For a 1950 movie the earth looked so realistic. They didn’t know what our planet looked like from space until over a decade later. When I worked at Johnson Space Center I was an engineer, designer and suit subject. I knew a lot of technicians who worked in the suit lab in building 7 at JSC. After moon landings and return to earth the suits were sent to the suit lab and techs refurbished them. Part of the process was vacuuming the suits. Because moon dust stuck to the suit so well technicians were able to vacuum dozens of vials of dust. I was good friends with an old timer named George. I went over to his place and he said he wanted to show me something in his garage. He had a dozen 5 inch test tubes full of moon dust. Even though NASA heavily guarded moon rocks they never thought about the large quantity of dust that would be collected on suits. I always regretted not asking George for a test tube full of moon dust. He would’ve given me one.
@@vilerite True, although it was a mosaic and didn’t show the full side of earth. The 16mm film did record color images of Earth but that was in 1954. This movie was released in 1950 so they didn’t know what the earth looked like yet. Good catch though. I forgot about that satellite. 👍🏼
I've been watching sci-fi and horror movies for most of my life. I remember watching this movie the first time on a black and white TV around the age of eight, that's over sixty years ago. God I feel old and young at the same time. For good or bad, things are happening faster
... escaping authorities, "Can't heeeear a word you say!" - Priceless! ... Hey, Elon Musk, betcha you and SpaceX would not do same before you blast off to Mars!
@@markbass9402 It was amazing to see any movie, made after 1950, on t.v. in 1955! It was like going to "the movies" for free! (except we didn't have color t.v.'s, then!) I'm surprised that you remember the exact date!
I grew up in the 50s and 60s. I loved science fiction. Watching these movies and reading sci-fi books were a very important part of my childhood. I still love that genre.
This truly was visionary for the time and was an inspiration to many engineers who later worked on the the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. It was an inspiring film which for the most part was scientifically accurate. Also, it was prescient in envisioning a future in which private industry is actively engage in the conquest of space. This film has always been one of my favorites in the sci-fi genre.
Funny thing is they could never do any of this in today's bureaucrat run society... Hell OSHA would stop the project the moment they began to erect the first layer of that red scaffolding. LOL
Merci pour ce magnifique film de SF des années 50! Je l'avais vu pour la première fois dans un petit cinéma indépendant à Paris! Les salutations de France! 😊👍💙🤍❤
Heinlein must have been a socialist. Only a socialist would use a nuclear reaction to generate the amount of heat needed for an "environmentally friendly" (steam-powered) rocket engine. Still, it's a great film - only 4 years post WW-II. Thank you for sharing it.
Thanks for putting this movie up. This was actually a pretty good movie! For 1950 it got a lot of stuff right. I have seen some more modern pictures where the physics was all messed up. I think I saw this flick when I was a little kid, still several years before the Apollo 11 flight. Nice nostalgia.
Less than 10 years after this was made the Soviet union launched luna 2 and within 35 hours the first man made object had landed on the moon, nearly 20 years after this was made man finally set foot on the moon
The most important historical fact for Destination Moon is the writing credit to Robert A. Heinlein, who wrote the original novel, the first draft of the screen play, and served as a consultant during the production. It is the only one of Heinlein's stories that has been accurately adapted to film.
The Puppet Masters was good, but they made it contemporary instead of based in the future. I love the last line of the book. *"Puppet Masters--The free men are coming to kill you! Death and destruction!"*
@@rickhibdon11 Loved the book. They ruined the movie because they eliminated the power suits. I read that none of the actors wanted any screen time where the couldn't be clearly visible.
I saw this at our local theater when I was 8. That was in the summer of 1960. It was one of those Saturday Matinee double feature specials with a cartoon before the first film and old war newsreels during intermission. I am 70 now.
Great movie … I was very impressed this being a 1950s scI- fi movie. It seemed quite plausible to me than others films about space travel at this time. That cartoon convinced me! Lolol. Special effects were really good. And filmed in color was a nice change from the very many black and white films made at the time.
Way ahead of its time, remarcably prescient, right down to the first words said on the moon. Few movies, or tv series were as factual for decades. I still remember watching this as a young boy, rite down to the spacesuit falling from the airlock door.
The best. I've owned this one since DVDs became a thing, but it still makes me sit down and watch every time it pops up in a stream or broadcast..this time is no exception. Thanks for posting!
@@frankierio3326 I owned it as a VHS before DVDs were a thing, and I've owned it as a book for fifty-two years. I see no point in progressing beyond DVD & BluRay..the streaming shit that's stored on someone else's server is about as real and substantial as a unicorn fart.. I'll hang on to my library of unedited original hard copies, junior. Now get the hell off my lawn. And shut off your friggin' caps, screaming isn't making you look any smarter.
The nineteen fifties were the best decade of my life and maybe the best since the 1770s. I wish time travel were possible. I'd go back to 1959 in a New York minute!
