I would like to see a Gen x or gen z write a movie about 50 or 60 from now. And then have people watch it I. 60 years. Like you I was born in 1954, so I'm fascinated by their guess for thefuture
I love this movie especially how realistic it is. Like how the Martians speak perfect North American English. Great entertaining science fiction though! especially the guy making the moves on the space chick!
I liked it.Born 45, this movie was pretty good.We didn't know at the time what we would learn later own.But still the human concerns have not changed,even to this day.
The crew ratio was all wrong. How could they expect 1 woman to wash all those clothes, make all those sammiches, Keep the rocket ship clean, and look after the men's "other" needs? Should been 4, maybe 5 women and 1 guy.
That rocket crashed into Mars at thousands of km/hr and wasn't scratched! And no one hurt! Must be made of impossiblium, we could use that tech on our roads.
NASA should have used that for that probe sent up a few years ago that crashed into the lunar south pole because the idiots at NASA were counting down the ft for landing and the ship computer was reading meters and it smashed into the surface like a trump train at election time.
I love the subtle style of using canteen stools as seats in the very first flight in space. Those seats would snap your neck under acceleration. No belts, just reach out and grab the structures, and hope it isn't electrical.
So much better than most SF movies of the time. No Martian monsters here, but an actual civilization on Mars. With a reasonable explanation of how they speak English. And a civilization ending problem.
Полет мысли был тогда неудержим! На Марсе можно было ходить в обвановенном костюме с простыми противогазами, особенно корреспонденту. А местные прям все в скафандрах. Нет никакой невесомости, силы тяжести. Здорово! Всё ещё впереди! ❤❤❤❤ А вот оставить корабль без присмотра - это не хорошо🤷♀️
Mission to Mars What a hoot this movie is! I really like how they crashed on Mars at almost ballistic speed, and they all walked away like they just had a fender bender in traffic.
Before we get too snarky, this movie is effectively a remake of “Aelita”, one of the first full length sci-fi films made, in this case, in the Soviet Union in 1924. Aleksei Tolstoy, the original author of Aelita, gets a screenwriter credit although he died in 1945. The original Aelita revolved around class conflict and other Marxist themes, which, not surprisingly, did not figure into this Cold War era Hollywood production.
9 days to Mars orbit. Damaged cables and batteries, but no decompression. Lets land... Nose first into a mountain. Opps. How very little they knew or cared about facts. But, still a good movie, like most of these 50s movies are.
This is hysterical. How cavalier they treated getting ready to go on a high-risk inter-planetary trip. Get picked up at the apartment, escorted directly to the door of the rocket and walk on the shipj in full civilian clothes. And of course....make sure the woman of the story wears high heels. 50s craziness.
Yup. I agree. Must be Gen Z,s . Ha I'm sure they can't comprehend dial phone and no internet. LOL. I think the imagination of these 50's writers were way ahead of their time for what was actually known
The women of Mars are so forward thinking. Those skirts have just enough coverage for modesty, and more leg for maneuverability. The future looks great.
I have to say the set design is colorful, warm and artistic. This movie maybe lacking in science but a whole lot of whimsy to make it amusing. In many ways it holds true to pulp sci fi books of the forties, a little bit fantastic, lose on the science, good guy's, bad guys, and pretty women to match.
Gave this a like, just in appreciation for this being uploaded. Past works of art are a part of the historical record, even when they're complete crap.
Some of the cast is Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Huston, Arthur Franz John Litel, Richard Gaines and Morris Ankrum (was also in The Giant Claw, Earth vs the Flying Saucers)
The actor who played the evil leader was also a judge off and on for years on Perry Mason. I think he may have been the general on Earth vs the Flying Saucers.
Space Dart redefines the term “stick the landing.” Also, Martian mini-skirts redefine the term “stick the landing.” It’s vague with variable meaning.. Spock out.
I can relate this movie because this is how we played space games as kids. Wearing no special clothes. Being able to breath the air, no matter where we were. Aliens speaking English. A rocket ship that travels at the speed of light. Love it.
Jim Barker played by Arthur Franz. Long career in both TV and film. He was the "invisible man" in the Abbott and Costello movie and did a lot of sci-fi movies.
