And I noticed that the screen play and the tech supervisor was Robert Heinlein who was a wonderful SF writer from the 40's,50's and 60's. His first editions books are much valued, and he was decades ahead of his time.
people today need to realize how cutting edge this all was- we take it for granted now, but when I was a kid this was the stuff dreams are made of.
The reason i don't like this movie as much as i probably should is because the characters are not likable, its makes me wonder why these idiots were chosen to go instead of competent people. But again, its just a movie.
The style of the movie is remarkably similar to communist propaganda movies from the same era. Only the signs are switched "plus" for the "minus" and vice versa ;-))
@PetrFM Yes, here in Sweden, during the Cold War, almost every time they aired a Soviet film on TV (not very often), they "warned" that it was some kind of "propaganda". But, never when they aired an American film, even if it was extreamely patriotic...
Really quite a good sci-fi movie. The captain said a very appropriate line for his first comment on the surface. Just as immortal as "One small step for man one giant leap for mankind". Nice that Sweeney was willing to sacrifice himself for the crew but ingenious the way they solved it. They seem to have gotten most of the things right except the way they walked on the moon -- seemed to gravitational to me.
Since our moon was previously part of the Earth, It has enormous amount of high grade heavy metals and rare metals that can be used in computers, electronics, communications, avionics, radar and guided missiles.
@MrVrsilvestrejr2008 Umm no. Your Fission theory is wrong. It would require an inconceivably large force, either internal or external, to blast something as large as the Moon out of the Earth. It hardly seems possible that much, if anything, on Earth could survive such a catastrophe. In fact, most of the material blasted out would either escape the Earth's gravity, or fall back onto the surface, so the mass involved would have to have been much larger even than the present mass of the Moon.
@islandsylph Since current theory involves Moon creation as a result of cosmic collision long before the development of life on Earth ... I fail to see your point.
@smart451cab You fail to see my point? Perhaps you should take 2 seconds of your valuable time and refer to the posting of the person "I" was replying to who suggested that the moon was once a part of the earth. I told that person fission theory is incorrect, so I cannot imagine why you would bother stating the obvious in question of my own posting, that the moon is a result of cosmic collision. Well ............. DUH
My dad worked in the space program in the late fifties/early sixties when I was in grade school. This brings back memories of what it was like to be reading science fiction and science fact back then. Enjoy, younger folks. I truly thought we'd have colonies on the moon and even on Mars by now.
A lot of NASA people got their inspiration for joining the space program from this movie. Its dated but in the 1950s it wasn't. Still one of the best space movies ever made. At least there weren't any cheesy monsters.
I like how they always have lunkheads on the ship. The NASA people usually all have advanced degrees in one thing or another. These guys have no physics training. With that said, I like this film.
It's always a bad plan to take an untrained, weird acting crewman along on the first lunar mission...my favorite line, after they land on the moon:: "Dere's tremendous excitement back on Oith!"
It's called sci-fi because even though ideas o theories from science are usually used. it does not use accurate information yet discovered. It's a good approach to the fact that they were an inspiration to modern space travel and it does show a lot of accurate facts., as they are real facts know to man for many years.
I saw when I was a kid in the 1950's a movie about somthing like this, I don't remember exactly, the moviewas that their were suppose to go to the moon, but for some reason somthing happen along the trip and they ended in Mars, where they encounter race of blind humans and when they finally return to Earth the combustible is not enough to land and they all go killed crashing in someplace on earth. Anybody ever saw something like this, please let me know the name of the movie.
@richard4677 The film you're thinking of is ROCKETSHIP X-M, a cheapie knockoff made by Kurt Neumann for the sole purpose of beating DM into theatres. It's around on DVD.
@jrcadet4 Thank you very much, I apreciated this gesture. You see when I saw this movie, I was just a kid, like 10 years old and the movie provoque a funny feeling in me, because I don't remember who, told me that problably Mars was populated with blind entitys, like two or three years before I saw the movie. Strange isn't it?..Anyway thank you once more.
@richard4677 Glad to be of help. I've got an eidetic memory for the damnedest things, including S-F media trivia; nice to have put it to productive use in this instance. Cheers!
There's a parrot here on Youtube posting the same uneducated crap over and over again on just about every Apollo related site. It has several accounts and even answers itself under different names.
Are you guys kidding? This movie was BRILLIANT for it's time! I guarantee Ron Howard watched this as a youngster. Apollo 13 was probably created with this kind of drama in mind. If you don't want to watch retro movies then just don't. This movie was 1 of the reasons that 'Star Wars' became possible. Like anything it has to evolve, I am just pleased as punch that ampopfilms uploaded it here. Kudos to you ampop!
When a student aid at a community college in OC CA was able to get the record album when it was re-released and used parts of the music in my planetarium shows at the college I was giving to the general public and some of the college classes---astronomy and philosophy classes--Head of the Philo class was a close and dear friend to Ray Bradbury whom I got to met many times when he would come to talk to the philosophy classes in the late 70s and 80s.
