DESTINATION MOON (1950) | FULL MOVIE | CULT | SCI-F / ADVENTURE | CLASSIC | GEORGE PAL | 1h 32m
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2021
- Good quality scan of Destination Moon, the 1950 George Pal film. It's real science-based, trying to realistically predict how the first moon launch will go, compared with the rollicking action-adventure of Lippon's Rocketship X-M.
It was a black and white print , and now it looks awesome. Enjoy
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When I was 12 years old I talked my dad into taking me to see this movie at a drive in. On the way home I told my dad that one day we would go the Moon he said it would never happen. He lived to see man land on the Moon but sadly he passed away one year later. I am now 85 years old and have seen things that have come to pass that would have amazed people in the 50's. I worked as a electronic tech and saw the tube go to transistors and now a hand held phone that has more power than the computers that sent man to the moon
We never went to the moon...sorry. NASA Admits They Can't Send Humans Through The Van Allen Radiation Belts th-cam.com/video/t94HPyKIkYQ/w-d-xo.html
sorry to hear that 2ableland64
Your dad was right, people never landed on the moon, it was another Hollywood movie 😅
That's an stupid story of your part of course we went to the moon
I like your optimism, it's important and has value. I'm from a different camp, I don't see much to be optimistic about and am quite cynical about everything related to the establishment/government. But I do hope your world view is correct and mine is wrong. Take care :)
When I saw this film in 1950, I was 13 or 14 years old. it must have made an impression on me. I spent over 38 years in aerospace.Thanks SenoRose for bringing it to YT.
I wasn't born until 1959. I watched Apollo 11 land on the moon on a small black and white TV. I just knew I was going to work in the space program in some way. Then a couple years later it was all over.
Wow. I’m impressed. Amazing
Wow! ❤
The directior George Pal was amazingly talented. His 1953 War of the Worlds is one of my fav movies.
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He produced it. Irving Pichel directed.
Surprisingly good film Well I enjoyed it lots. So thank you for making it available. England, October, 2023,
I find myself alternately laughing and being amazed at this film. The 1940's and '50's were the golden age of science fiction, and this movie is filled with real science, even if some of the effects don't come off perfectly, Lol. George Pal definitely strove for authenticity in his depiction of man's first trip to the moon. This must have been a fantastic cinematic experience for 1950 sci-fi fans. It is for me, even now! Awesome post SenoRose.
I love the acting back in this era. I'm always intrigued how acting has evolved over time, to this day. Big thumbs down to AI/cgi bollocks.
Nothing better than a hasty unscheduled trip to the moon. Guaranteed success.
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Do not show this movie to Elon Musk...
@@21stcenturyscots Elon will claim he was the inspiration for this movie.
probably already watched them all
@@lovetheallbeautiful so cynical!
... especially with a nuclear pile aboard - hey, it's OK, they cleared a ten mile radius around the launch site! 21:57
Absolutely amazing for 1950. The effects are tremendous for the era. The weightlessness was flawless. The views of earth had clouds unlike many later films.
It shows the early motivation for a flight to the moon and obviously tries to motivate the country to go for it. Incredible to think they were just 19 years ahead of the first landing.
Just before the 54 minute mark ... what happened to the big oxygen tank?
Almost as convincing as the fake moon landings...
You had Robert Heinlein, Chesley Bonestell and George Pal running the show -- it was going to be as close to accurate as the budget would allow.
Anyone catch this credit:
Cartoon sequences by: Walter Lantz
I need to watch this closely; I'm sure he would have snuck Woody Woodpecker in there somewhere.
Update: Damn! I thought I was joking, but he IS in there!
If you ever wonder where Lucas and Spielberg got their inspiration for how the opening text narration for Star Wars looks, watch how the credits for this movie scroll up and vanish.
What a total pleasure it was not to have to watch a bunch of ridiculous ads during this movie. I loved the experience.
That’s the price of being cheap!
OMG, yer right; So absorbing I hardly noticed! Cheers....
(Not that I'm cheap, I'm just broke...!)
I'm loving this movie! A sci fi treasure if ever there was one. And Woody Woodpecker was fantastic as well. Hope he got an Oscar!
