Im not sure if anyone has left this idea yet, but nasa did inspire the idea that rockets would be launched from water into space that were mars-bound or lunar trips. The ship "NOVA", intended for mars, was presented as a design to Eisenhower in 1959.
I'd venture and proffer to say that this great early effort by Fritz Lang may have become the impetus to Amelia Earhart and the later development of feminism. It definitely shows great influence to the later science fiction special effects of my favorite of all time- Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey. -Mark Seibold, retired IT Tech, Artist-Astronomy Educator, Portland Or.
I don't know why, but I'm not getting a single note of music. It is truly a silent film. For ages man thought that the moon was made of green cheese. Then we went there and found out that it was just made of rock. We haven't been back since.
@thredass You shouldn't be the Germans invented rocket science. America knows nothing of this science. The American rocket/space program was developed by German scientists who after the War the US Defense Department brought over. They developed our rocket science that we used to send a man to the moon. All the German scientists from this time period are dead now, and American scientists cant figure the German rocket science out! The nazi scientists perfected rocket science.
@jeancocteau1 well, come to think of it , you're right. Operation paperclip brought german scientists to the usa and thus rocket science came along. But I think that rocket staging and watercooled lunchpads (water sprayed to be precise) came later during the 50's. But I'd have to check on this because I'm not shure 100%
@jeancocteau1 The person who first started launching, sad to say, was Goddard, the one that got laughed at and called "Moonie", due to the fact that he said that mankind would someday go to the moon. That was around the early to mid '20s.
Great new book (Did these stories really happen?) has info on Fritz Lang and his movies! Plus, a dedication to Star Trek actor Bill Shatner! Book at amazon!
I wonder how much of this kind of thing was intended for predictive programing for that generation as Star Trek was to our own. Of the German technology and planners, I also can wonder what they had up their sleeves because it sure looks like what US moon program 30 years later.
Well, von Braun started to work with Hermann Oberth in 1929, who published "Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen" in 1923 already and was an adviser on Lang's movie. So von Braun was more inspired by Oberth than by this movie, I'd guess.
@JONNOG88....he only got as far because in the1930s, with the rise of Hitler, the Germans ploughed lots of money into the technology to make powerful weapons....essentially to re-start the first world war, this time to win the war! They directed the technology at British cities, but still lost yet ANOTHER war!
Braun would never have got anywhere without the work done by Russian and American scentists who really invented liquid propellants.
Cool ! Thanx for posting this ! That rocket has air intakes that look surprisingly like an F15's. But then again, those controls would give a Motie Engineer a heart attack ( give me a sign anybody who gets that last one ).
I was a space nut kid in the '50s. I made Estes rockets and had some accidents we won't talk about when the Estes catalog was "Ditto." Treat yourself and check out the 1933 song "Ich Kauf'
Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!! god, I have been searching for ANY clip related to this movie! Also, I feel sorry for the guy who thought of the Moon rocket(1:14-1:23). That has happened to me in class too many times :(
My understanding was that German rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth designed the rocket and wanted to build a working model for the film. It didn't work out, so Lang had to rely on technical trickery.
And these days, we are converting our model rockets (like I'm planning to do with my Friede) into flying estes models!! Back in the day, Hermannn oberth Couldn't even get one rocket off the ground!
Yes, its really a great film. The video came with "Star Wars Theme" played on an electric organ! Horrid & so out of place for this old film. I replaced it with some music off an old CD.
The film is best known for it's invention of the countdown before the rocket launches. Prof. Hermann Oberth whose books inspired Wernher von Braun in his youth was a scientific advisor on the film.
The film makes use of all the known special effects techniques of the time, particularly model effects and the Schüfftan mirror technique.
Hhaha...I noticed that too. With all the "modern" advancements, ya still have to climb a dangerous rope ladder to get onboard! Also the controls are badly located. You have to twist sideways in your bed to operate them. I guess thats why its science FICTION!
so bin ne sau
HyonMarionmm30 2 months ago
actually the distance shots are quite amazing
RD19902010 6 months ago
Im not sure if anyone has left this idea yet, but nasa did inspire the idea that rockets would be launched from water into space that were mars-bound or lunar trips. The ship "NOVA", intended for mars, was presented as a design to Eisenhower in 1959.
