Interesting how they called the moon lander "Apollo" at the beginning - that was pretty astute because the name was only chosen in early 1960, so they had very good information sources when Coppolla put this together in 1961 or 1962, and that capsule and lander are damn good projections for then.
From the era when my parents had me looking for the Echo satellite outside at dusk in 1960. I was four years old and this is a memory fragment as we were visiting my maternal grandparents at the time.
I was 13 in 1960, but seeing Echo could have been before my birthday. My father and brother and some neighborhood friends built a fire out back where we had a clear view and cooked hot dogs, while waiting for the Echo satellite to pass over and it did right on schedule. We also just talked and waited 90 minutes for it to come over again, only the next time it came over from a different angle and crossed the sky in a different direction. This was because of the Earth's rotation. We had moved during that time and not the Echo satellite. We had a lot of fun watching it.
@@GGE47 What a fine memory you've shared. Your description goes a long way to making me see it through your eyes. My memory of seeing Echo is more like a series of screen-grabs. What stands out too is my parents and grandparents wanting me to be in on the fun.
Wearing a tie in space. Leafing through an in-flight magazine during liftoff. The Space X vertical landing on a floating platform at the end. Great stuff. The monsters were a bizarre touch. Freud would have been proud.
Last saw this movie as a kid in the 70's. I specifically remember them jumping from the one ship to the other during the rescue near the Sun, and then later them standing on the small moon looking at Mars and remarking how it was so close but they hadn't made it. For years I had tried internet searches to discover the name of the movie, but never found it because the only clue I had remembered about the movie was incorrect - I had thought the names of the two ship's were "Hyperion" and "Typhoon". Thanks for posting....a real blast from the past.
This was maked in 1959 dude. It was a Russian maked movie as called Nebo zovyot (original title) which is means THE SKY CALLS and thened it was released to ined the USA at 1962 and named BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN. From at IMDb.com : www.imdb.com/title/tt0053103/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Amazing that they knew how the Earth looked from space in Russian film making in 1959. That the Earth atmosphere gave a soft blue fuzz around the Earth etc. Fascinating.
Not too many people will understand what you're saying about this movie. Nobody pays attention to the details anymore. They believe the lies they are taught.
This was maked in 1959 dude. It was a Russian maked movie as called Nebo zovyot (original title) which is means THE SKY CALLS and thened it was released to ined the USA at 1962 and named BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN. From at IMDb.com : www.imdb.com/title/tt0053103/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The amazing sets and the colours are the main reason for watching this film. The title is very misleading there is no battle beyond the sun,you get a couple of monsters having a fight but that's it.Thanks for posting.
0:20 The Apollo spacecraft 10 years later looked almost identical to this. Very good. 1:03:17 This looks an awful lot like Space-X landing a rocket on one of those floating barges. Not bad for 1959.
Fascinating background story! I notice that Coppola's editing out of Soviet visuals slips near the end. A red star appears on a spaceship's tail fin during the final takeoff scene. Then, after returning to Earth, the "astronauts" are greeted by cute kids in Young Pioneer uniforms.
And 61 years later hardly anything done in space landed on the moon 10 years after this film stay tuned will be back right after this station identification
It is clearly a Russian movie, altered from it's original to remove the USA vs Russian space race. It accurately shows the Russians being further head.
Well It’s a soviet created film it was re dubbed by the USA first and then UK later, theres a great little read about it in the description if you haven’t checked it already
Coppola had no hand in these sets or cinematography. This was a Russian production, bought later by an American company. They hired Coppola to make some monsters, then inserted that footage for no good reason.
They were mighty optimistic about the size and amenities of rocket ships.. Was it just me, or did anyone else think one of those creatures resembled a va-j-j with teath? And could someone please tell me what killed the guy who brought the fuel after he saw the creatures? Did he die of fright? Was fun to see a Russian version of a space film.
Yep, the critters were intended to resemble guy&lady parts. And the guy in the original Russian film piloted the second fuel shuttle without protection, he died from radiation exposure.
Why does the report form at 10:55 say 'North Hemis Space Agency' when the project and the person completeing the report are with the 'South Hemis Space Agency'?
Wow. A visually stunning film, with interesting bits of more advanced sci-fi elements presented in almost matter-of-fact ways. The prologue firmly establishes the seriousness of this effort through the use of a (relatively) fast-paced montage that includes thoughtful space-ship designs, some grounded in reality. Spacecraft engine exhausts look powerful and lack the wimpy, gravity-tugged, and smoky trails typical of this era. The space-station's centrifuge is shown without comment and theres some effort to depict weightlessness. As an anecdote, star backgrounds are shown in motion against the foreground of an exterior shot of a spaceship. This is incorrect, but even Kubrick messed this up in his great film.
this film also include in the production staff one Francise Ford Coppola, I wonder what ever happened to him.?( joke) a surprising cold war theme that was very forward looking as the cold war lasted 30 yrs.
@@gwenmartinsen3979 Carmine Coppola, father to Francis Ford Coppola. Contributed music to The Godfather + Part II + Part III Not sure why credited as Carmen, but it's definitely FFC's father...
back in the 60zz when firstI seen this flick. We were really hard up for good sci fie I thought then and again NOW. And seeing this again I will bid you all good evening and enjoy it if you can,. And suddenly I have a craving for a turkey Sandwich. Must have been the flick. Turkey time.
I enjoy most of these old sci-fi flicks.. some are better than others. Still, even Kubrick's film doesnt stand a chance against what Roddenberry did with Star Trek (OS). When I watched the Star Treks the first time I felt that even in the depths of VN war and serious social and racial tensions, there was hope for the future of humanity- thru both boldness, science, and logic. My POV has matured some in the intervening decades but I basically feel the same today.
1997 never got the memo that 1950's fashions would be back in vogue. Oh, and that pubic hair on the screen at around 59:12 was tickling the actor's face.
Well, I was kinda into it until the giant red one eyed vagina attacked them, then, well, I was inspired to write this. As far as that Space X ending, now we know where Space X got the idea.
Why is the rocket logo or identifier or whatever blacked out and censored at around 30:05 Update: I read in Wikipedia that the reason is the original Soviet film had CCCP (USSR in Cyrillic) on the rocket, so they blocked it out.
All good but given that both Britain and Germany as well as most of the U.S.A appear to be in the north it would be more likely that the south would get there only to find they had to fly around in a holding pattern while the space flight controllers tried to get them a spot to land at new Washington, London or Berlin space ports!
Blamed that on Russians! This was maked in 1959 dude. It was a Russian maked movie as called Nebo zovyot (original title) which is means THE SKY CALLS and thened it was released to ined the USA at 1962 and named BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN. From at IMDb.com : www.imdb.com/title/tt0053103/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
With a couple of knobs, buttons, cheesy actors and an oscilloscope, and you've got yourself an early sience fiction movie. The naivety of immediate pre space-age films (& early space-age) was hilarious.
Theme song: There's a battle beyond the sun. It's gonna' get hot so everyone.... Put on yer sunglasses and lets have fun. Our food will be cooked well done! cha-cha-cha.
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