I loved the cameo of Woody Woodpecker. It made me smile.
@@gorillaauit was the perfect sales pitch
That was woody's new look for 1950.
The FIRST woodpecker on the Moon! And the Moon doesn't even have any wood! 😮
What a line! (10:50) ‘… but why go there Jim? - We’ll know when we get there, we’ll tell you when we get back.’
this movie was the only time I went down to the local theater and was shocked to see standing room only....people standing in the back as well as around the walls....that's how much interest there was in space travel back then.....
I was a year old in 1950 and got to be in the Pacific as a young sailor, when Apollo 11 splashed down. Now I hope to live to see us go back to the Moon and then Mars. It is taking us a lot longer than we thought it would back in those days.
Wish we still had that same interest.😀
@@AdamosDad Wonder why the space shuttle could not just fly there?
@@rollowarlin8450 Good question, that I don't know the answer to. I suppose it would be about weight vs fuel but your guess is as good as anything out there.
@@rollowarlin8450 Lots of reasons. The space shuttle was designed for low earth orbit. It doesn't have space for the fuel for a trans lunar injection burn, a lunar orbit injection burn, lunar landing and takeoff, and a trans earth injection burn for the way back. Plus, once it got there how would it land? There are no runways. It would have to carry a separate vehicle to land & takeoff from the moon like the Apollo LEM, and I doubt that could be fit into the shuttle's payload bay. Spacecraft coming back from the moon enter the earth's atmosphere much faster than spacecraft descending from orbit and their heat shields are designed for that. The shuttle's heat shield tiles are not.
Lots of other reasons too, the shuttles main engines are offset and only used with the heavy external fuel tank attached while it ascends to orbit. That fuel tank is jettisoned once it's empty and if they even had more fuel to run the main engines I expect it would cause the shuttle to tumble. Again the Shuttle was designed specifically to gat to low earth orbit and no further. It takes a ship designed specifically for deep space flight to fly out of the earth's gravity well, and even more specifically to land on another body and return.
I saw it at the movies when I was a kid. It has long been a great favorite! A wonderful movie! So happy to see it again!
While you were at the show I was being born. Glad we're still here mortondavid. Andrew
wait. did you see it's first run in '50? or in 10-57? is this evidence? +-7 Y covariant or contravariant time displacement between nearly identical adjacent universes? peepin' that far back in temporal dimensional direction from here in 2023? July. The year the Dominion was largely destroyed by arson and insurance cartel took the surplus and ran.
you can thank Heinlein for the science in it.
I'm a massive Heinlein fan. Love this film. Realism, that's the ticket. Akin to the drama of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Cheers....
This movie was way ahead of its time. Story ideas about space travel, space travel explanations by Woody were outstanding. Reminds me of the beginning of Jurasic Park, which was probably inspired by this movie. Thouroughly enjoying it.
This movie was a great mental exercise, which had many prophetic ideas which have proven out.
I'd never seen nor heard of this film! Thanks for posting it!
Yeah like bright colored suits, and giant fins on the rocket. The ability to turn around and land on the moon with the entire rocket. We just had to get there first so that the dirty Russians couldn't set up their missle bases and control earth. A very cheesy movie but still kind of fun to watch.
It's insane people still believe in outer space travel.
....and Heinlein's story loosely based on the HG Wells novel - so cool....my 6th grade teacher Mr Larsen read us that story in 1965 or so...
the tense moments to locate a suitable landing site without using too much fuel was like Apollo 11
Great job considering how little experience there was with this subject matter in 1950!
I could never figure out how they compressed all that orchestra music in a gas cylinder. 😮
WOW, what an absolutely incredible movie!! I'm watching this movie on November 7th 2023, and this movie was made 6 yrs before I was born! I can literally say that I have been on the edge of my seat through the whole movie!!
How about the political issues as well? They were dealing with the newspaper spreading fear and distrust. Trouble at the Border!! Demand Action from the Federal Government. City Treasurers Reactions to Sinking Funds. 23:00 in the movie.
This truly was a groundbreaking cinematic achievement. Scientifically it covered a lot of ground accurately. It resulted in many wanting to be involved with our nation's burgeoning space program. It also paved the way for sci-fi films to come. It had a story to tell and did it well.