No, nobody laughed. This was as serious and scientific sci-fi as it gets back then. Yes, I am that old. High heels don't work on the moon but are essential for Mars.
29:54 That was the most unrealistic "crash" in sci-fi movie history. The ship should have exploded into a million shards. But I did kind of like this flick.
I love that they are able to keep their shaky extension ladder hanging in the cabin for exiting the ship or brightening up the place with some fresh paint! The gyroscope keeps the cabin vertical at all times too! Love it.
FLIGHT TO MARS (Monogram, 1951) In Cinecolor. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, Marguerite Chapman, John Litel, Morris Ankrum. Produced by Walter Mirisch. Directed by Leslie Selander. Music by Marlin Skiles. A fun colorful popcorn movie. Now available on DVD and Blu-Ray in restored Cinecolor! A real classic, even though it's a B-movie, it's a good one! Welcome to the world of 1951. Similar to George Pal's classic Technicolor space adventure DESTINATION MOON (1950) but Pal's film is an A picture which is scientifically accurate and inspired the American Space Program in the 1950s leading to the creation of NASA in 1958.
A team of astronauts led by Jim Henson discovers a civilization on Mars facing extinction. The Martians speak perfect english with american accent ;-) That makes conversation with the martians easy and the storyline straight forward ,-) This film is definitly lacking in science and probability, but a whole lot of whimsy to make it amusing. I like the 1950thies futuristic design. Back then the rockets looked sleek an sexy, not so technical as the Saturn V, and not so boring big f'cking dildo-like as the SpaceX BFR (a. k. a. Starship) ;-) A very simple storyline, no big surprises, little suspense. Take a beer or two (or better more) to enjoy this marvel of simplicity.
The actual title is "Flight To Mars". And it was originally released in color (Cinecolor) in 1951 by Monogram Pictures. Being a "poverty row studio", it is surprising that Monogram spent the extra money for color film. Fun movie, but lets face it...a trip to Mars and our intrepid group are wearing street clothes...even Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon wore uniforms in those early serials. Speaking of uniforms, I loved the sexy outfits (mini-skirts) that the Martian women wore.
Thanks for the real title. Wiki didn't recognize the first title, but has an article on the real name. It's odd hearing Cameron Mitchell speaking normally without his hokey western cowboy accent. 😅
The orange piece of equipment that had the landing gear system looks an awful lot like a Sperry ball turret as used on B17 and B24 bombers.... correct me if I am wrong....
This film is not colorized, it is in cinicolor, and Virginia Huston is an overlooked beauty. She has a good part in the film noir classic, Out of the Past.
@@deepcosmiclove flight to Mars is NOT Colorized, it is shot in cinicolor.. Monogram spent the money for this feature jumping on the space travel popularity after the 1950s color production of Destination Moon .
Flight to Mars, 1951. Hard to believe Forbidden Planet would be made 5 years later, and 2001 would be made just 17 years after this hunk of cheese. But they tried and they meant well. Movies sure got better quickly.
A decision was made to give "Forbidden Planet" an actual big budget, which no science fiction movie had had before, and it showed in everything from the acting to the props and special effects. For an actual low budget gem (by my standards), try "Destination Moon" from 1950 no less! I personally like "hard" science fiction, (science fiction in which the "science" and tech are realistic and accurate as possible) and "Destination Moon" is the hardest science fiction movie I ever saw that was made before "2000, A Space Odyssey". They get most of the technical details right as closely as they could know it at the time. (They had Robert Heinlein as a consultant). Actually, most science fiction of this era irritates me because the writers and producers aren't taking the genre seriously. "Exploring the Martian Frontier" (if that's the name of this) is probably better than most in that regard. I'm willing to consider forgiving any flaw that is likely to be budget related, but I don't like being treated with contempt by the makers of the movie, and I don't get that from this like I do from many of it's contemporary "sci fi" movies. And I have no interest in "creature features". I can handle a tech society riff like "I Robot" or "Blade Runner", but what I really want from the genre is space travel. Hollywood generally didn't "get" SF then, and weren't interested in hiring talent that did, or know what to look for. Grading on the curve for the then state of the art, I give this one a C minus, a passing grade. Of course not being able to communicate by radio (even radiotelegraph) with Mars using 1950s tech (and fictionally beyond) is nothing more than a plot device.
