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	Destination Moon
		Destination Moon is a depiction of the first moon landing, not to happen in real life until 1969.
		This film is a good measure of how SF film changed over the years, as it is the same subject matter as Le Voyage Dans la Lunes and Die Frau Im Mond.
		Destination Moon is a depiction of the first moon landing, 19 years before the real-life event.
	www.umich.edu /~umfandsf/film/films/destination_moon.html (163 words)

	Destination Moon at 50
		Destination Moon starts with a pyrotechnically spectacular failure, and it’s impossible to see the burning rocket without thinking of its counterparts in the real-life chronicles of Mercury and Apollo.
		In both Destination Moon and in real life there was a near-disaster, averted through the ingenuity of the ground crew and the astronauts.
		The film even foretells what was probably both the most unexpected and most important result of the Apollo missions: the heart-stopping images of not the moon, but the Earth.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/movies/destination_moon_000831.html (1110 words)

	Destination Moon
		Destination Moon, the first of George Pal's many sf productions, has great historical importance: its commercial success initiated the sf film boom of the 1950s after a decade that had contained almost no sf cinema at all.
		The film's biggest predictive error was political, not scientific: it predicted that the first Moon landing, described as "the greatest challenge ever hurled at American industry", would be a truly capitalist affair conducted by private enterprise.
		Destination Moon is an austere film, semi-documentary in nature and, aside from a sequence about fuel shortage near the end, rather placid and unexciting.
	www.csie.ntu.edu.tw /~b2506017/sf/5k.htm (851 words)

	Destination Moon
		Destination Moon is remarkable – and, looked at from the correct perspective, thrilling – for being the only space flight film made in the heyday of the science fiction film to be truly about space flight.
		Destination Moon was the brainchild of writer Robert A. Heinlein and producer George Pal, the latter of whom managed to sell a studio on the idea of making a serious film about travelling to the moon after the concept was initially dismissed as "too fantastic".
		Destination Moon is unique in the annals of the science fiction film for the clarity and conviction of its vision, and for its refusal to take a single step outside the boundaries of what its makers believed to be the truth.
	twtd.bluemountains.net.au /Rick/dm_print.htm (3761 words)

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		Furthermore, DESTINATION MOON, directed by Irving Pichel, was (distantly) based on Rocketship Galileo, a novel by "the Dean of science fiction," Robert A. Heinlein, who also co-wrote the script for the feature, and served as technical advisor.
		DESTINATION MOON was tremendously influential, less so on the flood of science fiction movies that followed in the 1950s -- those mostly took THE THING and the reissued KING KONG as their models -- but rather on the public's opinions about space travel.
		DESTINATION MOON isn't the best science fiction movie ever made, but it deserves a place of honor for the courage it took to make it, the diligence required to keep it realistic, and the sincerity with which it was made.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/destinationmoon.shtml (1026 words)

	Destination Moon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Destination Moon is a 1950 science fiction film directed by Irving Pichel.
		Destination Moon was the first major science-fiction film produced in the United States, and won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects (Lee Zavitz).
		He also published, about the same time as the release of the film, Destination Moon, a short story of the same name that was based on the screenplay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Destination_Moon_(film) (685 words)

	Science Fiction on Film
		This is the first great sound picture in the field and the first film to show a utopian future that includes the promise of space flight.
		This film is also famous for the line of dialogue "Gort, Klaatu barrada nicto," the first alien language on film.
		Due to the huge success of this film, the market for and interest in science fiction as film and as literature skyrocketed into the stratosphere again, rejuvenating and expanding the entire field.
	www.nvcc.edu /home/ataormina/scifi/media/filmhist.htm (1151 words)

	Review - Destination Moon (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Produced and set during the economic boom that followed World War II, "Destination Moon" is a film intent on showcasing the enterprise and ingenuity of American industry.
		"Destination Moon" was arguably the first science fiction film to take its concepts and ideas seriously-you'll find no moon dwelling, ray gun wielding aliens here.
		The acting--which can be a bit hammy--and the reasons why America should go to the Moon ultimately take a backseat to the wonderful production values and flawless special effects which can, for the most part, be attributed to the genius of George Pal.
	www.cinetalk.org /review_destination_moon.htm (482 words)

	Destination Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Destination Moon (film) is the name of the first postwar-planned American science fiction feature film in the genre of space adventure.
		Destination Moon is the title of a song by Dinah Washington on her Dinah '62 album released by Roulette Records in 1962.
		Destination Moon is also the title of a song by They Might Be Giants from their 1994 album John Henry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Destination_Moon (175 words)

	Conquest Of Space DVD
		Perhaps the film wasn't well received at the time, as radiation-fueled giant insects, etc. were a mainstay of mid-fifties sci-fi.
		This film used to play all the time on tv when I was young, and I even saw it in a movie theatre.
		The plots in both films are quite similar, down to a death in space, a crewmember going mad, and the space station.
	www.megamediadepot.net /details41611.aspx (1264 words)