I was 1 year old when this was made and never saw it till TH-cam, but I remember the excitement of the age and was a Kiwi space addict from age 4 (1954).
It's easy to critique a hundred technical flaws in this movie, and the now-incredible lack of government interest, but don't forget it was released only 24 years after Goddard's first liquid-fueled rocket test - and well before Soviet competition (thankfully) kindled US government investment.
To really appreciate this film, watch it with the eyes and awe of a 1950's child. It brought to Technicolor screens the best theories of the day and more than justifies itself as a valuable and enjoyable historical record of early, fact-based space fiction.
Our knowledge multiplied exponentially throughout the '50s but the year it was made, this was state of the art.
This was phenomenal for 1950!
Our knowledge? Have you been to the moon yourself, yet? We do not know enough. THEY know it all, we just get the scraps. Sometimes.
Don ~ I dig the magazines getting tossed into a stack, early ... and however they "taped" actors' cheeks to simulate "high G force" conditions after launching... 1950-51 were good years for radical postwar Sci-Fi...🎉
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Hi Don, what's a "Kiwi space addict?" I don't recognize the reference. Thanks, enjoyed your comment.
Imagine doing this without having any clue at all what you are doing.
lol
To boldly make believe you are where nothing has yet been.
Pure imagination.
Love it.
Sounds like Musk's resumè
This is a good sci fi movie proof you don't need monsters aliens robots or mutants to make a good film.
A part of the novel was left out. The encounter with a Nazi base on the moon and the battle to get shut of its troops.
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Thank goodness!
well said
Wow what a great movie! I really liked this one alot!
an excellent example of how, if properly motivated, Hollywood can educate, entertain and inspire at the same time.
This movie 🎥 was made nine years before I was born!! October 1959!! It was a great movie 🍿 with Woody Woodpecker and all. I really miss being a little kid back in the early 1960’s, things were so different and much more simple back then 😢
The V2 rocket was the one that blew up at the beginning of the movie, they were early on, the best rocket made. I think it is awesome that Woody Woodpecker was cast in this show. Funny stuff.
He actually got paid more than Lassie OR Rin Tin Tin for this one.
Came for an old 50s sy fy moon movie, stayed for Woody Woodpecker. Good show, thanks for the upload.
Wow, I thought I was watching a Musk SpaceX documentary. 😎 I love these SCI-FI movies, just need an old time drive-in movie theater. 🥰
The Fish and Wildlife Service is standing in the way of the next Starship launch. I bet they would love to ignore them the way they did in this movie.
Robert Heinlein wrote some truly classic sci-fi!
I forgot, it was "The Man who Sold the Moon". ;*[{
Written by one of my favorite authors.
Well worth watching! Some great effects and science of space and rocketry.
LOVE THIS MOVIE ! EXCELLENT ON ALL LEVELS A MASTERPIECE!!
Holy Cow! The way the opening credits roll up the screen and into the background is 27 years ahead of the FAMOUS Star Wars opening synopsis. George Lucas must have been influenced by George Pal.
No. This wasn't the first movie to do that. George Pal himself was certainly influenced by the old Saturday serials that had scrolling openings. Most famously "Flash Gordon." That's where George Lucas got the idea for the opening of "Star Wars."
Fun fact: They used some of the footage of this film in the second episode of the the TV series „The Time Tunnel“ in 1966. The story was completely different (a saboteur was part of the team and the two time travellers were transferred to a ship that was en route to Mars. It made a stop on the Moon to get fuel from a depot. The helmets had air hoses on both sides and looked a little more sophisticated in the close up shots.😄)
THAT EPISODE has the only existing blu-ray footage of Destination Moon.
Irwin Allen used the original 35mm DM negative to incorporate into it:
zoppy.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-time-tunnel-1966-ep-2with-video.html
I think that was the very second episode, the one after the Titanic; I watched it as a six-year old!
This is a true classic . It was writen by Robrtt Hienlien, (THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON) and he was technical director for the movie. Not till they filmed The Martian, did any science fiction movie have this level of science fact.