In 1951, at age 5, I saw the 'coming attractions' for 1950's "Destination Moon" at my local theater! (We got films late!) It was the first time that I ever saw 'color film' & seeing the different colored spacesuits, astounded me! The movie was prophetic, in that they predicted that private industry would one day, lead the way in Outer Space exploration! Superb special effects for the mid 20th Century!
A piece of trivia for you. When Pal made the movie they knew the surface would not look the way it did. He added the cracked mud look to force the perspective to make the set look larger. A couple of the long shots of people moving around the outside of the ship were actually little people used, once again to give the impression of a much large set than they had to work with.
It's appropriate that the typeface in the opening credits is Futura. This was used on various props in _2001: A Space Odyssey_ and was used on the plaque on the base of the Apollo XI lunar module.
A great movie. I was deeply impressed by the quality of the film, the sets, the writing... of course Robert Heinlein was in the credits. What jumped out at me were the similarities to 2001: A Space Odyssey- mishaps in zero G; gravity boots; upside down angles to denote lack of perspective; an EVA to repair electronic equipment, in this case, the radar; different color spacesuits to differentiate crew members; someone on the verge of being lost in space; the Moon landscape seemed right out of 2001. The inventiveness is pure science fiction: using an oxygen tank to propulse yourself in space, brilliant! All this and a Woody Woodpecker cartoon to boot, how can you ask for anything else.
> Someone explain the magnetic boots for me. They surely didn't build the rocket out of steel. They talked about using titanium, which is only very weakly magnetic. So how do the magnetic boots illustrated in the film work?
Enjoyably made, for its time. Some eerie concordances with Apollo 11 such as the necessity of expending extra fuel to reach a safe lunar landing spot, the trip down the ladder, the deployment of scientific experiments, and weirdly, they used the same rarely-used word to describe the landscape that Aldrin did: "desolate" (Aldrin: "Magnificent desolation." Had he watched this film?) Of course it's ridiculous that a dozen or two humans could pull off this entire launch effort---and in just 17 hours, too.
This film has a wonderful symmetry to it. The first part is concerned with a frantic effort to build the spaceship; the last part with disassembling it.
"Le voyage dans la lune" 1902 Georges Méliès bien qu'il s'agisse d'une comédie, c'était peut-être la fiction originale en celluloïd décrivant un tel événement.
My mate and myself both really enjoyed this. Think it's the first time I've seen it. The animated sequence at the start highly amusing and the rest, well, quire accurately portrayed, particularly given the limits in achievable special effects at the time this was made.
Considering that this movie was made in 1950... I think they did an outstanding job. Especially the scenes where they have to fake weightlessness were very cleverly done! ... and if you're a Tintin fan... this movie seems very familiar somehow. EDIT... did some research, and this is what I found: "According to literary critics Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier, possible fictional influences on Hergé's story include Jules Verne's 1870 novel Around the Moon and the 1950 American film Destination Moon.[20] Hergé was certainly inspired by a number of photographic stills from the Destination Moon film which had been published.[21]" (Wikipedia)
Yes, very Tintin-ish (the movie even borrows the comic's title (of the first part of that Tintin story). Tintin - Destination Moon was first published around 1950, and this movie - Destination Moon was made (you guessed it), around 1950.
The difference with Verne's novel was it was never intended to be a MANNED flight - and the idea came from bored gun--club members who came up with the bright idea to fire what was basically a 50 foot bullet out of a canon at the moon (it was not rocket powered).
It's a great shame that this movie hasn't ever been restored from the original camera negatives (does anyone know if they still exist?) and transferred to Blu Ray or 4K. Still the most scientifically and physically accurtate movie about space and the Moon at the time and still more accurate than most science fiction movies of today.
When I was about 7 years old, I watched “ Destination Moon” as the popular 1950’s sci-fic adventure movie in the TV show in the family living room at home.
It completely inspired the Belgium Comic Book with the character Tintin that is about a travel to the Moon, I now réalize it. For once, physically very accurate for a sci-fi movie
This and 'When Worlds Collide' hooked me into spaceflight astronomy for a lifetime. At the time, us boys were firmly convinced a US Moon landing would occur in the late Fifties...we were ten years shy! The rocket artistry design was Chesley Bonestell-influenced, through books like 'Across the Space Frontier'.
And some of us girls too! I clipped and saved every article about the Apollo missions. And watched them on TV- in those days space missions got BIG coverage.
@@melodiefrances3898 I meant to say when worlds collide that's what I meant to say when they took off only white people good genetics were allowed to get on that ship that movie is stupid those guards surrounding the complex there's supposed to make sure that there's no sabotage a crowd or mob coming in so when they take off well they going to be stuck they won't get a chance to save their families or themselves
@Cult Cinema Classics - thank you so much for posting this!! I’ve just watched it the whole way through, the first time since a long time ago, most likely a Saturday Matinee on UK TV in the early 1970s. Brilliant memories. Thank you.