	Leith STEVENS Destination Moon: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews March 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Destination Moon was one of the first 'modern' science fiction films and I remember playing truant off school to see it up in the Gods (the highest gallery) in a cinema in Nottingham in England's East Midlands.
		George Pal's Destination Moon (1950) was the first feature film to tackle the problem of realistically visualising a scientifically accurate (for the times) simulation of an actual flight to the moon.
		In 'Escape from the Moon' the material underscores the anxieties of the spacemen in preparing for the take-off back to earth for much equipment has to be jettisoned before they can leave the moon.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /film/2000/mar00/destination.htm (595 words)

	Pywrit.com - Robert A Heinlein Biography
		Destination Moon, the documentary-like film for which he had written story, scenario, and script, and invented many of the effects, won an Academy Award for special effects.
		In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the unjust Lunar Authority that controls the lunar colony is usually referred to simply as "Authority", which leads to an obvious interpretation of the book as a parable for the evils of authority in general, rather than the evils of one particular authority.
		In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, pre-Revolutionary life under the Lunar Authority is portrayed as a kind of anarchist or libertarian utopia; projections of economic disaster are the only justification for the revolution, which brings with it the evils of republican government.
	www.pywrit.com /ebooks/sfh/RobertAHeinlein/RobertAHeinleinBio.htm (3636 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, DESTINATION MOON (1950)
		DESTINATION MOON is arguably one of the most influential science fiction movies of all time, right up there with METROPOLIS (1927), 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, and STAR WARS.
		DESTINATION MOON literally launched the 50s science fiction movie craze, which in turn was reinvented by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark in 1968 and again by George Lucas in 1977.
		The painted backdrops for the moon are marvelous and have all of the bleakness and romance men had dreamed of the moon for thousands of years.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews2/destinationmoon.html (1101 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Destination Moon (1950)
		Destination Moon is one of the seminal science fiction films of all time.
		The film is probably most relevant as an historical document of its times; it absolutely set the world on its ear by convincing the public that a trip to the moon was feasible.
		Viewed in that context, the film still has a certain power to it and it certainly has an importance both to the history of film, and to the history of the 20th century as well.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=97 (1291 words)

	Destination Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		When production on Destination Moon began in 1949, everything about the project was state of the art.
		The film's astronomical visions were realized by Chesley Bonestell, whose artwork virtually defined the look of space travel at the dawn of the rocket era.
		Destination Moon is even noted in NASA's official timeline of space-travel history, and almost inevitably won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
	www.horrorfime.com /movies/destination_moon.htm (251 words)

	The Space Review: Heinlein’s ghost (part 2)
		Whereas Destination Moon clearly had much influence on the technical aspects of science fiction filmmaking, it apparently had far less influence on the stories of films that followed.
		Destination Moon was a message movie, and that may have limited its influence in some ways while enhancing it in others.
		Whereas many films have depicted space as hostile (Solaris, Alien) and many more have portrayed technology and science as dangerous threats that can easily be unleashed by reckless scientists (Frankenstein, Godzilla), in Destination Moon the scientists, engineers, and military men are heroes, space is not inherently hostile, and the universe is mankind’s playground.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/851/1 (2410 words)

	Amazon.com: Reviews for Destination Moon: DVD: Warner Anderson,John Archer,Franklyn Farnum,Everett Glass,Kenner G. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		While the film is quite interesting to look at and the science as solid as was possible at the time, dramatically the film is a huge disappointment.
		"Destination Moon" (1950 - 92 minutes), a classic of the 50's Sci-Fi movies, was produced by George Pal and was directed by Irving Pichel from the script of Alford Van Ronkel which was based on a novel of Robert Heinlen.
		In retrospect, "Destination Moon's" most unique sci-fi genre feature is the absolute refusal of its producers to show anything that deviated from what they believed at the time to be the truth about space travel.
	www.amazon.com /Destination-Moon-Warner-Anderson/dp/customer-reviews/6305761078 (3007 words)

	Cylon Alliance - Rocketship X-M
		Began as a project meant to capitalize on the large budget, highly successful George Pal space film, "Destination Moon", "Rocketship X-M" (short for Rocketship Expedition Moon) was actually released two months before the film it was supposed to follow.
		Despite its weak points, Rocketship XM is undoubtedly one of the trendsetters that, along with Destination Moon, set the stage for scores of movies that copied its style up to the release of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
		The film tells the story of four astronauts (three men, one woman) led by Colonel Graham (Lloyd Bridges) whose journey to the moon is interrupted when a solar wind blows them off course.
	cylon.org /films/XM-intro-01.html (387 words)

	Destination Moon (1950) - The Bad Movie Report
		The moon landing turns out to be much rougher than anticipated (shades of the last-minute maneuvering on the Apollo 11 landing!), but the ship and crew, at least, are intact.
		Sure, we know now that this is not the way to go to the moon, but it was in 1950 - and kudos must be made to the filmmakers for still being able to wring tension from the modern viewer during the adrift-in-space and who-stays-behind segments.
		Destination Moon was very successful upon its release; of course, when a movie is "two years in the making!", the Cormanoids cannot be far behind...
	www.stomptokyo.com /badmoviereport/reviews/D/destination_moon.html (1619 words)