Have to laugh! I remember being in 5th grade, and the Nun, asked us to go to the head of the class, one by one, so as to tell about something they enjoyed recently.
When it was my turn, I began by telling about this movie I saw call "Demonstration Moon." The class all broke out laughing. It was then I knew I had said the title wrong. However, that said, as amaturish these old Sci Fi movies are, it held our attention, and are still worth a watch.
OK, but Your boulder doesn't reach a sustainable orbit only with the help of the railgun. If You don't give it some extra velocity in the right direction, it will crash at Your launching site after one orbit. And, then You'll have to accelerate it to escape velocity in the exact moment. To be able to hit any point on the Earth the boulders must be placed in polar orbits around the Moon. Which, of course is just as easy to reach as any other kind of orbit.
@Quex01 Of course these actors were better on acting than the Apollo astronauts, since the astronauts weren't actors, but the highest ranked military testpilots in USA...
I saw this when I was a boy and enjoyed it. Then I saw The Thing From Another World, and that scared me to death. Couldn't really watch again until I was a teenager--even then, I felt a little creepy.
As a student going though college (2-yr) was able to get hired as a student aid to the astronomy instructor at Tessmann Planetarium located on the campus of Santa Ana College, SA CA.---they also had the largest planetarium there in OC, 30' across dome and could seat ~110. Planetarium shows of the 1970s always seemed to use HOLTZ The Planets---I used this music, Jaws, Alien, Seprico, Eltra-Glide In Blue; Patton, TV series Outer Limits (60s) Star Trek, Star Wars---also wrote and give shows..
I love the speech in the beginning where he explains why private industry is a way more powerful means to develop a space program than using the government. And indeed that proved to be true. Time to let private industry pay for the space program through space tourism.
@velveetaslingshot Private industry won't invest the required money, since it will take years to get their money back, let alone make a profit. Anyway, space travel is far from safe - only rich thrill seekers will go.
I remember when they landed on the moon, I was just a kid. Believe me, nobody knew what to expect. Everybody was watching on pin & needles. Neil Armstrong could have so screwed with everybody if he had wanted to become a butthole of historic proportions.
@mbarbarelli If I recall George Pal also did War of the Worlds and was a good friend of the guy who made Woody WoodPecker---noted he has a "cartoon" within this film and it said by movie buffs that a "Woodpecker" is in War of the Worlds..
Read "The Making of Destination Moon" in the collection "Requiem" sometime for Mr. Heinlein's account of the headaches they endured trying to get the film made and to duplicate the reality of space flight (based on what they knew at the time) on a sound stage, without computer effects... very interesting reading!!
Joe, would you like to take a totally unplanned, spur-of-the-moment, spontaneously concocted trip on a completely untested rocket with riveted portholes, whose month's worth of final details have been hastily completed in a few hours, with no time for backchecking, riding on top of a nuclear reactor pile all the way to the moon?
Sure.
Well, you're not coming then - we don't don't need another lunatic along on this trip!
@openvue "Destination Moon" was released in 1950. If you mean the footage of the differential analyzer (mechanical computer), it's stock footage that probably originally came from the military.
Space architect Wernher Von Braun helped develop the V2 during WWII. James Michener chronicled securing German scientists at Peenemunde for the U.S. in the novel Space.
Aurthur C. Clarke proposed the satellite early in his career. Compare the V2 design and storyline with 2001: A Space Odyssey, the failure of an antenna-radar and rescue.
The first "Trip to the moon" is attributed to Johannes Kepler by Louis Mumford in The Pyramid of Power. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
This was made in 1950 and the pilot in the movie has trouble landing and uses too much fuel trying to avoid a crater. The exact same thing happened in real life in 1969 when Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 had to avoid a crater in the Sea of Tranquility.
@razor71927 Before men actually went into space, nobody knew how humans would react to weightlessness. It was thought that using magnetic shoes to simulate "walking" inside the ship would make the astronauts feel more "normal." Today, we know that it's much quicker and easier to just give yourself a push and float over to where you want to go. It's also a lot more fun.
@jagdevsg A wall mural of medieval craftsmen in a forge or foundry; a style of office decoration very popular from the 1930s onwards, I think. As a child in California I remember seeing such murals at the LA Central Post Office, possibly Union Station, and several restaurants.
I laughed at 0:40:26 how the heck is he weightless but not the things in the drawer? You would think they would know that everything is weightless in space...not just us...good film though..wouldnt classify it under science fiction though..more like realistic fiction.
I laughed at 0:40:26 how the heck is he weightless but not the things in the drawer? You would think they would know that everything is weightless in space...not just us...good film though..wouldnt classify it under science fiction though..more like realistic fiction.
I laughed at 0:40:26 how the heck is he weightless but not the things in the drawer? You would think they would know that everything is weightless in space...not just us...good film though..wouldnt classify it under science fiction though..more like realistic fiction.
