Fritz Lang - Woman In The Moon - 1929. Countdown 2/3

Great special effects in this climatic scene from Fritz Lang's underrated science fiction classic "Woman In The Moon" (Frau Im Mond) from 1929 (A.K.A. "rocket to the moon").

Featuring the talents of Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus,Fritz Rasp, and Klaus Pohl.

It should be noted that during the third reich, which happened a few years after the movie was made, the nazis had the models destroyed and the film withdrawn from release. They considered the rocket to be too close to reality. It was after all, designed by none other than Hermann Oberth, one of the fathers of rocketry and astronautics, who was also Wernher Von Braun's teacher, boss and collaborator.

A lot of contemporary science went into the making of Woman In The Moon. It shows the very first ever countdown to launch of a rocket. An idea invented as a dramatic device for the movie, but later adopted in real life. Also depicted for the first time are the use of liquid rocket fuel, a rocket with two stages, and zero gravity in space.

Of course, there were also bad calls, like the submerged launch and the moon atmosphere.

Woman in the moon was the first "serious" science fiction film.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Fritz Lang
• Willy Fritsch
• Gerda Maurus
• Fritz Rasp
• Klaus Pohl
• Woman in the moon
• frau im mond
• rocket to the moon
• 1929
• silent

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Actor Fritz Rasp, who again how so often plays the evil guy, in this film has a hairstyle like the guy from Austria who took over in Germany in 1933. Fritz Lang in many films he produced before 1933 made fun of or warned form the Nazis in a very cunning and subtle way and they didn't even realize that.

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Wow, look how the announcer uses Hitler like gestures, and how much like the crawler used on Saturn and STS. And the way the rocket leaves the the hanger just like the Vehicle Assy Building at NASA. Fritz Lang's movie echoed through history.