Also you can wikipedia or google "Sea Dragon:
Aldskate164 8 months ago
Herman Oberth was technical director for this film.
Skytroop 8 months ago
I'd venture and proffer to say that this great early effort by Fritz Lang may have become the impetus to Amelia Earhart and the later development of feminism. It definitely shows great influence to the later science fiction special effects of my favorite of all time- Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey. -Mark Seibold, retired IT Tech, Artist-Astronomy Educator, Portland Or.
cosmiclight 9 months ago
Why am I getting no sound? Everything else seems to be working.
1958debs 11 months ago
@1958debs This is silent movie sir.
buddyeagle 8 months ago
you forgot to mention a very important thing... Gustav Von Wangenheim is in this film!! lol
Leebsterftw 1 year ago
very intereting even from scientific view of today, but mostly as part of a dream of conquering outer space...
KurdstanPlanetarium 1 year ago
Hollywood TV moon landings apollo hoax
Nasa is a disease
fuckutube74 1 year ago
was the dame supposed to be facsimile of amelia earhart?
diddymuck 1 year ago
Stop laughing boob beard! 1:03
DeLorean4 1 year ago
Ahmedinejad at 1:00 ftw!
ahz123 1 year ago
I don't know why, but I'm not getting a single note of music. It is truly a silent film. For ages man thought that the moon was made of green cheese. Then we went there and found out that it was just made of rock. We haven't been back since.
capttheo1 1 year ago
When I first saw the title, I thought Ralph Kramden finally made good on his promise to Alice:"To da moon!"
Perktube1 1 year ago
...the missile is kept into a big shelter and is transported to the launch point along a railway in the same mode as the APOLLO's of 40 years later
hotello2009 1 year ago
my god.... in 1929 this filmaker had a pretty good vision of modern rockets!
event with rocket staging and watercooled launch...wow I'm amazed
thredass 1 year ago
@thredass You shouldn't be the Germans invented rocket science. America knows nothing of this science. The American rocket/space program was developed by German scientists who after the War the US Defense Department brought over. They developed our rocket science that we used to send a man to the moon. All the German scientists from this time period are dead now, and American scientists cant figure the German rocket science out! The nazi scientists perfected rocket science.
jeancocteau1 1 year ago
@jeancocteau1 well, come to think of it , you're right. Operation paperclip brought german scientists to the usa and thus rocket science came along. But I think that rocket staging and watercooled lunchpads (water sprayed to be precise) came later during the 50's. But I'd have to check on this because I'm not shure 100%
thredass 1 year ago
@jeancocteau1 The person who first started launching, sad to say, was Goddard, the one that got laughed at and called "Moonie", due to the fact that he said that mankind would someday go to the moon. That was around the early to mid '20s.
1958debs 11 months ago
Great new book (Did these stories really happen?) has info on Fritz Lang and his movies! Plus, a dedication to Star Trek actor Bill Shatner! Book at amazon!
Bestmanme08 1 year ago
I wonder how much of this kind of thing was intended for predictive programing for that generation as Star Trek was to our own. Of the German technology and planners, I also can wonder what they had up their sleeves because it sure looks like what US moon program 30 years later.
eotto2001 2 years ago
is this the original soundtrack?
DoktorTim 2 years ago
G force...piece of cake
Ypipable 2 years ago
I Believe the moon is made of green cheese.
ConnaughtVaughan 2 years ago
The world will progress when the education of the ignorant is not met with laughter, after all.
Ozarkeree 2 years ago
eh? The world will progress when people can laugh and joke....you're just a miserable weirdo with a bottle of sour grapes juice stuck up your rectum.
The moon IS made of green cheese!
ConnaughtVaughan 2 years ago
...I was encouraging your hypothesis with a quote from the film. XD
Ozarkeree 2 years ago
The Universe is also made of green cheese...
ConnaughtVaughan 2 years ago
This film inspired Werner Von Braun. Then living in his native Germany to design the Saturn 5 rocket. That would one day carry Apollo 11 to the moon.
JONNOG88 2 years ago
Well, von Braun started to work with Hermann Oberth in 1929, who published "Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen" in 1923 already and was an adviser on Lang's movie. So von Braun was more inspired by Oberth than by this movie, I'd guess.