@Viz731 okay wait a sec I forgot the pill was floating when he was trying to put it in the guys mouth. So I guess they did pretty well at making this except that there seat belts don't float around.. :P
@fuckutube74 4kbram calculator for a computer? Where the heck did you get that idea?? What I was asking was for evidence, like video links or articles..
@77GSlinger Yeah too bad they did not watch this film, they could have prepared their moon landing hoax better. This film at least has the sky filled with stars unlike the fake apollo missions. Funny how the drama about everyone almost dying was repeated in the fake apollo 13 mission for sensationalist idiot box draw, because people were getting bored with the nasa show already. One thang they did fuck up in this film was they forgot to put a blast crater under the rocket, just like the nasa did
How can you ignore people like the one I'm commenting on? These people are truly stupid... I'm sure if you'd never seen a computer you'd think it fiction too.
@johnk7302 Well, it must be true, siince you said it... As far as stupidity and education goes, we definitely can conclude level you are at from statements you wrote. Cheers!
The music is fantastic, but the plot is ridiculous. Send a rocket to the moon on 17 hours notice, without any preliminary flights, and have an un-trained crewman aboard? And then they blame HIM when something goes wrong LMAO. Actually, the supposedly ignorant guy from Brooklyn was right about the rocket not getting off the ground.
if it wasnt for films like this we wouldnt have Sci-Fi movies like we do today. Alien, The day the earth stood still, ID4, Starship troopers were all inspired by movies like this. Destination Moon is a classic!
@dancevader A-Men to what u say Bro! This One & OF THINGS TO COME, THEM, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, and FORBIDDEN PLANET!
This one along with "Of Things to Come", not justed discussed the "science" but the some-what close-minded thinking of those who were and are still against Human Spaceflight & Human colonization of space. There was another one where AF folks travel to Mars but the Cmdr is actually against the mission---brain old and cannot remember the title.
@rangeclerk The George Pal movie about a mission to Mars where the commander looses his mind, is titled "Conquest of Space". Pal also made "The Time Machine", War of the Worlds" and "When Worlds Collide"
@YDDES Didn't he also do When the Earth Stood Still---1951? Also wasn't he the one they brought in to do the First STAR TREK FILM?---that film was just a repeat of a previous orig tv esp---The Changling--I think the title was.
@YDDES Thanks! Use to know that but over the yrs the brain cells have gotten crowed with crap----Like anything most of what a person does is excellent but there are always a few "stinkers" a producer/director, I suspect, would just go away. Saw recently on UTUBE the org 1984 but still am unable to purchase it on DVD. There is one that was done for TV (B/W) and another for film B/W.
The one in the mid 1980's, for me was awful----also mid 80's was a paperback called 1986 & had BIG SISTER---good
@rangeclerk Well, I thought the version of "1984" that was released in that year was quite good (at least the actors and settings), but I missed some parts from the novel. But, I know it's impossible to fit everything from a book into a film.
I know about the memory fading. Some years ago, I could write a lot of comments about films out of memory. Now I often have to check the information about the same movies, since it has escaped me.
This movie is very scientifically accurate. 30,000 ft/s exhaust velocity corresponds to about 1000s of specific impulse which is what we now know a solid core nuclear thermal rocket could achieve.
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MiraLizan 4 hours ago
Joes the jar jar binks of the 50's
SkillHornskillz 1 day ago
Really cool movie for 1950... I could only imagine going to a small town movie house to see this movie when it first came out !!!
black1959impala 2 days ago
Should have got an oscar for the special fx alone !
classic movie !
MrMeadfoot 2 days ago
Have a OWS occupier watch 16:51 - 19:22 and watch his brains melt.
newdefsys 2 weeks ago
Substitute Mars for Moon and have the CEOs from Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrup Grumman among others watch this movie.
isukaman 3 weeks ago
I love it ! It's a classic !
youreale 3 weeks ago
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Ferco1976 1 month ago
Nicely done- for over 60 years ago!
And I noticed that the screen play and the tech supervisor was Robert Heinlein who was a wonderful SF writer from the 40's,50's and 60's. His first editions books are much valued, and he was decades ahead of his time.
people today need to realize how cutting edge this all was- we take it for granted now, but when I was a kid this was the stuff dreams are made of.
-Bill in canada
baghend 1 month ago
The reason i don't like this movie as much as i probably should is because the characters are not likable, its makes me wonder why these idiots were chosen to go instead of competent people. But again, its just a movie.
Finnstudios 1 month ago
Was ambient music non-existant in the 50's?
Aradian6 1 month ago
Hah!! This is a blatant Tintin ripoff!!!
Aradian6 1 month ago
This is so nice! And the "conceptual" idea of the credits in Star Wars is very similar... Maybe George Lucas is fan of this movie..