@@digitalnomad9985 By Destination Moon being "hard science fiction" I suppose you're talking about their magnetic boots working on the titanium hull of the ship? How'd they pull that off?
I'm watching in bed, and to simulate take-off of the rocket, I thrashed around in my bed as we left Earth's orbit ... It was immersive and effective! 🤣 Much later ...... Well, I'm halfway to Mars now, and after the meteor storm passed, the ride is much smoother ... I've dispatched a Space Cylinder back to Earth, and now I can't wait to meet those Martians! ... I come in peace! ... But I've got my Discombobulating Ray Gun, just in case! 🤣 That crash landing was a bit rough, but it's okay because I've got my best brown leather trousers on, and my oxygen mask, and I'm all ready to meet the Martians! Well what do you know? Those Martians are dirty double-crossers! ... I thought they were going to put me in a cooking pot, but they're planning to take my rocket ship and use it to conquer Earth! 😲 ... I knew my Discombobulating Ray Gun would come in handy! ⚡💥😠
These movies are a hoot! Astronauts in casual dress, including woman in a skirt. Crash into the base of a mountain and rocket is intact. Even the guy with no seat belt is fine!
Well, the short skirts, high heels and hair styles were very attractive on the ladies, but that’s about the best I can say for this movie. The rest seems pretty silly to me. As a kid I remember some of my friends had big boxes and wooden crates we turned into space ships by adding a few on/off switches, some scavenged lightbulbs and some other knickknacks around our homes and garages. It was like that but with more “professional“ touches that this space ship was built. Gosh, if only we kids had the professional parts and abilities to build a spaceship like this in our backyards! Wow!
High heel pumps are every person's weakness man woman crossdresser doesn't really matter movies or not they just are kinda like a phallic symbol I myself have a passion for wearing high heels every woman into fashion does
Yes, the writers and directors were clearly very naive about space travel. However, back then I doubt most people watching it had enough knowledge of the subject to realise how inaccurate it was. Or they just didn't care. 😁
At closest approach (they said Mars was close), that would be about 5 minutes at the speed of light. I guestimate that t 7 days would be about how long it would take if your ship could accelerate halfway, and decelerate the rest of the way at about 1G. That would solve the gravity problem. At least they lampshaded the gravity problem by saying that the lady floated to the top before they got the artificial grav online. A week is about the round trip Apollo Moon trip time for the shortest stay (Apollo 11)
lol WW2 heavy bomber crews' suits as spacesuits 😅 Like the stories of the 19th century and early 20th century, that is totally unrealistic but I like that ^^
It's amazing how this incredibly advanced technology can allow people to be able to travel in space in such casual and comfortable intensely high heels and beautiful long legs as this masterpiece displays! Magnificent!
This is an absolutely hilarious movie !. As said Teletubbies versus WWII pilots with gasmasks. Martian women should wear more clothes as they put me off eating my Weetabix. Great crash landing into the side of a mountain. Now Earth is becoming uninhabitable we should go to Mars. Your subscribers are so wicked , they have given me more laughs than the flick. Many thanks to all you lunies .😂😂😂 Dave
This same rocket was in at least several outtar space movies and when does a woman wear a dress being launched in a rocket to Mars ? these 50's space movies are a hoot.
I love that they use a slide rule to make their calculations.
I also love the mattresses against the wall to brace for the crash landing.
Oh! Boy!
Hot pants and Mini Skirts . . .
😂😂😂
Slide rules got us to the moon...at least partially.
...and s couple good old Jacobs ladder electrical arcs to boot - classic!
Well guests are welcome after all.😅
They went into space, riding rolling office chairs and held in by cheap airline lap belts. Just one of the many, many reasons I'm loving this movie. 💥
and they land in snow too. Nothing red about it. Someone tell them about Boyle’s Law! Their blood should be boiling right now.♨
Don't forget using Mattresses as shock absorbers - take that, NASA & SpaceX!
I was born in 1950. And this is the most serious and thoughtful science fiction picture I have ever seen...sort of..kinda, well maybe...just saying...
Sure it’s not Forbidden Planet but it’s fun .