This movie has one helluva pedigree: George Pal production, based on a Robert A Heinlein book with artwork by the incomparable Chesley Bonestell, with direction from the well-known Irving Pichel.
Goodness... During the intro credits, I heard distinct scoring elements of the 1944 film Laura. A great movie, Laura, and an even greater score by David Raksin.
I don't recall seeing this before, but that's an old memory for ya. Excellent movie and special effects. Thanks for posting this.The captain and the guy from Brooklyn are familiar from other movies also.
What a wonderfully visionary film! Much of the science and the psychology ring true today. One would expect both science, engineering and imagination from Robert Heinlein. Heinlein went on to author such classics as STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE, THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, and FRIDAY. George Pal went on to produce such films as THE TIME MACHINE, THE WONDERUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, and THE SEVEN FACES OF DOCTOR LAO. Historical note: When DESTINATION MOON was made (1950), the world was wstill using vacuum tube technology, considered black and white analog TV a miracle, and hadn't gotten used to Cinemascope.
É necessário entender que esse filme foi idealizado 8 anos antes da fundação da NASA, 19 anos antes do homem pousar na Lua . Realmente, foi escrito por um visionário.
Love this 50s Sci-Fi ... it makes me fantasize as a kid again! ... escaping authorities with cease-and-desist order, "Can't heeeear a word you say!" - Priceless!
There were of course many things that you could criticise this film for but the number of things they got right was absolutely stunning! Even the backward steps down the ladder were a bit like Neil Armstrong. Of course they overdid the acceleration effects but it really looked as if they went to the trouble of putting each one of them into a centrifuge to pull their faces back. They correctly showed them being in freefall while on their way to the moon, and space-walking, and using a gas bottle to move around was the way the Gemini astronauts did it (of course with a purpose-made gas gun and an umbilical). The photographs of each other were exactly what the Apollo astronauts did, and to have the earth in the sky like the moon from the earth - first seen for real with Apollo 8. Pictures of the earth as they were leaving it - correctly with mainly clouds visible rather than landmasses. And really the landing was very much like the real thing, looking at the potential landing spots and choosing one - even having reduced choice because of being short of fuel.
almost as good as the 1969 movie ! the take-off scene, with the g's on the faces, is impressive. the weightlessness in the rocket too. the material is well designed, and the spacesuits in color, a great idea. an excellent film of this era !
The ship and couches in this movie are very similar to the ones drawn in the tintin comic book series. The comic is even called destination moon it did come out after this movie and follow similar but not identical plot line
I saw this in 1958 or so when I was about 8 or 9. My sister and I shared a bedroom back then and whenever she'd have friends over to stay the night my parents would make up a bed for me in the living room. I'd stay up late watching scifir movies and this is one of the ones I watched. I loved these old scifi movies when I was a kid. The Angry Red Planet was another favorite of mine. I was too young to realize the science was not even close to being factual. That was the fun of being a kid, having the imagination to believee this stuff.
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I guess this was a forerunner of Apollo 13 where they had to construct something with bits of the craft in order to get back safely. Little did those film makers way back then knew how prophetic that was. However I just couldn't help laughing at some of the scenes. Especially when they carried out the ladder to help them get to the ground. Also what a stroke of luck to have a saw that could cut through metal in order to throw parts of the ship out. I wonder who's idea it was to pack that and what they thought it would be used for? The thing that amazed me the most was all the litter they left after them. Hardly a day on the moon and they were already throwing their trash around. Like all scifi, one has to suspend belief and just enjoy the show. Thanks for uploading.
Realizare excelentă pentru acei ani. Despre broșura SF (vreo 10-12 pagini) cu desene pentru copii, tipărite prin anii '60 cca cu titlul "FOC ÎN LUNĂ " își amintește vreun "copil" ai anilor respectivi? Atât desenele cât și tema erau grozave, fascinante...
The design of the single stage rocket was elegant and was used in many space movies back then. It was like the ideal space ship. The multi-stage rocket concept by Warner Von Braun was still a few years away from showing that it was the way to get into space.
Thats why nuclear propulsion for energy was needed to get to the moon, I presume. With a conventional rocket you couldn't take anything like enough fuel to get to the moon and back.
They actually called it the ‘V2 rocket’. 16:15. I understand Von Braun was involved in the US space program but I hadn’t realized it was so openly acknowledged.
This was an excellent movie 🙂 thank you so much for it 🙂 One thing I've always loved about these 1950's ( well...Late 1940's actually since this was made in 1950 ) is that the people about to go to space or the moon often wore dress shoes because this was the 1950's and even if you're about to go into space you still need to look the part and dress like a proper gentleman 😄😄😄 They could have worn army boots or sneakers but no...They had to wear dress shoes... I'm surprised they didn't wear ties too...They might come into contact with unknown life forms so I guess it's important to make the best impression 🙂🙂🙂
This one being one of the earliest is one of the best, seems more like a propaganda movie than a sci fi movie, with all the extreme paranoia and fear the USA was living in, suggesting the first country to reach the moon would be able to launch missiles from it. The red scare they called it, the USA was whipped up into a frenzy much like when could hit, although that was actually real.