OluapOirevlis 1 month ago
Did I sleep all the film?
kott707 2 months ago
You been eatin' green apples?
Arundodonax 2 months ago
Magasal ya maong so lasi!
satbautista 2 months ago
The style of the movie is remarkably similar to communist propaganda movies from the same era. Only the signs are switched "plus" for the "minus" and vice versa ;-))
PetrFM 2 months ago
@PetrFM Yes, here in Sweden, during the Cold War, almost every time they aired a Soviet film on TV (not very often), they "warned" that it was some kind of "propaganda". But, never when they aired an American film, even if it was extreamely patriotic...
YDDES 2 months ago
Ah..... thats where they got that idea for WALL-E! The extinguisher/oxygen tank sky dance!
nickpelkey 2 months ago
"BE SURE YOU TWIDDLE THE RIGHT KNOB"
Between that an Woody Woodpecker I was amused...
nickpelkey 2 months ago
Exactly the way Apollo 11 went to the Moon on July 20, 1969. In studio.
The only difference being director was a bit more sophisticated: Stanley Kubrick !
500mlBEERCAN 2 months ago
@500mlBEERCAN Who directed the other 5 Apollo moon landings?
luridplanet 2 months ago
@luridplanet There were some serious issues with those too, I can tell you that much.. :)
500mlBEERCAN 2 months ago
@500mlBEERCAN You sir are obviously uneducated. As the movie might state. You're like woody woodpecker.
johnk7302 4 days ago
MASSIVE
phimbac 2 months ago
wow, these are the titles george lucas used, drifting up into space, george pal has amazing career!
rme2121 3 months ago
A great classic!
ThePieffe63 4 months ago
The scientist's scornful reaction to the government forbidding nuclear rockets: "We told them all they gotta do is evacuate a 10-mile radius!"
luridplanet 5 months ago
Ironically they go home but leave all their crap.
flyingfisbeefilms 5 months ago
Really quite a good sci-fi movie. The captain said a very appropriate line for his first comment on the surface. Just as immortal as "One small step for man one giant leap for mankind". Nice that Sweeney was willing to sacrifice himself for the crew but ingenious the way they solved it. They seem to have gotten most of the things right except the way they walked on the moon -- seemed to gravitational to me.
patp464 5 months ago
Jesus H. Christ in chicken basket ! lol ..........
VistaManiac93 6 months ago
Since our moon was previously part of the Earth, It has enormous amount of high grade heavy metals and rare metals that can be used in computers, electronics, communications, avionics, radar and guided missiles.
MrVrsilvestrejr2008 7 months ago
@MrVrsilvestrejr2008 Umm no. Your Fission theory is wrong. It would require an inconceivably large force, either internal or external, to blast something as large as the Moon out of the Earth. It hardly seems possible that much, if anything, on Earth could survive such a catastrophe. In fact, most of the material blasted out would either escape the Earth's gravity, or fall back onto the surface, so the mass involved would have to have been much larger even than the present mass of the Moon.
islandsylph 6 months ago
@islandsylph Since current theory involves Moon creation as a result of cosmic collision long before the development of life on Earth ... I fail to see your point.
smart451cab 3 months ago
@smart451cab You fail to see my point? Perhaps you should take 2 seconds of your valuable time and refer to the posting of the person "I" was replying to who suggested that the moon was once a part of the earth. I told that person fission theory is incorrect, so I cannot imagine why you would bother stating the obvious in question of my own posting, that the moon is a result of cosmic collision. Well ............. DUH
islandsylph 3 months ago
My dad worked in the space program in the late fifties/early sixties when I was in grade school. This brings back memories of what it was like to be reading science fiction and science fact back then. Enjoy, younger folks. I truly thought we'd have colonies on the moon and even on Mars by now.
Lynne97030 7 months ago 5
Ronald Reagan must have seen this.
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AldisJarvis 8 months ago
I thought that this was gonna be Tintin: Destination Moon. I was wrong
birisumisu 8 months ago
Pretty awesome. I'm glad i watched it
ExecutiveLF 8 months ago
Omg I just was watching Star Wars III, full with cgi and great special effects, then someone sended me this movie and oh my god I love it XD
VinceHaaz 8 months ago
A great movie when you think you are watching sci-fi history...right up there with Flash Gordon, Star Trek and Star Wars.
wannabef2 8 months ago
A lot of NASA people got their inspiration for joining the space program from this movie. Its dated but in the 1950s it wasn't. Still one of the best space movies ever made. At least there weren't any cheesy monsters.