😁😁😁😁
I would like to see a Gen x or gen z write a movie about 50 or 60 from now. And then have people watch it I. 60 years. Like you I was born in 1954, so I'm fascinated by their guess for thefuture
Just think about it, okay it thought 💭🤔 about it 😂
Try "Destination Moon" from 1950. It actually gets most of the then-known science right.
High heels and mini-skirts are vital for space exploration!
They're key to the plot ya know! 😂😂
She wasn't exploring.
@@leaaronsanchez Oh yes she was!
They certainly tend to make ME a happy viewer!
At least hollywood got more sophisticated 15 years later. Women didn't wear minidresses and go go boots on the USS Ente.....
Never mind
I love this movie especially how realistic it is. Like how the Martians speak perfect North American English. Great entertaining science fiction though! especially the guy making the moves on the space chick!
I thought 💭🤔 that was the movie ,just not enough of it😂
I liked it.Born 45, this movie was pretty good.We didn't know at the time what we would learn later own.But still the human concerns have not changed,even to this day.
The crew ratio was all wrong. How could they expect 1 woman to wash all those clothes, make all those sammiches, Keep the rocket ship clean, and look after the men's "other" needs? Should been 4, maybe 5 women and 1 guy.
😂😅
Well, in her defense, she likely had all the "modern" high tech home appliances onboard. 😊
Be the same as being at home taking care of a bunch of crotch goblins
That's more like it😂.
That rocket crashed into Mars at thousands of km/hr and wasn't scratched! And no one hurt! Must be made of impossiblium, we could use that tech on our roads.
Nice!
That's possible, or maybe Unobtainium.
NASA should have used that for that probe sent up a few years ago that crashed into the lunar south pole because the idiots at NASA were counting down the ft for landing and the ship computer was reading meters and it smashed into the surface like a trump train at election time.
They hadn't invented Explodium until Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. 😅
I love the subtle style of using canteen stools as seats in the very first flight in space. Those seats would snap your neck under acceleration. No belts, just reach out and grab the structures, and hope it isn't electrical.
It's a movie.
@@jerrybrickley2115 Worse than that. It is a Hollywood film, they always pervert the book, the play, the screenplay, or the script made for the film.
So much better than most SF movies of the time. No Martian monsters here, but an actual civilization on Mars. With a reasonable explanation of how they speak English. And a civilization ending problem.
Полет мысли был тогда неудержим! На Марсе можно было ходить в обвановенном костюме с простыми противогазами, особенно корреспонденту. А местные прям все в скафандрах. Нет никакой невесомости, силы тяжести. Здорово! Всё ещё впереди! ❤❤❤❤ А вот оставить корабль без присмотра - это не хорошо🤷♀️
Mission to Mars
What a hoot this movie is!
I really like how they crashed on Mars at almost ballistic speed, and they all walked away like they just had a fender bender in traffic.
Before we get too snarky, this movie is effectively a remake of “Aelita”, one of the first full length sci-fi films made, in this case, in the Soviet Union in 1924. Aleksei Tolstoy, the original author of Aelita, gets a screenwriter credit although he died in 1945. The original Aelita revolved around class conflict and other Marxist themes, which, not surprisingly, did not figure into this Cold War era Hollywood production.
Do you have a playlist of iron curtain sci fi, just watched “First spaceship on Venus” and liked it.
Heavy 🪨😂
9 days to Mars orbit. Damaged cables and batteries, but no decompression. Lets land... Nose first into a mountain. Opps. How very little they knew or cared about facts. But, still a good movie, like most of these 50s movies are.
like you said, just 1950s era science fiction. the best.
That's why it's called "Science FICTION".
Ah DUUUH.
:/
"Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 🐉 🐲 thar be Serpents 🐍 ♥️ "
This is hysterical. How cavalier they treated getting ready to go on a high-risk inter-planetary trip. Get picked up at the apartment, escorted directly to the door of the rocket and walk on the shipj in full civilian clothes. And of course....make sure the woman of the story wears high heels.
50s craziness.
Space travel with nice fedoras and WW2 flight jackets. That´s stylish. Pipes allowed, btw. I loved the film. The rocket was a large version of a V2...