@@randyacuna5643 THX RANDY, LOOKED UP THE MOVIE BUT WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR IT TO COME ALONG. NOBODY HAS EVER ACCOMPLISHED THE BLAST OF ANGER AND RAGE LIKE MR. CAGNEY!!!!😮😀💪💪💪🤯👀👀👀
@FRANKIE RIO if you notice in my comment, I said heat is arguably cagney's best gangster film., not his best movie. Read carefully before you give your comments.
From opening credits: Martin Eisenberg was a superb crafter of sci-fi scenes, Chesley Bonestell an acclaimed space illustrator who influenced the NASA Moon program through his promotion of it, Robert Brower a color filming innovator who worked on many TV shows (including MASH.) And let’s not overlook Walt Lantz, creator of Woody “eh, eh, eh, EH, eh” Woodpecker!
thank you robert anson heinlein for inspiring a generation with mankinds destiny. i hope we'll yet make you proud.
For a 1950 movie the earth looked so realistic. They didn’t know what our planet looked like from space until over a decade later. When I worked at Johnson Space Center I was an engineer, designer and suit subject. I knew a lot of technicians who worked in the suit lab in building 7 at JSC. After moon landings and return to earth the suits were sent to the suit lab and techs refurbished them. Part of the process was vacuuming the suits. Because moon dust stuck to the suit so well technicians were able to vacuum dozens of vials of dust. I was good friends with an old timer named George. I went over to his place and he said he wanted to show me something in his garage. He had a dozen 5 inch test tubes full of moon dust. Even though NASA heavily guarded moon rocks they never thought about the large quantity of dust that would be collected on suits. I always regretted not asking George for a test tube full of moon dust. He would’ve given me one.
Oooh.
@@AudieTheMastiffthat's actually bad ass, id love to have some moon dust!
What does that have to do with this movie?
over a decade? The first color picture of earth was in 1954 from the Aerobee.
@@vilerite True, although it was a mosaic and didn’t show the full side of earth. The 16mm film did record color images of Earth but that was in 1954. This movie was released in 1950 so they didn’t know what the earth looked like yet. Good catch though. I forgot about that satellite. 👍🏼
I've been watching sci-fi and horror movies for most of my life. I remember watching this movie the first time on a black and white TV around the age of eight, that's over sixty years ago. God I feel old and young at the same time. For good or bad, things are happening faster
... escaping authorities, "Can't heeeear a word you say!" - Priceless! ... Hey, Elon Musk, betcha you and SpaceX would not do same before you blast off to Mars!
1955? Me too! Apr. 3, 1955
@@markbass9402 It was amazing to see any movie, made after 1950, on t.v. in 1955! It was
like going to "the movies" for free! (except we didn't have color t.v.'s, then!) I'm surprised
that you remember the exact date!
Did you too have a big brother who always added “that’s a V-2” ?
@rongendron8705 I think he is saying that is his Birthday.. (though he should delete that comment identity theives use info like that!...)
Watched this when i was 6 in the early 60's. Still enjoyed watching it again, great film. Still stands up well 74 years after it was made.
One of my favorite science fiction movies from the 50's!
Also for me the same preference... They are the best science fiction movies without electronic special effects..😂👍
I grew up in the 50s and 60s. I loved science fiction. Watching these movies and reading sci-fi books were a very important part of my childhood. I still love that genre.
This truly was visionary for the time and was an inspiration to many engineers who later worked on the the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. It was an inspiring film which for the most part was scientifically accurate. Also, it was prescient in envisioning a future in which private industry is actively engage in the conquest of space. This film has always been one of my favorites in the sci-fi genre.
So wrong at times, but over all for 1950, so right!! 👍
Funny thing is they could never do any of this in today's bureaucrat run society... Hell OSHA would stop the project the moment they began to erect the first layer of that red scaffolding. LOL
"Do we go to lunch or do we go to the moon?" Great line! I also loved the sound the space boots made.
Ill have Taco Bell.
Merci pour ce magnifique film de SF des années 50! Je l'avais vu pour la première fois dans un petit cinéma indépendant à Paris! Les salutations de France! 😊👍💙🤍❤
Heinlein must have been a socialist. Only a socialist would use a nuclear reaction to generate the amount of heat needed for an "environmentally friendly" (steam-powered) rocket engine. Still, it's a great film - only 4 years post WW-II. Thank you for sharing it.
Buzz Aldrin recommended this to me to watch.
Retro science fiction stories are always fun to check out
Agreed 😊
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The X-Minus 1 radio production of this was pretty funny
I have always ben Amazed by thematte painting of the lunar landscape by Chelsea Bonestell! Simply breath-taking!
Thanks for putting this movie up. This was actually a pretty good movie! For 1950 it got a lot of stuff right. I have seen some more modern pictures where the physics was all messed up. I think I saw this flick when I was a little kid, still several years before the Apollo 11 flight. Nice nostalgia.