Spaceflightlover2010 8 months ago 4
go ahead oith...
cholerymorbilus 8 months ago
I like how they always have lunkheads on the ship. The NASA people usually all have advanced degrees in one thing or another. These guys have no physics training. With that said, I like this film.
eotto2001 9 months ago
a hore and buggy man i love it....
jimmark88 9 months ago
it shoud ecled destination mars
jenimarie69 10 months ago
It's always a bad plan to take an untrained, weird acting crewman along on the first lunar mission...my favorite line, after they land on the moon:: "Dere's tremendous excitement back on Oith!"
luridplanet 10 months ago
Corny but kinda cool. So lame now but I bet 1950's nerds were bouncing off the ceiling after this.
riverdale999 11 months ago 12
It's called sci-fi because even though ideas o theories from science are usually used. it does not use accurate information yet discovered. It's a good approach to the fact that they were an inspiration to modern space travel and it does show a lot of accurate facts., as they are real facts know to man for many years.
jcalderon415 11 months ago
I saw this movie sixty one years ago and was so excited by it my legs were shaking.. The real landing was almost like a replay of the movie.
adamgav1 11 months ago
I saw when I was a kid in the 1950's a movie about somthing like this, I don't remember exactly, the moviewas that their were suppose to go to the moon, but for some reason somthing happen along the trip and they ended in Mars, where they encounter race of blind humans and when they finally return to Earth the combustible is not enough to land and they all go killed crashing in someplace on earth. Anybody ever saw something like this, please let me know the name of the movie.
richard4677 11 months ago
@richard4677 The film you're thinking of is ROCKETSHIP X-M, a cheapie knockoff made by Kurt Neumann for the sole purpose of beating DM into theatres. It's around on DVD.
jrcadet4 11 months ago
@jrcadet4 Thank you very much, I apreciated this gesture. You see when I saw this movie, I was just a kid, like 10 years old and the movie provoque a funny feeling in me, because I don't remember who, told me that problably Mars was populated with blind entitys, like two or three years before I saw the movie. Strange isn't it?..Anyway thank you once more.
richard4677 11 months ago
@richard4677 Glad to be of help. I've got an eidetic memory for the damnedest things, including S-F media trivia; nice to have put it to productive use in this instance. Cheers!
jrcadet4 11 months ago
There's a parrot here on Youtube posting the same uneducated crap over and over again on just about every Apollo related site. It has several accounts and even answers itself under different names.
YDDES 11 months ago 13
@YDDES
Yeah I've noticed that too! I just ignore'm
joshanator1 2 months ago
@joshanator1 So do I, the best I can.
YDDES 2 months ago
wow, even back in the fifties they had guys play the comic relief role! lol
joshanator1 2 months ago
Oith????
trampletop 11 months ago
Everyone heard of the new Prehistoric Channel. Cool stuff for sci fi fans.
Just google PREHISTORIC CHANNEL.
prehistoric28 11 months ago
Are you guys kidding? This movie was BRILLIANT for it's time! I guarantee Ron Howard watched this as a youngster. Apollo 13 was probably created with this kind of drama in mind. If you don't want to watch retro movies then just don't. This movie was 1 of the reasons that 'Star Wars' became possible. Like anything it has to evolve, I am just pleased as punch that ampopfilms uploaded it here. Kudos to you ampop!
ricocb35 11 months ago 2
When a student aid at a community college in OC CA was able to get the record album when it was re-released and used parts of the music in my planetarium shows at the college I was giving to the general public and some of the college classes---astronomy and philosophy classes--Head of the Philo class was a close and dear friend to Ray Bradbury whom I got to met many times when he would come to talk to the philosophy classes in the late 70s and 80s.
rangeclerk 1 year ago
Have to laugh! I remember being in 5th grade, and the Nun, asked us to go to the head of the class, one by one, so as to tell about something they enjoyed recently.
When it was my turn, I began by telling about this movie I saw call "Demonstration Moon." The class all broke out laughing. It was then I knew I had said the title wrong. However, that said, as amaturish these old Sci Fi movies are, it held our attention, and are still worth a watch.
Livingni 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this classic . . . !
gojira2006 1 year ago
OK, but Your boulder doesn't reach a sustainable orbit only with the help of the railgun. If You don't give it some extra velocity in the right direction, it will crash at Your launching site after one orbit. And, then You'll have to accelerate it to escape velocity in the exact moment. To be able to hit any point on the Earth the boulders must be placed in polar orbits around the Moon. Which, of course is just as easy to reach as any other kind of orbit.
YDDES 1 year ago
They had even cheap Humprey Bogart clone as an astronaut, wow. If only Apollo actors were that good...
Quex01 1 year ago
@Quex01 Of course these actors were better on acting than the Apollo astronauts, since the astronauts weren't actors, but the highest ranked military testpilots in USA...
YDDES 1 year ago
true american heros, everybody enjoyed the show, hahaha
Quex01 1 year ago
Apollo missions where the same mickey mouse fiction, only made with much bigger resources. Everybody enjoyed it.
Quex01 1 year ago
I saw this when I was a boy and enjoyed it. Then I saw The Thing From Another World, and that scared me to death. Couldn't really watch again until I was a teenager--even then, I felt a little creepy.