Holy shite Cameron Mitchell pre-westerns!! Legend
He also appeared in the film how to marry a millionaire 😊
The legs on some of the Martians!!!
"I see a place to 'LAND'. " @29:57 ~ their "landing" cracked me right up!
That landing should have turned them all into jelly. 😵💫
I love that space travel is reduced to the banality of a bus ride down town.
Ride a bus in a slum...
@@PPaxP Advice not to, or just a statement? And you are referring to just the USA?
One of the best parts of checking out these movies is reading all of the comments you jokers write. Almost better than the movies. Almost.
Yup. I agree. Must be Gen Z,s . Ha I'm sure they can't comprehend dial phone and no internet. LOL. I think the imagination of these 50's writers were way ahead of their time for what was actually known
@@hensonrobert5547 Somewhere on youtube a dad or mom hands their teen age kids a rotary phone and tell them to place a call and record the hilarity.
Cool set design..a mix of mid century and martian weird angle walls. Love the council chamber doorway that everyone has to duck under ...
The women of Mars are so forward thinking. Those skirts have just enough coverage for modesty, and more leg for maneuverability. The future looks great.
I have to say the set design is colorful, warm and artistic. This movie maybe lacking in science but a whole lot of whimsy to make it amusing. In many ways it holds true to pulp sci fi books of the forties, a little bit fantastic, lose on the science, good guy's, bad guys, and pretty women to match.
May be not maybe. Loose not lose.
My favorite part of these vintage sci-fi flicks is the smoke'n hot FEMs in their futuristic attire.
Well-filled brunettes in blue and high-heels! Like in 'Queen of Outer Space'!
Gave this a like, just in appreciation for this being uploaded. Past works of art are a part of the historical record, even when they're complete crap.
Good movie. I like the marsians miniskirts!
Those chairs were top of the line. You find them in flea markets, buy them.
Some of the cast is Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Huston, Arthur Franz John Litel, Richard Gaines and Morris Ankrum (was also in The Giant Claw, Earth vs the Flying Saucers)
👍
The actor who played the evil leader was also a judge off and on for years on Perry Mason. I think he may have been the general on Earth vs the Flying Saucers.
Space Dart redefines the term “stick the landing.” Also, Martian mini-skirts redefine the term “stick the landing.” It’s vague with variable meaning.. Spock out.
This is scifi done right - who cares about technical inaccuracies when you are too busy looking at legs
I can relate this movie because this is how we played space games as kids. Wearing no special clothes. Being able to breath the air, no matter where we were. Aliens speaking English. A rocket ship that travels at the speed of light. Love it.
Wow, "landing" nose first into a rock and not a scratch. They don't build them like that anymore.
John Deer.
Jim Barker played by Arthur Franz. Long career in both TV and film. He was the "invisible man" in the Abbott and Costello movie and did a lot of sci-fi movies.
And Cameron Mitchell went on to bigger and better things. 😊
The movie is called FLIGHT TO MARS, from 1951
It wasn't babe's in Toyland? Dang 😂
No, nobody laughed. This was as serious and scientific sci-fi as it gets back then. Yes, I am that old. High heels don't work on the moon but are essential for Mars.
29:54 That was the most unrealistic "crash" in sci-fi movie history. The ship should have exploded into a million shards. But I did kind of like this flick.
I’m just going to fly head first, engines at maximum, straight into this mountain and call it a landing!
Guess they have magnetic shirts, shoes and tobacco pipes too . . so smart and sciency!
I love that they are able to keep their shaky extension ladder hanging in the cabin for exiting the ship or brightening up the place with some fresh paint! The gyroscope keeps the cabin vertical at all times too! Love it.
FLIGHT TO MARS (Monogram, 1951) In Cinecolor. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, Marguerite Chapman, John Litel, Morris Ankrum. Produced by Walter Mirisch. Directed by Leslie Selander. Music by Marlin Skiles.
A fun colorful popcorn movie. Now available on DVD and Blu-Ray in restored Cinecolor!
A real classic, even though it's a B-movie, it's a good one! Welcome to the world of 1951.
Similar to George Pal's classic Technicolor space adventure DESTINATION MOON (1950) but Pal's film is an A picture which is scientifically accurate and inspired the American Space Program in the 1950s leading to the creation of NASA in 1958.
