With the success of Destination Moon producer George Pal decided to take that same “realistic” approached they used for their trip to the Moon for this depiction of the first voyage to Mars. Based on the popular non-fiction book Conquest of Space by author Will Ley, which was illustrated by Chesley Bonestell the man who…
Tag: space travel
Project Moonbase (1953) – Review
Back in 2019 when then-President Trump signed a $738 billion defence spending bill he officially created what is now known as the Space Force, making it the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Services – one assumes he didn’t know that the Air Force has had a military space program since 1945 – but Trump…
Rocketship X-M (1950) – Review
In 1950 two science fiction films sent cinemagoers venturing off into space, one was George Pal’s seminal classic Destination Moon and the other being Kurt Neumann’s Rocketship X-M, but where George Pal’s film was attempting to depict a nuts and bolts representation of a trip to the Moon, with at least some attempt at scientific…
Destination Moon (1950) – Review
It was back in 1902 when Georges Méliès adapted Jules Verne’s novel “From the Earth to the Moon” to the big screen for his short film A Trip to the Moon that the idea of bringing science fiction works of literary greats had truly begun – though I’m betting the “Man in the Moon” getting…