	IGN: Destination Moon Review
		Science fiction films of this era were worlds of fantasy and giant bugs, but this week’s Midnight Movie reflects the hard science focus of a group of up and coming writers, and one writer in particular, Robert Heinlein.
		The film was made in 1950, almost 20 years before the US put a man on the Moon (if, that is, you believe we actually went to the Moon.) Despite some science they got wrong, the film is surprisingly faithful to the difficulties and dangers associated with a real Moon trip.
		Destination Moon doesn’t jump out as a must see film or even one of the classics of the genre, but for fans of classic science fiction, it is a pretty good fable.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/307/307047p1.html (1105 words)

	Mars My Destination: The Golden Age of Red Planet Film
		As early as 1950, films like Destination Moon were giving audiences a glimpse of the future, with a realistic look at space travel.
		In one of the film's more hopeful touches, one of the astronauts succeeds in growing a seed from an Earthly flower in the red soil of Mars.
		Filmed in California's Death Valley, the Mars of Robinson Crusoe looks remarkably realistic, thanks to the orange sky added by special-effect teams -- a prescient touch, considering that the Viking landers didn't reveal the rusty hue of the real planet's sky until 1976.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/movies/mars_destination_chaikin_000310.html (1204 words)

	Robert A. Heinlein's "Destination Moon"--View more exciting scenes from this great film!
		For certain takes, the suits seen in the film had to be padded to simulate inflation, and this made them extremely hot and clumsy for the actors.
		The sound stage used for these scenes had to be kept perfectly free of cigarette smoke and dust, which would produce motes of light due to their colloidal properties and spoil the effect of airlessness.
		And when they land on the moon, they are not as deeply pushed into the couches by the force of deceleration as they were when leaving the earth's more massive gravitational field.
	www.geocities.com /scifiart/DestinationMoon/moon3.html (759 words)

	Fantasy Films
		Fantasy films are often in the context of the imagination, dreams, or hallucinations of a character or within the projected vision of the storyteller.
		Fantasy films are most likely to overlap with the film genres of science fiction and horror.
		When the narrative of a fantasy film tends to emphasize advanced technology in a fantastic world, it may be considered predominantly a science fiction film.
	www.filmsite.org /fantasyfilms.html (1037 words)

	Destination Moon (1950)- Moria The Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Review
		The early scenes in the film are rather dramatically stolid – the technical exposition all comes delivered in boiler-plate dramatics such as the use of a Woody Woodpecker cartoon to explain how the rocket will work.
		The film had an immense optimism that paved the way for every other sf film of the 1950s to follow and its success was something that made producer George Pal into sf cinema’s leading voice of the era.
		It assumes that atomic rockets will be used instead of chemical rockets; there is no tv coverage, instead the head of the expedition gives a single radio interview (a reflection based on the prevalence of radio and the lack of a commercial foothold that tv had made at the time).
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/destinationmoon.htm (1621 words)

	Destination Moon (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The 1950 film Destination Moon, based on the Heinlein book, is incredible for it's accuracy of what was to come 19 years later.
		I'm sure they had McCarthy breathing down their necks enough to use this line: "Whoever gets to the moon first will be able to hit anywhere militarily on Earth and rule the world." In spite of the meglomaniacal military mentality of this, the rest of the film stays off of this track.
		And considering all the B films about space travel since (the one with James Caan in '68, The Stowaway in '74, Capricorn One '79, Mission to Mars '99), this stands out for it's being dead on in many ways, even using 4 astronauts (opposed to 3).
	imdb.com /title/tt0042393 (919 words)

	Robert A. Heinlein's "Destination Moon"--A Science Fiction Masterpiece
		that Destination Moon was a part of this new reality; that this movie was something special, something which differed from the Rocky Jones/Tom Corbett variety of comic book space adventures that I usually watched.
		Destination Moon helped initiate 50's pop-culture into the mysteries of space travel by giving visual and dramatic expression to the archetype that was beginning to animate the world's two great super powers.
		Later in the film, a newspaper article warning of the dangers of the moon rocket's nuclear powered engine is diagnosed as enemy propaganda.
	www.geocities.com /scifiart/DestinationMoon/moon1.htm (737 words)

	Travel Arrangements - Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Destination Moon (1950) features the iconic art of Chesley Bonesteel and a bizarre cameo by Woody Woodpecker.
		This epic film was co-written by Robert Heinlein.
		Missile to the Moon (1959) is spectacular camp at its classic worst with cardboard sets, moon maidens, rock creatures and giant spiders.
	www.miamisci.org /www/spacetoysfilmfestival.html (336 words)

	Destination Moon mistakes, goofs and bloopers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Factual error: Between Earth and the Moon the crew of the spacecraft have an EVA in which they walk on the ship's metal hull with magnetic boots.
		Once en route to the Moon, however, the crew make an EVA in which they walk on the hull with magnetic boots.
		Barnes is hunched on the floor, in a sitting position, and as he is passed a coffee, he rests his elbow upon his knee, very much as one would do on Earth under body weight.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film2882 (440 words)

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