Free Documentary: Hollywood in the Atomic Age 

I don't think it's trash, it's inspirational and makes you think. The next step is to get an actual education to understand things and know the facts from the trash.

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Yup, the dude is an extraterrestrial passing as human. He winds up leaving Earth to return home but promises to come back.

The alien also passed himself off as a Mr. Carpenter.

@@garyfrancis6193 Great point!...Not being religious, it had not occurred to me about that "Jesus" connection!..Very interesting observation!

What a great point!! 😮

_Some_ times?

@@brianhiles8164 you are right. I should have said usually campy

​@johndavis6119 Yes, they were so much sillier than the Marvel/comic book movies we have now. I can't wait for the Archie and Jughead superhero movie!

Exactly. The opening score to KRONOS is the perfect example. You just know that this flick is going to be intense. The soundtrack from the 50's SUPERMAN TV series is another great example. BTW: No screen siren screamed better than Phyllis Coates.

Especially the Theramin device, which made that unique sci-fi sound…

@@hertzair1186I love that theremin sound!!!! It gives it a whole new feel! I wish they featured it more nowadays…

Yes girls when you're that young can do no wrong they of all ages were intoxicating.

Hi Allan. I’m curious about what a kiddie matinee was like back in those days in regards to programming. Can you share some of your memories about what you actually saw. I know it was a double feature, but was it also cartoons, serials, etc? What were some of the double features? I would love to hear if you care to share. Thanks.

@@Fzane-mn8fh Our local kiddie matinees were at the Garmar Theater in Montebello, Ca. They were usually on Saturday afternoons around 1:00PM and we were usually out by 5:30PM. In the mid-to -late 50's it cost 15 cents to get in and another 15 cents for a combo of a popcorn, soda and a candy bar (my choice was either Milk Duds or a Sugar Daddy). They started us off with the "Do's and Don'ts" on how to act while attending the matinee. That was usually met with several "boo's" and popcorn boxes hitting the screen. We then saw coming attractions for the next kiddie matinee, a cartoon (usually a "Looney Tune" with Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, etc.) and then the first feature. It was usually the crummier of the two movies. The double feature would be a combination of sci-fi, monster, horror, westerns, war movies or comedies. They never showed any movie over the intelligence of a 10 year old. During intermission it was a race to the snack bar to get out goodies for the next feature. After intermission they would show either a Laurel & Hardy or 3 Stooges short ot whatever other short that was available like a short with Abbott & Costello. The second feature was usually the "better" movie. If they showed a sci-fi double feature the first would be a crummy film like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and the second feature would be like "The Day The Earth Stood Still." When the kiddie matinee was over we'd hop on our bikes and head for home. Around 1960 they raised the admission to 25 cents and 25 cents for the combo snack bar special. TALK ABOUT INFLATION!! I had to beg my father for an increase in my allowance which meant I had to do more work. We kept going to the kiddie matinee (if the movies were decent) until I was about 12. After that they wouldn't let us in. "You're too old. Get lost!" That's ok. We no longer wanted to hang around with all those stupid young kids anyway!

@@AllanGonnella wow! That’s fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing! I really appreciate it! The only way I can experience it is vicariously though folks like you who actually lived it. Awesome! Thanks again👍

I enjoyed that description of Maternies too thanks guys

Find Joe Dante's "Matinee" if you've never seen it. You'll love it!

They all had the scene were a couple would stand at a desk and explain what foolishness was going on like it was the real science for this movie

under rated and under remembered , great movie

Every cheap production is the most terriffic, most awesome, most whatever you ever saw. Every movie with rubber monster Masks and screaming girl is greater than Ben Hur.

Flag on the moon, who pit it there,the progress. A monster who kills, just for killing. Dr Jaworsky, melted scientist.

I optimistically hope that a white flag says to aliens, _Nothing to see here. Move on._

We are still going to attack, puny earthlings

​@@johnrudy9404 Huh?

​@@johnrudy9404could you explain please? Thanks

I mean...so sad that some of the kids watching these movies are now gone!..I am 78Yo, and several of my movie-going chums are dead.

The Actors were adults and its 70 yrs ago.

I have many fond memories of The Ackermonster's wonderful magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland. 1:49:52

I laugh when I see vids and advertisements from survivalist websites, I mean, if a nuclear blast happens within ten miles of you, forget about living!...You would not want to live after the explosion.

Oh, come on now. Did the survivors of Dresden, Hiroshime, and Nagasaki want to live afterward? Of course they did.​@@curbozerboomer1773

Yes, in fact most of this movies were cheap and fast made films to make fast money by kids. 99 % of these movies are forgotten and in most cases its better that way. I was very interested in this kind of movies when i was a kid, like my elder brother but i never heard about of most of this, there are just a few really speacial ones that survived as classics, like Them, Tarantula, the Fly. Some others are only known in US (Teenage Werewolf), but all this cheap "out of space" things or "Horror" with screaming Girls and guys wearing funny halloween masks...nah, come on.

@@drhkleinert8241 Svengoolie has made a living showing all these old fast made scarem movies...

so glad you chimed in with your sunny input 😂

@@drhkleinert8241 yes they’re so forgotten, they’re still appreciated, written about and conventions held for these films.

@@charlesheck6812Right! Mr. Smiley face over here…He must be sleeping on a friend’s couch…

Maybe Cosmic Monsters aka The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

that was 1940s not exactly the theme of the documentary

Not quite. There was NO USSR in the 1890s when Wells wrote the novel. It was still Imperial Russia ruled by the Czar.

@@stevensica5918 ‎History of Russia (1894-1917)

But there were the book teachings of Karl Marx who was of the time of H.G Wells and Jules Verne writtings

@@PatrickNthedesert Wells was a socialist, unlikely to be troubled al that much by Marx and his writings.