I caught that too, Oxygen?…….OK
Pressure?……OK
Love it! Just cracks me up.
A gem of a movie, things were funnier back then...
Mars: home to the most advanced civilization in the galaxy, with access to technologies humans can only dream of...well...except for radio.
Apparently a Herman Miller salesman got to Mars first and sold the Martians all their furniture 😂
He got to Starfleet too.
Who is Herman Miller?
@@grouchosays an interior designer and "modern" furniture line of the mid 20th century
The producers of this film got a great deal on props for their
film at George Pal's big Yard Sale.
A team of astronauts led by Jim Henson discovers a civilization on Mars facing extinction. The Martians speak perfect english with american accent ;-)
That makes conversation with the martians easy and the storyline straight forward ,-)
This film is definitly lacking in science and probability, but a whole lot of whimsy to make it amusing.
I like the 1950thies futuristic design. Back then the rockets looked sleek an sexy,
not so technical as the Saturn V,
and not so boring big f'cking dildo-like as the SpaceX BFR (a. k. a. Starship) ;-)
A very simple storyline, no big surprises, little suspense. Take a beer or two (or better more) to enjoy this marvel of simplicity.
Yes the story is very reministic of cheap pulp fictions of the 40's / 50"s.
Aye Aye Cap.
How refreshingly naive the writers and film makers were in those days.
32:37 I knew the Teletubbies came from Mars, so NASA has been hiding the truth 😅
This movie would have been nothing without the female costume designers !
Smoking a pipe on a space ship 😂
The actual title is "Flight To Mars". And it was originally released in color (Cinecolor) in 1951 by Monogram Pictures. Being a "poverty row studio", it is surprising that Monogram spent the extra money for color film. Fun movie, but lets face it...a trip to Mars and our intrepid group are wearing street clothes...even Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon wore uniforms in those early serials. Speaking of uniforms, I loved the sexy outfits (mini-skirts) that the Martian women wore.
Or, why native 'martians' had to wear space suits but earth people didn't...just wore WW2 Pilot gear.
Thanks for the real title. Wiki didn't recognize the first title, but has an article on the real name. It's odd hearing Cameron Mitchell speaking normally without his hokey western cowboy accent. 😅
Had people out side asking for spare change😂
I like how everybody including the Martians speak with a combination of Mid-Atlantic accent and a weird New York accent.
Smoking a pipe on the way to Mars, using mattresses as shock-absorbers ... Betcha NASA & SpaceX never thought of that! .. Huh? Huh?
What's that man smoken 😂
And finally the real exploration @ 22:45 . . . . Love in Space 🚀 And @ 55:00 . . . you can cut the space tension with a space-knife 🚀
I’m in New Mexico desert watching this 2024 it’s so cool such relief from these troubling times we live …
The orange piece of equipment that had the landing gear system looks an awful lot like a Sperry ball turret as used on B17 and B24 bombers.... correct me if I am wrong....
"Open the pod bay door Hal"
I thought the same thing the instant I saw it! I'm sure that you're correct. It's just painted orange...
I love how the exhaust smoke floats up in outer space.
It's science 🤨
It's "space smoke" so, yeah.
"This rocket is my coffin". Talk about a Debbie Downer!
I was overwhelmed by the technical jargon. Oxygen is “ok.” Pressure is “ok.”
LOL!!I noticed that too.
Oxygen and pressure OK? What else do you need to travel to Mars?
@@Vette89 LOL!!
Highly advanced Martian civilization, but somehow the workers wear gladiator outfits.
They put 🧲 magnets in them ,didn't have any magnetism of there own!😊
Colorized movies always gives folks a mortuary tan.
This film is not colorized, it is in cinicolor, and Virginia Huston is an overlooked beauty. She has a good part in the film noir classic, Out of the Past.
You are correct. I looked it up on IMDb and it was originally in color @@randyacuna5643
@@randyacuna5643 she was also Lex Barker's Jane in TARZAN'S PERIL (1951)
Who would spend the time and money to colorize this?