Don't forget Rip Van Ronkel! After all, he got top billing among the writers. And with a name like “Rip Van Ronkel,” how could you NOT?
That’s Heinlein…
Only something that the Americans do so well . Pinch other peoples inventions and call it their own.
1950 Werner Braun was the head Rocket scientist , and he was a German Nazi .
Agree to an extent although 2001 in 1969/70 was based on engineering and potential / likely space developments in next 2 decades. Arthur C Clarke, the author, worked for NASA also... you can thank him largely for satellite technology which he predicted, based on fact.
@@jameswebb4593 And Von Braun's work was based on earlier work by the American Professor Robert Goddard. Your point?
56 and first time watching this. They made it well
First time for me too...I'm 82. Growing up, Heinlein was one of my favorite authors.
Apollo 13 didn't have a rat tail file.....they would have been sunk! In truth: This movie was the most scientifically accurate of it's time due to two things: The author of the story, Robert A. Heinlein and the technical coordinator for the movie, Robert A. Heinlein. The Sci-Fi GrandMaster.
In these older movies, one can't help but notice the absence of that singular moment when Armstrong stepped on the moon. Which is just as well here, as the Bogie guy would probably say, "Get me, fellas, I'm tripping the light fantastic on the moon, and I'm gonna plant one right on her kisser!"
@@randomaxe662 Your whole comment is good but I give you a like just because you said "plant one right on her _kisser!"_
Hahaha I haven't heard that term in 40 years!
Heeeyyy what about Isaac Asimov? Lol
_Grand Master indeed!_
Interesting. So many space movies do elaborate and unconvincing techniques to light the actors faces in helmets; this movie just did it simply. Big faceplate and don't worry about shadowing in profile
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Still the most scientifically correct science fiction movie about space, and the only one without the obligatory "meteor storm" or meteor in space!
Or the secretly evil saboteur.
@@richardeast3328 You could argue that Communism got that role with the court order demanding they not launch, but it was a minor plot point...
I guess this movie set the standard for having a kid from Brooklyn as part of the crew. I was expecting to see his pet capuchin monkey
@@richardeast3328 True, but Tintin's Destination Moon is still a good tale.
I beg to differ. "2001 A Space Odyssey" was a lot more scientifically correct. In fact, the only scientific inaccuracy I can spot is the mistake of not depicting the gravity on the moon as less than it is on Earth during the briefing scene with Dr. Floyd(ok...technically, we can't put astronauts in suspended animation yet, either....but no sci-fi film has ever addressed that satisfactorily). It got zero g, soundlessness of space, RCS thruster systems for spaceship control, centrifuge-artificial gravity, food designed for zero g consumption and time delayed communication at long distances(from Earth to near Jupiter) 100% accurate. It also correctly predicted Facetime phone calls and computer AI that can vocalize.
This was the first Heinlein book I read.
I was hooked.
An excellent movie, very believable and ahead of it’s time in special effects. 👍
Going home, please take your medicines.
Yeah, so believable when the guy fell off the rocket travelling thousands of miles per hour but just slowly drifted away while the rocket didn't move much at all.
This movie was ahead of its time 😐
Long weekend, coffee, rainy day, my knitting and, this movie. ❤. And nooooo, I'm not an old granny😅
Lol.
I think I am starting to love these old rockets to the moon movies, nice and cheesy to go with my popcorn😂
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GREAT Sci-fi movie! Very realistic. However, the greatest and most realistic line in the movie was from 16:50 - 16:56!
yes had a laugh at that one, too.
American Industry,,,,,, (Military Complex.)
The idea that private industry would use their own money to fund the space program for the good of the world is actually the most preposterous part of the movie. Governments are still largely funding SpaceX and all these so-called private launch systems today.
I was 3 years old when my Dad took me outside to see Sputnik fly over. Maybe I'm mixed up about whose satellite we saw, but I clearly remember the little light flying across the sky against a background of stars. I became a fan of science fiction which was more exciting than learning how to use a slide rule at the time.
well if you saw a satellite in '58 it was sputnic thats the only one up there at that time.