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''I wonder who's pitching''
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Great music by Leith Stevens - very atmospheric. The cartoon version of TinTin from the 1960's used this for the Moon adventure too.
ewaf88 1 year ago
good job on this ampop, never seen it,,this was way out there for its time,
theres alot in here that relates to travel today,,,
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The DVD of this film looks like its a modern day independent flick made with adobe preimere. lol
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As a student going though college (2-yr) was able to get hired as a student aid to the astronomy instructor at Tessmann Planetarium located on the campus of Santa Ana College, SA CA.---they also had the largest planetarium there in OC, 30' across dome and could seat ~110. Planetarium shows of the 1970s always seemed to use HOLTZ The Planets---I used this music, Jaws, Alien, Seprico, Eltra-Glide In Blue; Patton, TV series Outer Limits (60s) Star Trek, Star Wars---also wrote and give shows..
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velveetaslingshot 1 year ago
Thank you for downloading this movie online. This is great entertainment.
PauleQueenie 1 year ago
I love the speech in the beginning where he explains why private industry is a way more powerful means to develop a space program than using the government. And indeed that proved to be true. Time to let private industry pay for the space program through space tourism.
velveetaslingshot 1 year ago
@velveetaslingshot Private industry won't invest the required money, since it will take years to get their money back, let alone make a profit. Anyway, space travel is far from safe - only rich thrill seekers will go.
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velveetaslingshot 1 year ago
I remember when they landed on the moon, I was just a kid. Believe me, nobody knew what to expect. Everybody was watching on pin & needles. Neil Armstrong could have so screwed with everybody if he had wanted to become a butthole of historic proportions.
beldapriest 1 year ago
The plot is ridiculous, no matter what scientific accuracy the movie has. But the music is so good!
luridplanet 1 year ago
Remarkable attempt at accuracy for 1950! George Pal was the man.
mbarbarelli 1 year ago
@mbarbarelli If I recall George Pal also did War of the Worlds and was a good friend of the guy who made Woody WoodPecker---noted he has a "cartoon" within this film and it said by movie buffs that a "Woodpecker" is in War of the Worlds..
rangeclerk 1 year ago
The people who disliked don't know good entertainment.
startrekgamer 1 year ago
Read "The Making of Destination Moon" in the collection "Requiem" sometime for Mr. Heinlein's account of the headaches they endured trying to get the film made and to duplicate the reality of space flight (based on what they knew at the time) on a sound stage, without computer effects... very interesting reading!!
Noldi400 1 year ago
I might guess that George Lucas got his
carlsetzer 1 year ago
super film bien typque des annees 60 j ai beaucoup aime merci !!
vieuxson 1 year ago
Wow;
Looks looks like a practice run for the f&ke lunar landing. LOL
Where is the duct (duck) tape.
MrWolfgangamadeus 1 year ago
F*king Commercials! Hate it!
roge69charger 1 year ago
tintin
nicklegosy 1 year ago
Is frozen 2010 coming out this month?
ginaven1 1 year ago
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LOL I love the Brooklyn Dodgers pre 1957 reference!
Viewing Earth From Outer Space: Can you see Brooklyn? - Yes there it is- I wonder who is pitching!
anotheruzrname24get 1 year ago
LOL I love the Brooklyn Dodgers pre 1957 reference!
Viewing Earth From Outer Space: Can you see Brooklyn? - Yes there it is- I wonder who is pitching!
anotheruzrname24get 1 year ago
Woody Woodpecker - I remember him from my childhood :)
He friggin scared me :(
TheCompleXz 1 year ago
53:57, the oxygen tank should not be that heavy in zero gravity :)
xrd1Hal9000 1 year ago
It's amazing how far we havecom since this movie came out.
preachermyron 1 year ago
Et, oui, notre Georges LUCAS, a un peu " copié "pour son intro, pas le seul, aussi .
DIDOU34600 1 year ago
this was the time when sci-fi didn't suck , thanks for the upload
HIDDENTECH2 1 year ago
8:50 " welcome to SpaceX" lol...
netsight 1 year ago
Joe, would you like to take a totally unplanned, spur-of-the-moment, spontaneously concocted trip on a completely untested rocket with riveted portholes, whose month's worth of final details have been hastily completed in a few hours, with no time for backchecking, riding on top of a nuclear reactor pile all the way to the moon?
Sure.
Well, you're not coming then - we don't don't need another lunatic along on this trip!
mattanaih 1 year ago
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I love this kind of film...
swisstrekkie 1 year ago
TELETUBIES ¿? HAHAH
Punkerdux 1 year ago
In 00:19:45, there is a footage from "When worlds collide (1952)", is that right?
openvue 1 year ago
@openvue "Destination Moon" was released in 1950. If you mean the footage of the differential analyzer (mechanical computer), it's stock footage that probably originally came from the military.
scotpens 1 year ago
@scotpens Yeah! Actually they have the same maker (George Pal), maybe that's why he used the same footage on both films.
openvue 1 year ago
"Did you see them? Bob and Bing, behind that rock?"