@@deepcosmiclove flight to Mars is NOT Colorized, it is shot in cinicolor.. Monogram spent the money for this feature jumping on the space travel popularity after the 1950s color production of Destination Moon .
Nothing like low back chairs to counter act the effects of high G maneuvers.
Those leather hats made the landing possible! Peta be damned!
None of them are wearing space suits. Just wearing every day clothes. 😂
You only get one chance to make a good first impression when meeting Martians!
Advanced material that is fire proof. Kevlar. 😂
Pace travel was so much simpler in those days
Flight to Mars, 1951. Hard to believe Forbidden Planet would be made 5 years later, and 2001 would be made just 17 years after this hunk of cheese. But they tried and they meant well. Movies sure got better quickly.
Be kind, they tried their best.
@@Antonia-yr8dp So what part of "But they tried and they meant well" confuses you?
A decision was made to give "Forbidden Planet" an actual big budget, which no science fiction movie had had before, and it showed in everything from the acting to the props and special effects. For an actual low budget gem (by my standards), try "Destination Moon" from 1950 no less! I personally like "hard" science fiction, (science fiction in which the "science" and tech are realistic and accurate as possible) and "Destination Moon" is the hardest science fiction movie I ever saw that was made before "2000, A Space Odyssey". They get most of the technical details right as closely as they could know it at the time. (They had Robert Heinlein as a consultant).
Actually, most science fiction of this era irritates me because the writers and producers aren't taking the genre seriously. "Exploring the Martian Frontier" (if that's the name of this) is probably better than most in that regard. I'm willing to consider forgiving any flaw that is likely to be budget related, but I don't like being treated with contempt by the makers of the movie, and I don't get that from this like I do from many of it's contemporary "sci fi" movies. And I have no interest in "creature features". I can handle a tech society riff like "I Robot" or "Blade Runner", but what I really want from the genre is space travel. Hollywood generally didn't "get" SF then, and weren't interested in hiring talent that did, or know what to look for. Grading on the curve for the then state of the art, I give this one a C minus, a passing grade.
Of course not being able to communicate by radio (even radiotelegraph) with Mars using 1950s tech (and fictionally beyond) is nothing more than a plot device.
@@digitalnomad9985 By Destination Moon being "hard science fiction" I suppose you're talking about their magnetic boots working on the titanium hull of the ship? How'd they pull that off?
Babes in miniskirts and high heels. My kind of sci-fi.
The best kind!😅
I'm watching in bed, and to simulate take-off of the rocket, I thrashed around in my bed as we left Earth's orbit ... It was immersive and effective! 🤣
Much later ......
Well, I'm halfway to Mars now, and after the meteor storm passed, the ride is much smoother ... I've dispatched a Space Cylinder back to Earth, and now I can't wait to meet those Martians! ... I come in peace! ... But I've got my Discombobulating Ray Gun, just in case! 🤣
That crash landing was a bit rough, but it's okay because I've got my best brown leather trousers on, and my oxygen mask, and I'm all ready to meet the Martians!
Well what do you know? Those Martians are dirty double-crossers! ... I thought they were going to put me in a cooking pot, but they're planning to take my rocket ship and use it to conquer Earth! 😲 ... I knew my Discombobulating Ray Gun would come in handy! ⚡💥😠
"there is a mineral called Corium..." Guess they had their Chernobyl too... ;^=[}
You a writer? 😂love it. Injecting discombobulating made it for me. 😆😜🙋🇨🇦
movie needed about another 10 minutes to finish the story properly
considering when it was made
decent job all around.
You would think they could afford another 10 min considering they flew to mars in 9 days
For those making fun of the tech and other things, this was 1951
never saw this before, similar plot to assignment outer space, this is a great times for film fans more and more obscure old movies available
I couldn't find this title on IMDb. There's it's listed as "Flight to Mars".
These movies are a hoot! Astronauts in casual dress, including woman in a skirt. Crash into the base of a mountain and rocket is intact. Even the guy with no seat belt is fine!
And you thought that miracles did not happen.
And that sure was a crazy twist finding Martian people!
Like betraying their own people and follow the earth human back to earth.
Yeah. Didn't see
that one coming 🙄
We wish to thank Estes Park Colorado for the "special effects".
Who knew the Teletubbies ruled Mars. Ha!
