Fritz Lang - Woman In The Moon - 1929 - The Rocket

Debriefing of the rocket plans, a scene from Fritz Lang's underrated silent science fiction classic "Woman in the moon" (frau im mond) from 1929.

Featuring Fritz Rasp.

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the third reich, which happened a few years after the movie was made, the nazis had the models destroyed and the film withdrawn from release.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
• frau im mond
• woman in the moon
• rocket to the moon
• Fritz Rasp
• 1929
• silent
• Hermann Oberth
• Wernher Von braun

[PERIZ99]

Great film. Excellent model building too!