Grifiki 1 year ago
the ads seem to be targeted at an audience of MORONS.
i NEVER buy ANYTHING that is advertised.
stevendaleschmitt 1 year ago
Classic 1950's Sci-Fi......Special effects are a little campy as compared to todays standards but the story and presentation are still well done.
Azstinger 1 year ago
long ass ad before this lol
pittflyin 1 year ago
shit ads !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PISS OFF
FKTHPOPE 1 year ago
A Classic!
bwild61 1 year ago
ah ein döner
denni1928 1 year ago
Space architect Wernher Von Braun helped develop the V2 during WWII. James Michener chronicled securing German scientists at Peenemunde for the U.S. in the novel Space.
Aurthur C. Clarke proposed the satellite early in his career. Compare the V2 design and storyline with 2001: A Space Odyssey, the failure of an antenna-radar and rescue.
The first "Trip to the moon" is attributed to Johannes Kepler by Louis Mumford in The Pyramid of Power. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
spiritech999 1 year ago
good
cnesszzz 1 year ago
This was made in 1950 and the pilot in the movie has trouble landing and uses too much fuel trying to avoid a crater. The exact same thing happened in real life in 1969 when Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 had to avoid a crater in the Sea of Tranquility.
D4g4marc4 1 year ago
@D4g4marc4 uhm
cnesszzz 1 year ago
SUPERRRR DE MIEDOOOO ESTA LA PELI
leadesion 1 year ago
okay, so they went through all of that just to leave crap on the moon lalz
carpetmermaid 1 year ago
They did not need to wear iron-boots in the rocket? A person is almost weightless in space, all they had to do is jump up and hold on to something.
razor71927 1 year ago
@razor71927 Before men actually went into space, nobody knew how humans would react to weightlessness. It was thought that using magnetic shoes to simulate "walking" inside the ship would make the astronauts feel more "normal." Today, we know that it's much quicker and easier to just give yourself a push and float over to where you want to go. It's also a lot more fun.
scotpens 1 year ago
This movie reminds me why I started reading SF in the 1970s. I never saw it. Thank you very much.
TheShirEl 1 year ago
what is the painting in the background of the woody woodpecker scene...the one with the writing around the border?
jagdevsg 1 year ago
@jagdevsg A wall mural of medieval craftsmen in a forge or foundry; a style of office decoration very popular from the 1930s onwards, I think. As a child in California I remember seeing such murals at the LA Central Post Office, possibly Union Station, and several restaurants.
TheShirEl 1 year ago
@jagdevsg PS google "Maxfield Parrish."
TheShirEl 1 year ago
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I laughed at 0:40:26 how the heck is he weightless but not the things in the drawer? You would think they would know that everything is weightless in space...not just us...good film though..wouldnt classify it under science fiction though..more like realistic fiction.
Viz731 1 year ago
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I laughed at 0:40:26 how the heck is he weightless but not the things in the drawer? You would think they would know that everything is weightless in space...not just us...good film though..wouldnt classify it under science fiction though..more like realistic fiction.
Viz731 1 year ago
I laughed at 0:40:26 how the heck is he weightless but not the things in the drawer? You would think they would know that everything is weightless in space...not just us...good film though..wouldnt classify it under science fiction though..more like realistic fiction.
Viz731 1 year ago 11
@Viz731 lol good eyes
ginaven1 1 year ago
@Viz731 okay wait a sec I forgot the pill was floating when he was trying to put it in the guys mouth. So I guess they did pretty well at making this except that there seat belts don't float around.. :P
Viz731 1 year ago
@Viz731 when you think about it works as science fiction and realistic fiction simultaneously.
Retroscope200X 1 year ago
@Viz731 if you notice they have velcro on it
kingloey13 1 year ago
@Viz731
The Apollo Hoax missions from 1968-1972 is 100% Science Fiction
fuckutube74 1 year ago
@fuckutube74 Show me the evidence and the reason for your thoughts..
Viz731 1 year ago
@Viz731 LEM was a toy made of several layers of gold tin foil
No radiation shielding
no blue print
4kbram calculator for a computer
fuckutube74 1 year ago
@fuckutube74 4kbram calculator for a computer? Where the heck did you get that idea?? What I was asking was for evidence, like video links or articles..
Viz731 1 year ago
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@Viz731 lol ok
watch?v=y1tqZyZVoDM
fuckutube74 1 year ago
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@fuckutube74 100% yes. nasa is bullshit to the core.