Only 15 yrs later, the first episode of star trek is broadcast.
Well, the short skirts, high heels and hair styles were very attractive on the ladies, but that’s about the best I can say for this movie. The rest seems pretty silly to me. As a kid I remember some of my friends had big boxes and wooden crates we turned into space ships by adding a few on/off switches, some scavenged lightbulbs and some other knickknacks around our homes and garages. It was like that but with more “professional“ touches that this space ship was built. Gosh, if only we kids had the professional parts and abilities to build a spaceship like this in our backyards! Wow!
If the shirts are short enough and the heels are high enough the movie doesn’t matter.
It's a movie & anytime you have women there will always need high heels and classy outfits for women which make movies better
High heel pumps are every person's weakness man woman crossdresser doesn't really matter movies or not they just are kinda like a phallic symbol I myself have a passion for wearing high heels every woman into fashion does
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@@chermaedubonnei3992 Um , no, high heels are evil and have made many podiatrists rich and many fashionable women hobble. 😁
Main effort is pulling wires and the heads up display harness to all electrical components.
there's not enough science in this to qualify as science fiction - just a decent adventure story
Yes, the writers and directors were clearly very naive about space travel. However, back then I doubt most people watching it had enough knowledge of the subject to realise how inaccurate it was. Or they just didn't care. 😁
WTF! OLDIES, BUT GOLDIES!!!
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Wow those Martian gals are smoking hot. I knew there was life on Mars what a great classic sci-fi
No space suits. 7 days to Mars, They must be going the speed of light. LOL
2024: Yeh the spaceship wasn’t built by Boeing.
It was powered by the controversial atomic energy.
At closest approach (they said Mars was close), that would be about 5 minutes at the speed of light. I guestimate that t 7 days would be about how long it would take if your ship could accelerate halfway, and decelerate the rest of the way at about 1G. That would solve the gravity problem. At least they lampshaded the gravity problem by saying that the lady floated to the top before they got the artificial grav online. A week is about the round trip Apollo Moon trip time for the shortest stay (Apollo 11)
lol WW2 heavy bomber crews' suits as spacesuits 😅
Like the stories of the 19th century and early 20th century, that is totally unrealistic but I like that ^^
In the fifties, legs were the cheapest special effect in the business.
NASA didn't brush that out!😂
It's amazing how this incredibly advanced technology can allow people to be able to travel in space in such casual and comfortable intensely high heels and beautiful long legs as this masterpiece displays! Magnificent!
They utilize superior buoyancy stabilizers as well!
Miss Universe on Mars.When on VENUS?❤❤❤❤❤
Looks as well-constructed as the OceanGate Titan ...
On Mars, the 'Teletubbies' meet 'the few'.😊
Love the reference to Mallory. So many reckon he climbed everest first, but Hillary said you have to return to prove it..alot disagree
It’s possible he made it to the Top.
No need for space suits
And its the first space ship I've seen which creates its own gravity
Yea, the gyroscope keeps it “vertical” at all times he said. Hilarious.
The engineers assistant is beautiful .
Makes one forget one is on mars😂
These classics are great!
I like the shades of blue in their colors.
he best thing about the movie is the "space" equipment... stuff for a walk in the countryside
This is an absolutely hilarious movie !. As said Teletubbies versus WWII pilots with gasmasks. Martian women should wear more clothes as they put me off eating my Weetabix. Great crash landing into the side of a mountain. Now Earth is becoming uninhabitable we should go to Mars. Your subscribers are so wicked , they have given me more laughs than the flick. Many thanks to all you lunies .😂😂😂 Dave
The women on Mars wear pantyhose and high heels all the time. I wanna go!!
Ah, the good old days when humans could walk on Mars in normal clothing with only an oxygen mask ...
OLDIES, BUT GOLDIES!!!
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This same rocket was in at least several outtar space movies and when does a woman wear a dress being launched in a rocket to Mars ? these 50's space movies are a hoot.
All woman on Mars wear dresses, high heels and nylons with garter belts.
But that's what women wore -- who could possibly conceive a future when women wore a flight suit like men? 😁 Impossible.
That is one tough space ship....
Even the men wear tights and miniskirts on Mars.