I think Sputniks I and II eventually fell out of orbit and burned up in the atmosphere, but the two Telstars are still up there
Movies like this are the time capsule of that generation's understanding the complexity of the task.
There is an almost a child-like innocence, from today's perspective, in entire set design .
I liked the screaming during launch. All manned missions going forward need to have at least one mission member do this, just as a hat's off to the past.
Wow! This is a great movie. Loved it.
Gotta love the quantities of NO2 pouring into the air from the propellant tanks at 1:57.... "I love the smell of hydrazine in the morning"
Right before the V-2 launch
....and Woody Woodpecker teaching us rocket science and basic orbital mechanics:
11:52
Including Space-X's vertical landing! 15:37
Cheers ...
Beautiful movie, just like the one Kubrik made in 1969.
The science and concepts seem quite advanced for 1950
1:03:37😂🎉😂 "... there's terrific excitement on Oyth!" ("Earth" in brooklynese)
Bravo povrch měsíce a země je mnohem realističtější pokud by přistáli na severním či jižním pólu než z Apola.
What a great movie ! One of the best of the genre !
Thank you
Stop and think how accurate this movie was given today's knowledge. The speed was right at 25,200mph, the science was pretty much right, the idea of a single unit taking off, landing and returning pretty much aligns with SpaceX's Starship. It really is amazing given this was 20 years before Apollo landed and almost 75 years before Starship.
Beginning of the movie - Fastest 20 second countdown in history!
This reminds me of the Mision to Mars ride at Disneyland back in the 70s. Before that it was mission to the moon. The sense of adventure I felt on that ride is the same sense of adventure I have always gotten when watching this movie. Simple effects and a great story.
l was on that Dizzyland mission to the moon thing. lt was really hoaky for the 70's even.
Same.
@rollowarlin8450 I loved the hoakiness too. Lol
Just 19 years later after the release of this film and the real event happened and this film might very well have inspired President Kennedy back in the early 1960's with this goal.
JFK didn't watch movies, he was too busy shagging Marylin Monroe in the Lincoln bedroom!
This is Space X Starship program predicted from 1950...its so similar, even the same rocket and the impetus of private industry based in Texas! 73 years ago!
The ship in ROCKETSHIP X-M was closer to Space-X. And certainly the MARS seen in that film was much more accurate than the look of the moon in this film. Kind of ironic that.
Don’t be delusional - SpaceX has been subsidized with taxpayer money from Day One. Starship is funded with $2 billion from NASA, sir.
This was a staple on 'Family Classics' on WGN-TV in Chicago in the early 1960's. So we were a little surprised when we watched Neil Armstrong in 1969 that the moon's surface was NOT made of flagstone!
Good memories!
Haha I think the movie was trying to represent some kind of desiccated, eroded, space dust covered surface in that scene
Green cheese! Yum!
Love the dialog! From de Oith to da Moon! 😅
The token stereotypical New Yorker in every 50's space flick for comic relief.
...c est vieux films de science fiction ont leur charme.....toujours un plaisir de les revoir
So this was where Hergé got inspired. Striking resemblance on the rocket and the interior 😮
Oddly enough a private company is building the largest rocket ever. It's twice as powerful as the Saturn V and is currently on the launch pad preparing for flight. This film was prophetic.
The opening credits are amazing! Walter Lantz, who later did Woody Woodpecker. Chesley Bonestell, who was the de facto artist for the space program. And of course, Robert Heinlein!
The weightless scenes are really cool!
I wonder if Stanley Kubrick thought the same. I was awed by 2001.
As real as real could be in that era. No.monsters etc and pretty good science
I remember during a mid December day in 1964 when I was raining on my way home then it turned to snow. I was watching this on TV when the ship was on its way to the moon. I thought this was a real life trip to the moon. This movie stuck in my mind. I was able to see this again in 2021.
Classic in every way!
Elon Musk granting such behind-the-scenes access to the film crew is much appreciated. This documentary on the early days of SpaceX is just breathtaking! ❤🚀
Incredible that only 19 years later than this naive view on space travel it really happened.
Perhaps.
Love how the Earth moves up with the rocket as they take off from the moon. Must have been a graphic attached to the window.
magic.
