Retro Baby-boomers Outer Space Animation from 1958 Kids TV

Remember the cool retro rocket with the big clear nosecone window up front? You could see the stars and planets approaching. Clip from the memorable space cartoon animation of a boy who stows away in the 'Polaris' rocket ship looking for his astronaut father who he thinks has crash-landed on Mars.

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[inventorr77]

In researching this old cartoon, I also stumbled on these titles:

- Thunderbirds Are Go (1966)

- Stingray (1963)

- Captain Scarlet (1967)

- Rocky Jones (1954)

[Sundance60352]

It was called "Journey to the Beginning of Time" 4 boys in New York go to the American Museum of Natural History and visit the Jurassic Hall. Then they rent a rowboat in Central Park, enter a cave, and start going back in time. Actually, the middle 90% of the film is a Czech film. But the American film makers, the same team that did the Space Explorers, used American boys at the beginning and at the end when they return. It's available on tape, not sure about DVD.

[bruceagarrett]

I remember that one too! They get lost, or something, and discover that the river goes back in time...that is, the further up the river they went, the further back in time they went. But now for the life of me I can't remember the name of that one.

[DoctorChandu]

"a German film made in 1937"

Hitler and Stalin? From WIKI.

"The material comes primarily from two foreign films : - images of the rocket Polaris come from footage of German film "Weltraumschiff 1 Startet" (Anton Kutter, 1939) - but all images of the interior of the spaceship, images of the characters and from the walk on planet were extracted from a Russian cartoon film "Polet na lunu", (Flight to the moon), 1953,"

Polaris was a better ship than the Flash Gordon Serials ones of the era.

[scotpens]

It's a bit ironic that anyone would think the special effects in "Space Explorers" were ahead of their time, considering that all the rocketship footage was taken from a German film made in 1937 -- 20 years earlier. Some planetscape miniature shots from a Russian film of similar vintage were also used.

[DoctorChandu]

I remember this very well. It's special effects were way ahead of it's time. There were not enough of them at the time. I am sure the characters have not dated well in our 21 century America of diversity.

A time long ago when color TV was still unusual, no civil rights act, no pill, and when Ike was Pres!

The makers of this one also did one where  high school student's take a raft down a river that leads them to a prehistoric world full of dinosaurs.

All heady stuff for the 1950's.