Conquest of Space - Trailer (1955)

[CristinaFernandez]

George Pal was an incredible visionary.

[ParadiseOnLand]

Watch out for enraged, racialist niggers!

[SpaceChronologyCom]

Nonsense, first pictures of Earth from space were taken in 1947.

[nicklegosy]

its 2010 and they say say 2000 and it dint happened yet!!!!!!

[Perktube1]

I like the photos from that japanese hi-def  moon satellite, where they re-shot the earth-rise.

[georgeflacker]

Super Cool/ Cheesy at the same time. Got to love Sci-Fi

[MrSuedehead72]

fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!

[HIMnatic]

Space Speed Indicator. That says it all. Awesome-

[ripley4O77]

@HIMnatic Heheh, agreed.

[davidrodgersNJ]

@HIMnatic Yeah, that's so they wouldn't confuse it with the air speed indicator, which might lead to a tragic accident.

[ClinicalAttacked]

Interesting how sci-fi movies even before the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 were actually scientifically accurate and predicted many real spaceflight events of the 1960s... people were very optimistic back then... sad how all the optimism and excitement about manned spaceflight had all vanished since the introduction of the space shuttle in 1979-1981... that project replaced manned Mars landing and Venus manned orbit projects scheduled for the 1980s... sticking us to low-earth orbit.

[candr]

@ClinicalAttacked

Oh I don't know, folk still got their dreams, just now they know its possible. Where I use to watch Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon and "dream", my granddaughter "plans" to be the first bio-chemist on that planet. Second plan is to play Lady Macbeth on the ship on the way out.

[rangeclerk]

@ClinicalAttacked It was the politicans both RIGHT & LEFT that have destroyed our manned space operations. NOTE: The Shuttle Program as built on half it budget. Inflation cut NASA's Shuttle budget in half and Congress nor the Office of the President made up the difference: SEE ENTERPRISE-1976 book Jerry Grey

[hebneh]

As I remember, they plant seeds on Mars which the crewman from Hawaii brought with him, and at the end it rains, so the seeds sprout. This is depicted as a good and hopeful thing, not as the potential destruction of an existing Martian ecosystem.

Alas that we seem to have missed that "year 2000 AD" target date for this grand and glorious adventure to have played out in real lift.

[pbrennan]

the movie's worth a look, but honestly I expected better from George Pal. I'm a huge fan of space movies and this one was just boring. Sorry.

[politicalanomaly]

yes, that makes sense

the greatest true story made

before it happens!

[GreatBigSea1968]

A great, underrated movie produced by the great George Pal!

[AusDavid12]

Sometime before the year 2000 AD! mmm...

[oldclassicmovies]

Great trailer for a great movie!

If you are interested, I have this movie on my channel.

[CaptainNomura]

I have a VHS movie of this, bought two decades ago. Great classic. Von Braun's vision on big screen.

[marcparella]

This is really amazing considering no one in 1955 knew what the Earth really looked like from space. If you are over 45 years, you probably remember the first Apollo pictures showing the Earth from the moon.

[rangeclerk]

@marcparella yep! Turned 59 this last Apr 2 2010!

[DevilMaster]

They anted to go for absolute realism, so it's surprising that nobody considered that nothing in space can repeatedly change direction by itself (like the space station does at 0:45 and 0:54).

[only257]

impressive special effects the giant asteroid looks like the asteroid from the green slime!

[only257]

agreed inmate42392!

[d3p3ch3mod3]

40s-60s were the best era of scifi EVER before star wars came along and made it impossible to tell the difference between scifi and action fantasy

[lsknuo]

un velocimetro analogico que marca la "velocidad espacial" en millas por hora, genial.

[pipe161]

mundo viejuno!

[pylgrym]

I just can't wait until the year 2000!

[DelMinor]

I'm with ya man! Our cars will run on apple juice and never touch the ground!

[Shlafrock]

I just love the special effects lol.

[LoveCraken]

Yeah, I'm just in love with the old FX. It was interesting the way they did things before CGI. Not saying CGI is bad or particularly easy but there's something really pretty about what most people by today's standards would consider "bad" special effects. Plastic models, visible strings, screens to portray a background, men in suits, matte paintings- I love it all.

[NoisyTraitor]

"Space Speed Indicator" LOL I love these old movies.

[jasb7]

Thanx a lot, Adler!!!