Και η δήθεν αποστολή στο Φεγγάρι-Σελήνη επιστημονική φαντασία ήταν .
Σε στούντιο.
Με ηθοποιούς όμως που σπούδασαν κάτι άλλο παρά υποκριτική.
Less than 10 years after this was made the Soviet union launched luna 2 and within 35 hours the first man made object had landed on the moon, nearly 20 years after this was made man finally set foot on the moon
The most important historical fact for Destination Moon is the writing credit to Robert A. Heinlein, who wrote the original novel, the first draft of the screen play, and served as a consultant during the production. It is the only one of Heinlein's stories that has been accurately adapted to film.
You can tell Heinlein's work anywhere.
The Puppet Masters was good, but they made it contemporary instead of based in the future. I love the last line of the book.
*"Puppet Masters--The free men are coming to kill you! Death and destruction!"*
Uhh Starship Troopers?
@@rickhibdon11 Loved the book. They ruined the movie because they eliminated the power suits.
I read that none of the actors wanted any screen time where the couldn't be clearly visible.
@@cindydott452 There's a real good case to be made that the second Alien movie, "Aliens" was a much truer vision of Heinlein's Starship Troopers
I saw this at our local theater when I was 8. That was in the summer of 1960. It was one of those Saturday Matinee double feature specials with a cartoon before the first film and old war newsreels during intermission. I am 70 now.
Dang, you remember all that?? lol
@@solefinder3708 Like it was yesterday! lol
Great movie … I was very impressed this being a 1950s scI- fi movie. It seemed quite plausible to me than others films about space travel at this time. That cartoon convinced me! Lolol. Special effects were really good. And filmed in color was a nice change from the very many black and white films made at the time.
you should see Forbidden Planet, also made in the early 50s with a young Leslie Neilson and the most famous movie Robot of all time Robbie the Robot
Way ahead of its time, remarcably prescient, right down to the first words said on the moon. Few movies, or tv series were as factual for decades. I still remember watching this as a young boy, rite down to the spacesuit falling from the airlock door.
This is the best movie I’ve ever seen
When the ship lifted off from the moon, the mountains disappeared from view in the porthole but the Earth stayed visible--nice touch of realism!
The best.
I've owned this one since DVDs became a thing, but it still makes me sit down and watch every time it pops up in a stream or broadcast..this time is no exception.
Thanks for posting!
@@frankierio3326
I owned it as a VHS before DVDs were a thing, and I've owned it as a book for fifty-two years.
I see no point in progressing beyond DVD & BluRay..the streaming shit that's stored on someone else's server is about as real and substantial as a unicorn fart..
I'll hang on to my library of unedited original hard copies, junior.
Now get the hell off my lawn.
And shut off your friggin' caps, screaming isn't making you look any smarter.
@@frankierio3326 And your point is. Bozo???
Well done film, great for it's time.
1950. What a great movie for this time. Enjoyable.
The nineteen fifties were the best decade of my life and maybe the best since the 1770s. I wish time travel were possible. I'd go back to 1959 in a New York minute!
In 1951, at age 5, I saw the 'coming attractions' for 1950's "Destination Moon" at my local theater!
(We got films late!) It was the first time that I ever saw 'color film' & seeing the different colored
spacesuits, astounded me! The movie was prophetic, in that they predicted that private industry
would one day, lead the way in Outer Space exploration! Superb special effects for the mid 20th Century!
That’s so cool!
Brilliant! They actually landed on the Moon less than 20 years after this was made. So many of the details were prophetic.
A piece of trivia for you. When Pal made the movie they knew the surface would not look the way it did. He added the cracked mud look to force the perspective to make the set look larger. A couple of the long shots of people moving around the outside of the ship were actually little people used, once again to give the impression of a much large set than they had to work with.
I can't believe that I never saw this movie before! It's a pretty good movie and much more scientifically accurate than most from the 50s.
Oppenheimer opens tomorrow. Make sure you buy a ticket early.
It's appropriate that the typeface in the opening credits is Futura. This was used on various props in _2001: A Space Odyssey_ and was used on the plaque on the base of the Apollo XI lunar module.
A great movie. I was deeply impressed by the quality of the film, the sets, the writing... of course Robert Heinlein was in the credits. What jumped out at me were the similarities to 2001: A Space Odyssey- mishaps in zero G; gravity boots; upside down angles to denote lack of perspective; an EVA to repair electronic equipment, in this case, the radar; different color spacesuits to differentiate crew members; someone on the verge of being lost in space; the Moon landscape seemed right out of 2001. The inventiveness is pure science fiction: using an oxygen tank to propulse yourself in space, brilliant! All this and a Woody Woodpecker cartoon to boot, how can you ask for anything else.
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Someone explain the magnetic boots for me.
They surely didn't build the rocket out of steel. They talked about using titanium, which is only very weakly magnetic. So how do the magnetic boots illustrated in the film work?