This movie seems better every time I see it. Surprisingly well written for a '50s sci-fi movie, and exceptionally accurate, especially since Elon Musk figured out how to land rockets upright!
Much fun! Thanks!
34:38 "Thoirteen". 1:13: 5"Go head Oith" Why they chose a Brooklynite without any space training is anyone's guess. But the visuals for the time are top-notch, oithlings.
It was intended as comic relief. Mandatory for almost all campy space flicks in the 50's. Instead of being funny, they generally come off as being annoying. John Landis does a good spoof in his comedy classic "Amazon Women On The Moon."
Excellent old sci-fi flick
George Pal's amazing Technicolor classic science fiction saga of the first rocketship to the Moon is still amazing all these years later! Inspired a whole generation of boys to rocket scientists in America's space program in the 1950s, to the creation of NASA in 1958, to JFK's inspiring speech to go to the Moon in 1961, to our final realization of the Apollo 11 in 1969. And inspired the HIDDEN FIGURES ladies and Elon Musk also!
Even then, Heinlein realized a trip to the moon was going to be all about weight…Von Braun and his team were all supporters of direct ascent - like this movie one big ship from earth to the moon, though they knew there would have to be a lander rather than the whole ship to actually land. American scientists postulated Lunar Orbit Rendezvous and the rest is history. But the weight problem at the end of the movie was so accurate, the description of the lunar surface spot on, and Cargrave’s declaration when he stepped on the surface could have been Armstrong’s. An amazing movie!
Nice one turning a V2 rocket into a space craft. I read a lot of Robert Hienlien books as a young man I think he wrote "time enough for love" ? That I found a bit disturbing he was discribing all the people that would be taken from earth to collanise other worlds...Poloticians docters engineers surgeons but as you say in America the avarage jou never got a look in....Ap[art from that little rant 10/10
I love sci fi, when I watch these golden era ones I always think how the entire cast is dead.
WOW, that was a great movie...thx for posting that !!! OMG !!!
The countdown and launch reminded me of ThunderBirds Are Go!!!
Love all those 50's movies, it doesn't matter the genre.
Must be the Atlantic accent hahaha.
Wow. This movie was better than expected.
Excellent! OK, the moon's surface looked like a dry river bed and it takes light 1.2s to get to the moon not 3s (maybe they were talking round trip???!!!), but hey, but this 75yr old movie was far more fun & entertaining the 90% of the dreck being streamed these days. Classic and in in colour no less!
My uncle watched this show and loved it back in 1969.I do too..
This movie benefits from not shoe-horning a woman into the trip!
Did you miss the Japanese physician?
The film that liberated sci-fi from Saturday morning monsters for kids and made it serious viewing for adults again- after 20 years. Britain's 'Things to Come' in 1936 had tried, but Hollywood thought women would not sit still for SF.
This movie was great. Thanks for sharing!
This was the very first time Woody's voice was provided by Grace Stafford
Just like going on vacation, it's fun, but good to get back.
God I was only 2 or nearly 2.I didn,t see it till I was at least 12yrs.I,m 74 and still watch these amazing films.
Great film.. Watching in 2024 from India
Before anyone actually got to space. In retrospect it is interesting how they viewed going to space back then.
Just rereading Heinlen's The Puppet Masters and Waldo and one more in an old collection I just found at a thrift shop. I forgot how absorbing his books are! I found one by him on local politics and how to do it; great book, too!
Woddy the Woodpecker was the best part of this 🎥 movie 🎬 Watched from rural Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇸
Teal green ..great colo!r
Why is there always a junior acting like a clown in those early space movies ? Hahaha
That was part of the (((TRIBE))) formula at that time. Now they have been using (((Their))) 7 Deadly Sins formula for the last 40-50 years.
Buffoons were a mandatory part of the casting.
There is one in every George Pal movie, it's called comic relief.
They needed a character who could ask questions that could be answered, questions that an audience to which all of this was brand new needed to have clarified.
Written THATway in the script!
Well done! Nice.movie- how about that antique prop airliner- absolute beautiful beast. That it.was
This is unfortunately the most Ayn Rand influence Movie of it's time. I do love it and still watch it my gosh every year .