Thespilian 2 years ago
@JONNOG88....he only got as far because in the1930s, with the rise of Hitler, the Germans ploughed lots of money into the technology to make powerful weapons....essentially to re-start the first world war, this time to win the war! They directed the technology at British cities, but still lost yet ANOTHER war!
Braun would never have got anywhere without the work done by Russian and American scentists who really invented liquid propellants.
ConnaughtVaughan 2 years ago
Fair enough.
You have enlighened me Sir.
JONNOG88 2 years ago
Adolph (or was it Rudolph?) has landed....
toretreskjegg 2 years ago
Just 40 years after this was made, the first humans actually stepped onto the Moon's surface. In the 40 years since, nothing. I'm just saying.
ZoltanLazlo 2 years ago
Nothing! you are ignorant.
Pedronology 2 years ago
I guess we need the Cold War back ;) That was also the reason for inventing the Internet in the first place.
kkinski2000 2 years ago
Cool ! Thanx for posting this ! That rocket has air intakes that look surprisingly like an F15's. But then again, those controls would give a Motie Engineer a heart attack ( give me a sign anybody who gets that last one ).
chialeux514 2 years ago
Larry Niven
"The Mote in Gods' Eye".
At least the "Destination Moon" guys had controls over their acceleration couches.
jsl151850b 2 years ago
Very interesting!Thanks for sharing this film!
FilmTraum9 3 years ago 3
"The world will progress when the education of the ignorant is not met with laughter" .. so true !
faisalq8t 3 years ago 2
great film thanks for uploading this!
only257 3 years ago
Man has yet to become an interplanetary traveler due to the deadly effects of cosmic radiation.
procommenter 3 years ago
As great as I was told it was! Sure looks like the shuttle on the ramp coming out!!
jmen4ever 3 years ago
I was a space nut kid in the '50s. I made Estes rockets and had some accidents we won't talk about when the Estes catalog was "Ditto." Treat yourself and check out the 1933 song "Ich Kauf'
Mir 'ne Rakete," by Weintraub's Syncopators.
whizbang47 3 years ago
This is a RARE video. I love antique stuff!!!!! I love this
moviedudeinc 3 years ago 2
Thx for posting!
uberover 3 years ago 2
Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!! god, I have been searching for ANY clip related to this movie! Also, I feel sorry for the guy who thought of the Moon rocket(1:14-1:23). That has happened to me in class too many times :(
schnellbomber87 3 years ago 2
My understanding was that German rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth designed the rocket and wanted to build a working model for the film. It didn't work out, so Lang had to rely on technical trickery.
PonyExpressNYC 4 years ago
And these days, we are converting our model rockets (like I'm planning to do with my Friede) into flying estes models!! Back in the day, Hermannn oberth Couldn't even get one rocket off the ground!
schnellbomber87 3 years ago
Sonuvagun, that was one quick lift-off! Maybe being launched from a swimming pool did the trick.
Hey, does anyone out there have the footage from "Weltraumschiff 1 Startet"???
smurfswacker 4 years ago
Yes, its really a great film. The video came with "Star Wars Theme" played on an electric organ! Horrid & so out of place for this old film. I replaced it with some music off an old CD.
KKD1247 4 years ago 2
The film is best known for it's invention of the countdown before the rocket launches. Prof. Hermann Oberth whose books inspired Wernher von Braun in his youth was a scientific advisor on the film.
The film makes use of all the known special effects techniques of the time, particularly model effects and the Schüfftan mirror technique.
Albert62789 1 year ago
@KKD1247
Albert62789 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading the movie, they mentioned it in the BBC documentary "Space Race" so I wanted to see it.
And is that the original music, or did you add it yourself?
ckikilwai 4 years ago 4
I love that the woman has to climb a ladder to get into the moon-rocket!
bigbear1963 4 years ago 2
Hhaha...I noticed that too. With all the "modern" advancements, ya still have to climb a dangerous rope ladder to get onboard! Also the controls are badly located. You have to twist sideways in your bed to operate them. I guess thats why its science FICTION!
Anyway, I still love the movie!
KKD1247 4 years ago
@KKD1247 thats why apollo "astronauts" dangeled on wires on beach sand, hahahaa
Quex01 1 year ago