Enjoyably made, for its time. Some eerie concordances with Apollo 11 such as the necessity of expending extra fuel to reach a safe lunar landing spot, the trip down the ladder, the deployment of scientific experiments, and weirdly, they used the same rarely-used word to describe the landscape that Aldrin did: "desolate" (Aldrin: "Magnificent desolation." Had he watched this film?) Of course it's ridiculous that a dozen or two humans could pull off this entire launch effort---and in just 17 hours, too.
Not seen this for quite a while. A great movie. Glad I found it again.
This film has a wonderful symmetry to it. The first part is concerned with a frantic effort to build the spaceship; the last part with disassembling it.
Born in 1956, this is my type of memory, thanks.
I like the huge wrench on the utility belt,just in case he needs to join the iron workers.
No wonder its been kept under wraps. Its a fabulous movie. I loved it!
L'un des premiers film de science fiction sur les voyages sur la lune , plutôt bien fait, avec de bons effets spéciaux pour l'époque.
"Le voyage dans la lune" 1902 Georges Méliès bien qu'il s'agisse d'une comédie, c'était peut-être la fiction originale en celluloïd décrivant un tel événement.
I was 5 when this came out. I can't believe that I Remer it. Fantastic movie that I'd love to watch today...so I am...
My mate and myself both really enjoyed this. Think it's the first time I've seen it. The animated sequence at the start highly amusing and the rest, well, quire accurately portrayed, particularly given the limits in achievable special effects at the time this was made.
Considering that this movie was made in 1950... I think they did an outstanding job.
Especially the scenes where they have to fake weightlessness were very cleverly done!
... and if you're a Tintin fan... this movie seems very familiar somehow.
EDIT... did some research, and this is what I found:
"According to literary critics Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier, possible fictional influences on Hergé's story include Jules Verne's 1870 novel Around the Moon and the 1950 American film Destination Moon.[20] Hergé was certainly inspired by a number of photographic stills from the Destination Moon film which had been published.[21]" (Wikipedia)
Yes, very Tintin-ish (the movie even borrows the comic's title (of the first part of that Tintin story). Tintin - Destination Moon was first published around 1950, and this movie - Destination Moon was made (you guessed it), around 1950.
The difference with Verne's novel was it was never intended to be a MANNED flight - and the idea came from bored gun--club members who came up with the bright idea to fire what was basically a 50 foot bullet out of a canon at the moon (it was not rocket powered).
It's a great shame that this movie hasn't ever been restored from the original camera negatives (does anyone know if they still exist?) and transferred to Blu Ray or 4K. Still the most scientifically and physically accurtate movie about space and the Moon at the time and still more accurate than most science fiction movies of today.
UCLA Archives plans to restore it this year (2024) from the original 3-strip Technicolor separations.
@@jameskroeper1759 WOW! Best possible news. Thanks! 😃😃😃
I like how the extra G force applied itself to the men's faces one at a time.
When I was about 7 years old, I watched “ Destination Moon” as the popular 1950’s sci-fic adventure movie in the TV show in the family living room at home.
The best of the early space movies due to the special effects. I saw this at the local theatre in 1950.
Thanks for posting. Props to Heinlein. Fairly accurate and interesting, for 1950!
A friend of mine (two flights on the Space Shuttle) saw this movie when he was a boy in Tennessee.
It started him on his path to space.
It completely inspired the Belgium Comic Book with the character Tintin that is about a travel to the Moon, I now réalize it. For once, physically very accurate for a sci-fi movie
Bravo , That's was fun to watch, even in 2023
That first rocket test landed like one of my old Estes model rocket failures.
It was this disaster that started the Springfield tire fire.
This and 'When Worlds Collide' hooked me into spaceflight astronomy for a lifetime. At the time, us boys were firmly convinced a US Moon landing would occur in the late Fifties...we were ten years shy! The rocket artistry design was Chesley Bonestell-influenced, through books like 'Across the Space Frontier'.
And some of us girls too!
I clipped and saved every article about the Apollo missions. And watched them on TV- in those days space missions got BIG coverage.
Yeah there was no room for black people on that rocket ship LOL
@@melodiefrances3898 I meant to say when worlds collide that's what I meant to say when they took off only white people good genetics were allowed to get on that ship that movie is stupid those guards surrounding the complex there's supposed to make sure that there's no sabotage a crowd or mob coming in so when they take off well they going to be stuck they won't get a chance to save their families or themselves
Ça reste un très bon film pour l’époque..merci pour le pt..
Gracias por subir esta joya!🥰
Good old movie thanks .....I see they have stars on this Moon Landing .............👽👽👽
@Cult Cinema Classics - thank you so much for posting this!! I’ve just watched it the whole way through, the first time since a long time ago, most likely a Saturday Matinee on UK TV in the early 1970s. Brilliant memories. Thank you.
That movie was really good ( especially after the first half hour), with ( surprising at times) attention to detail.