77GSlinger 11 months ago
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@77GSlinger
Yes Nasa is Nazi bullshit
fuckutube74 11 months ago
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@77GSlinger Yeah too bad they did not watch this film, they could have prepared their moon landing hoax better. This film at least has the sky filled with stars unlike the fake apollo missions. Funny how the drama about everyone almost dying was repeated in the fake apollo 13 mission for sensationalist idiot box draw, because people were getting bored with the nasa show already. One thang they did fuck up in this film was they forgot to put a blast crater under the rocket, just like the nasa did
77GSlinger 11 months ago
How can you ignore people like the one I'm commenting on? These people are truly stupid... I'm sure if you'd never seen a computer you'd think it fiction too.
johnk7302 4 days ago
@johnk7302 Well, it must be true, siince you said it... As far as stupidity and education goes, we definitely can conclude level you are at from statements you wrote. Cheers!
500mlBEERCAN 3 days ago
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Viz731 1 year ago
Orange Spacesuits sounded like a pretty sensible idea... I wonder why the real ones were white....
imshadi 1 year ago
@imshadi don't quote me on this but i think the russians used orange ones, maybe they just wanted to be 'different' lol
el6caballo6oscuro6 1 year ago
Yes, I think so. Some else did. Probably them.
RDMinSC 1 year ago
Lack of imagination, IMHO, and I am old enough to remember the first launch.
RDMinSC 1 year ago
@imshadi The real ones are white to reflect the heat of the sun.
tailspin37 1 year ago
A nuclear thermal rocket engine with an ISP of 30,000? Impossible!
frbe0101 1 year ago
@frbe0101 you smell funny mister
shotfirer1972 1 year ago
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That because I had my dick up your ass.
frbe0101 1 year ago
It IS Science FICTION. It does not have to be possible.
RDMinSC 1 year ago
They forgot to plant the flag ...say this is Sci-Fi!
99gates 1 year ago
classic!
edspecks2004 1 year ago 2
Model Rockety was a bit difficult back in the early 1950's!
rangeclerk 1 year ago
great movie man. Do you happen to have the classic black and white movie The She Creature that you can upload by any chance?
neowarrior1 1 year ago
5 stars from me.
I really enjoyed this movie, because it had plenty of science, not just fiction (unlike most sci-fi movies from that era).
Especially when you consider that this movie was made 19 years before the first Apollo moon landing !
technologist1953 1 year ago 4
The music is fantastic, but the plot is ridiculous. Send a rocket to the moon on 17 hours notice, without any preliminary flights, and have an un-trained crewman aboard? And then they blame HIM when something goes wrong LMAO. Actually, the supposedly ignorant guy from Brooklyn was right about the rocket not getting off the ground.
luridplanet 1 year ago
its nice!!
kikobucoy 1 year ago
if it wasnt for films like this we wouldnt have Sci-Fi movies like we do today. Alien, The day the earth stood still, ID4, Starship troopers were all inspired by movies like this. Destination Moon is a classic!
dancevader 1 year ago 30
@dancevader A-Men to what u say Bro! This One & OF THINGS TO COME, THEM, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, and FORBIDDEN PLANET!
This one along with "Of Things to Come", not justed discussed the "science" but the some-what close-minded thinking of those who were and are still against Human Spaceflight & Human colonization of space. There was another one where AF folks travel to Mars but the Cmdr is actually against the mission---brain old and cannot remember the title.
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@rangeclerk The George Pal movie about a mission to Mars where the commander looses his mind, is titled "Conquest of Space". Pal also made "The Time Machine", War of the Worlds" and "When Worlds Collide"
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES Didn't he also do When the Earth Stood Still---1951? Also wasn't he the one they brought in to do the First STAR TREK FILM?---that film was just a repeat of a previous orig tv esp---The Changling--I think the title was.
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@rangeclerk Actually, it was Robert Wise who directed "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and "Star Trek - The Motion Picture".
Also: George Pal didn't direct most of his movies, he was the producer. He also made "Atlantis, The Lost Continent", and several other movies.
YDDES 1 year ago
@YDDES Thanks! Use to know that but over the yrs the brain cells have gotten crowed with crap----Like anything most of what a person does is excellent but there are always a few "stinkers" a producer/director, I suspect, would just go away. Saw recently on UTUBE the org 1984 but still am unable to purchase it on DVD. There is one that was done for TV (B/W) and another for film B/W.
The one in the mid 1980's, for me was awful----also mid 80's was a paperback called 1986 & had BIG SISTER---good
rangeclerk 1 year ago
@rangeclerk Well, I thought the version of "1984" that was released in that year was quite good (at least the actors and settings), but I missed some parts from the novel. But, I know it's impossible to fit everything from a book into a film.
I know about the memory fading. Some years ago, I could write a lot of comments about films out of memory. Now I often have to check the information about the same movies, since it has escaped me.
YDDES 1 year ago
This movie is very scientifically accurate. 30,000 ft/s exhaust velocity corresponds to about 1000s of specific impulse which is what we now know a solid core nuclear thermal rocket could achieve.
Jacnas 2 years ago 3
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Ahh, from the times when the US were not filled with religious lunatics...
libbern 2 years ago 10