makes me wonder if somebody in our future will dig up some of our notes and laugh at how backwards we were. lol lol 😂😂

[@kimmathis1945]

@@LSOK38 Thanks for the correction.

[@gerardosalazar161]

You mean it is not cheese?

[@kimmathis1945]

@@gerardosalazar161 I'm afraid it's not. I was planning to visit with a box of crackers and a thermos full with tea. But science destroyed that dream…

[@PaulRoos-p3o]

The producers said , " And get me a Humphrey Bogart type to play joe"

[@neilfranklin5644]

They take off in a rocket and nobody put on a space suit.

[@josenighthawk]

Imagine Elon Musk feigning he can't hear a gov bureocrat with a court order to stop him from taking off to Mars, 'can't hear a word you say!' ... priceless!!

[@7munkee]

20:03 Why are they hammering nails in a rocket? You can clearly hear the hammering.

[@hcm9999]

I am looking for a film, but I can't remember the name of the film. It starts with an expedition to the moon, which finds the ruins of an old civilization and signs of a previous human expedition. They track down the survivors of the first expedition who then tell the story of the first mission to moon. They went the moon using an anti-gravity device invented by an old scientist. On the moon they find a civilization of giant ants. At the end of the film the old scientist decides to stay on the moon to live among the ants. But then the survivors of the first expedition remember that the old scientist had a cold...

[@JS-fe8sx]

From The Earth To the Moon, 1958.

[@hcm9999]

@@JS-fe8sx Almost! I have just found it, it is 1964 "First Men In The Moon", based on HG Wells. Thanks anyway!

[@JS-fe8sx]

You’re absolutely right. I had the right movie in mind, wrong movie to write down.@@hcm9999

[@Ken-k8v8y]

"First Men in the Moon" 1964

[@DMBall]

Unfortunately, the "small hole" they cut in the hull door to facilitate the return take-off got a full trial in the Columbia space shuttle disaster. A great movie, nonetheless.

[@hertzair1186]

You could almost call this movie “The Elon Musk Story” This movie contains a lot of truths…we went to the moon in 1969 as a preliminary military operation. There was a plan to build a military base on the moon, the USA knowing that, like was quoted in the movie “he who controls the moon, controls the Earth”.

[@Rickswars]

One thing for sure they knew very little about space. Folks were stuck here on this world never going outside of it because something won’t allow it to happen.

[@JoseyWales44s]

Well, someone knows very little about space.

[@ROSSMANSELL]

I first saw this film when it was shown at a film trade show way back before it went on general release.. .The cinema had about 50 people in it and whn the rocket blasted of the noise in the auditorium was unbelievably loud............ Often wondered why it never made the TV rounds what with Str Trek etc all the vogue.

[@davidhookway514]

I Like how he says 'Thirteen ' Sorry I'm English.

[@lordvalentine471]

Today I watched SpaceX used to Godzilla Chopstick thing to catch their rocket on return

[@ed9763]

Year of production 1950 . b4 the introduction of jet engines to commercial flights.

[@warrenwilson4818]

Note: 1950 film. Sat. Nov. 23, 2024

[@jessiedoggie1]

Great special effects and lunar scenery (even if it is not realistic with what we know now). Only thing I didn't like was the stars which were all the same brightness and too uniformly dispersed. They could have done much better on that,

[@JoseyWales44s]

They actually knew that the lunar surface would not be cracked, as though it were a dried up lake, but they needed to be able to use the cracks to create a forced perspective because the set was actually rather small.

[@gbear1005]

So.. in the thumbnail.. what is the moon like object behind the rocket on the moon?

[@davidstevenson9517]

Earth after a Total Nuclear War; America in the 50s was obsessed with it: they were working towards it.