I expect it was an early environmentalist coming to scrub the mission with a court injunction.
This movie has one helluva pedigree: George Pal production, based on a Robert A Heinlein book with artwork by the incomparable Chesley Bonestell, with direction from the well-known Irving Pichel.
Well said bg😊
‘I’ve got a first-reader lesson all drawn up for them.’ I love this sort of dialog. It’s like Mamet or Tarantino dialog more recently.
Goodness... During the intro credits, I heard distinct scoring elements of the 1944 film Laura. A great movie, Laura, and an even greater score by David Raksin.
I don't recall seeing this before, but that's an old memory for ya. Excellent movie and special effects. Thanks for posting this.The captain and the guy from Brooklyn are familiar from other movies also.
I saw this at the Colonial Theater in Augusta, Maine, with every kid in my neighborhood when it came out. I was eight in June of 1950.
What a wonderfully visionary film! Much of the science and the psychology ring true today. One would expect both science, engineering and imagination from Robert Heinlein. Heinlein went on to author such classics as STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE, THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, and FRIDAY. George Pal went on to produce such films as THE TIME MACHINE, THE WONDERUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, and THE SEVEN FACES OF DOCTOR LAO. Historical note: When DESTINATION MOON was made (1950), the world was wstill using vacuum tube technology, considered black and white analog TV a miracle, and hadn't gotten used to Cinemascope.
É necessário entender que esse filme foi idealizado 8 anos antes da fundação da NASA, 19 anos antes do homem pousar na Lua . Realmente, foi escrito por um visionário.
Love this 50s Sci-Fi ... it makes me fantasize as a kid again! ... escaping authorities with cease-and-desist order, "Can't heeeear a word you say!" - Priceless!
That's probably where Ronald Reagan got the idea of not hearing an inconvenient question as he got in his helicopter.
There were of course many things that you could criticise this film for but the number of things they got right was absolutely stunning! Even the backward steps down the ladder were a bit like Neil Armstrong. Of course they overdid the acceleration effects but it really looked as if they went to the trouble of putting each one of them into a centrifuge to pull their faces back. They correctly showed them being in freefall while on their way to the moon, and space-walking, and using a gas bottle to move around was the way the Gemini astronauts did it (of course with a purpose-made gas gun and an umbilical). The photographs of each other were exactly what the Apollo astronauts did, and to have the earth in the sky like the moon from the earth - first seen for real with Apollo 8. Pictures of the earth as they were leaving it - correctly with mainly clouds visible rather than landmasses. And really the landing was very much like the real thing, looking at the potential landing spots and choosing one - even having reduced choice because of being short of fuel.
Gorgeous film. Drastic coloring.
Surprisingly correct for a 1950s movie.
Except now we know that the moon is covered by a powdery sandy regolith two to ten meters deep resulting from all of the asteroid and meteor impacts.
almost as good as the 1969 movie ! the take-off scene, with the g's on the faces, is impressive. the weightlessness in the rocket too. the material is well designed, and the spacesuits in color, a great idea. an excellent film of this era !
🤔🤨 *WHAT* 1969 movie? Are you an Apollo denier? 😳🤯
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@@WilliamRWarrenJr i worked for nasa, on an ejection seat program. i learned a lot of things there 😉
@@abelroy Cool story, bro.
@@abelroy Good for you.
The ship and couches in this movie are very similar to the ones drawn in the tintin comic book series. The comic is even called destination moon it did come out after this movie and follow similar but not identical plot line
The ship design in both Tin Tin and this film are typical of what rockets to the moon were expected to look like, based as they were on the German V2.
Never heard of this film before. Not bad. Always loved Heinlein.
Two space thumbs up!!
Always loved how magnetic boots were thought to be needed.
love the woody carton at 12:07
The best EVER, classic.
I saw this in 1958 or so when I was about 8 or 9. My sister and I shared a bedroom back then and whenever she'd have friends over to stay the night my parents would make up a bed for me in the living room. I'd stay up late watching scifir movies and this is one of the ones I watched. I loved these old scifi movies when I was a kid. The Angry Red Planet was another favorite of mine. I was too young to realize the science was not even close to being factual. That was the fun of being a kid, having the imagination to believee this stuff.
Eu vi este filme quando criança! Boa época de filmes memoráveis da ficção-científica!
Excellent - it's in color. Many thanks.
I have Destination Moon on DVD, but subscribed because you posted it!
Welcome Cult Classic Cinephile!
Man, what classic Heinleinist material! (Thought experiments about the future!)
Good movie ❤
Mmm 👸
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Very advanced for 1950...impressive.
Thanks for uploading this masterpiece. I think, even Elon Musk will like this movie!
I guess this was a forerunner of Apollo 13 where they had to construct something with bits of the craft in order to get back safely.
Little did those film makers way back then knew how prophetic that was.
However I just couldn't help laughing at some of the scenes. Especially when they carried out the ladder to help them get to the ground. Also what a stroke of luck to have a saw that could cut through metal in order to throw parts of the ship out. I wonder who's idea it was to pack that and what they thought it would be used for?
