Conquest of Space (1954) - Trailer

Trailer for the George Pal sci-fi film about outer space exploration. Directed by Byron Haskin, and released by Paramount.

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[DIRECTOR777]

Thanks for posting this piece. Our history must be preserved.

[JackFlanders]

Why do people have so much of a hard-on for politics that a 1954 movie trailer can make them want to comment about it. Learn how to compartmentalize your life and I am sure you will be healthier and happier for it.

[TheCanadianPublic]

Not only did the movie bomb in the theatres, two years later, the Russians launched Sputnik!

[Salvus967]

Man, they were so optimistic about the future in the 50s...and wrong..

[hebneh]

The tacked-on black & white finale is obviously from a re-issue of this film a few years later, around the time Sputnik was launched in 1957, when audiences might become interested in the subject again.

[hebneh]

That circular space station will exist before the year 2000 AD! So amazingly far in the future...

The throw-around scene is the predecessor of similar ones aboard the Starship Enterprise as well as the nuclear submarine Seaview - men tossed around, sparks, smoke, evacuations.

[GWC1975]

Eroberung des Weltraum

[Feuerdragon1]

That is true and we have both been saying that and I thoroughly agree on that one.

What I did querry though, was, that you seem to single out the USA as the only 'very bad boy', while most others did and do likewise, or would - if they could.

Cheerio, Firedrachen :-)

[Russell Anderson]

That's all I have been saving. You too, sir.

[Feuerdragon1]

Obviously bombing people is no solution to solve anything.

Have a good life.

[Russell Anderson]

I did. The bottom line is that you can use non-violent means to effet change. Not by bombing people back to the stone age.

[Feuerdragon1]

You would only be visible if you are in the 5th dimension yourself - invisible if you look at the 5th dimension from the 3rd dimension.

Gandhi's non-violent result was a divided India & a now terrorists riddled Pakistan. The USA Blacks got the vote but not much else, as their still prevailing poverty and crowding US jails testifies.

Hardly a glowing result from Gandhi and King, which were only the trigger of political and historic events - not the cause of them.

Study History correctly!