The thing that amazed me the most was all the litter they left after them. Hardly a day on the moon and they were already throwing their trash around.
Like all scifi, one has to suspend belief and just enjoy the show. Thanks for uploading.
This island Earth
Great movie!
Watch the mystery science theater 3000 version of this island earth one of thebest ofthe mst3k treated movies
Love those technicians in their snap-brim Fedoras, checking out the prototype --wearing hats indoors. My pop wore a hat like that all the time.
Realizare excelentă pentru acei ani. Despre broșura SF (vreo 10-12 pagini) cu desene pentru copii, tipărite prin anii '60 cca cu titlul "FOC ÎN LUNĂ " își amintește vreun "copil" ai anilor respectivi? Atât desenele cât și tema erau grozave, fascinante...
Such bright and colorful space suits these guys got. Fashion design was important in space travel in the 50s.
🤣🤣🤣 Looks like ski gear for the 70's
A classic….thanks for the upload….
The design of the single stage rocket was elegant and was used in many space movies back then. It was like the ideal space ship. The multi-stage rocket concept by Warner Von Braun was still a few years away from showing that it was the way to get into space.
Thats why nuclear propulsion for energy was needed to get to the moon, I presume. With a conventional rocket you couldn't take anything like enough fuel to get to the moon and back.
Looked a lot like a V2 rocket.
@@suzi_mai For a 1950's sci-fi Hollywood movie about going to the Moon and back, the V2 was certainly close enough fer rock 'n roll.
@@suzi_maithought the same.
Seven years before Sputnik, 11 before JFK, 19 before Apollo 11... how prescient!
They actually called it the ‘V2 rocket’. 16:15. I understand Von Braun was involved in the US space program but I hadn’t realized it was so openly acknowledged.
The film that started the first great age of science fiction movies during the 1950s.
its funny how hollywood seemed to predict the futur back then,good ol movie👍👍👍
1950, wow, great movie
This was an excellent movie 🙂 thank you so much for it 🙂
One thing I've always loved about these 1950's ( well...Late 1940's actually since this was made in 1950 ) is that the people about to go to space or the moon often wore dress shoes because this was the 1950's and even if you're about to go into space you still need to look the part and dress like a proper gentleman 😄😄😄
They could have worn army boots or sneakers but no...They had to wear dress shoes...
I'm surprised they didn't wear ties too...They might come into contact with unknown life forms so I guess it's important to make the best impression 🙂🙂🙂
And you had to walk properly with magnet shoes in zero gravity, no crazy casual floating about.
@@michaeljensen2833 Yeah...They took their space exploration very seriously back then 🙂🙂
neckties would've been cool. Like Jonathan Harris in "Lost in Space".
@@bryanttillman Oh yes absolutely 🙂🙂
Actually, why stop there ?
How about cuff links too 🙂 ?
This one being one of the earliest is one of the best, seems more like a propaganda movie than a sci fi movie, with all the extreme paranoia and fear the USA was living in, suggesting the first country to reach the moon would be able to launch missiles from it.
The red scare they called it, the USA was whipped up into a frenzy much like when could hit, although that was actually real.
John Archer was handsome forever. He was the cad in She Devil with Mari Blanchard. Black and white. Loved it!!!!
John was also one of the cops out to get James Cagney in the gangster classic White Heat 1949.
@@randyacuna5643 RANDY, THX!! I'LL LOOK IT UP. YOU HAVE TO HAVE GRIT TO STAND UP TO CAGNEY OR GOOD LOOKS!😀
@Patricia Piper heat is arguably cagney's best gangster film. And archer has never had a better role then this classic.
@@randyacuna5643 THX RANDY, LOOKED UP THE MOVIE BUT WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR IT TO COME ALONG. NOBODY HAS EVER ACCOMPLISHED THE BLAST OF ANGER AND RAGE LIKE MR. CAGNEY!!!!😮😀💪💪💪🤯👀👀👀
@FRANKIE RIO if you notice in my comment, I said heat is arguably cagney's best gangster film., not his best movie. Read carefully before you give your comments.
"We'll take off tomorrow morning! A lot to do in just 17 hours!" On the 17th no-less! From Texas!
Brigham Young Had A vision Of A Huge Earthquake Hitting New York City With Highrises Leaning On Each Other !!!!
I can’t see doing this style of prez to the Board !
I enjoyed every moment of this. Thanks so much. 🌎🌕
Stanley Kubrick really liked this movie. And I love it too ❤❤❤
From opening credits: Martin Eisenberg was a superb crafter of sci-fi scenes, Chesley Bonestell an acclaimed space illustrator who influenced the NASA Moon program through his promotion of it, Robert Brower a color filming innovator who worked on many TV shows (including MASH.) And let’s not overlook Walt Lantz, creator of Woody “eh, eh, eh, EH, eh” Woodpecker!
This was so beautiful