Amazing movie, on top of the six years of schooling and two years of professional experience, astronauts must complete two years of mandatory basic training. All of this adds up to about a decade of preparation. After that, astronauts may need to wait months or years before they can even embark on their first space mission yet our friends here managed to go shopping for their nice blue coveralls and teach somebody to operate the rocket. If NASA had similar people they would save a ton of money. I guess they called the wife to prepare a picnic basket for the trip.
unlike Hollywood, NASA has to content with the fact that once in space that astronaut is on their own so if something goes wrong they have to fix it. sure ground can give advice, but it is all those hours of practice and training the astronaut has the will save their ass. example is space x, like this movie, it is a rich guy going to space on his own. and watch musk's stock crash when a flight goes bad. And the story this movie is based on, "The Man Who Sold the Moon" Harriman the rich guy, dies on the moon.
Love the enormous amount of stars visible from the moon, far more than from here on Earth. And the fact that they took at least a wrench, a hacksaw and a screwdriver with them, just in case they were needed. And they were !
Fun Fact: The first rocket launched Cape Canaveral was launched in 1950 (the year they made this film) and was a modified German V2. Just like the one in the opening!
What an amazing movie! I have known of Destination Moon by reputation since I was a kid over fifty years ago and only about the making of it and its visual effects. I was always a fan of these great s-f films of the 1950's. My personal opinion is George Pal was definitely the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction movies back then. I need a copy of this film! Thanks SO much for posting it! A real treat!
1956 my dad took me to see Forbidden Planet, 2nd feature was Destination Moon being rereleased. It was a magic afternoon and one of my earliest memories, I was only 4 years old. Both films had a tremendous impact on me and that was when I became a sci-fi fan.
@@kevingoligher3393 No, I didn`t. He wrote many other great novels, but this was the only movie screenplay he was directly involved in, though some of his other works have been adapted to the screen by different people later, notably "Starship Troopers". This was an adaptation to the screen of "Rocketship Galileo," though there are many differences. Whether the changes were the problem or something else was going on it was reported later that he didn`t exactly enjoy the experience of adapting his book to the screen and never worked as a Hollywood screenwriter again as a consequence. The result still turned out to be one of the first classic SF films of the 1950s though.
This is not unlike watching a live action movie adaptation of famous Belgian cartoonist Hergé's ''Explorers on the Moon'' (1954) in his outstanding TinTin comic book series. Lots of different things of course but Hergé must have been inspired by Destination Moon.
It was very arrogant to state that there must have been sabotage, when so many things could have gone wrong with the design and construction of that rocket.
The Academy Award-winning visual effects were supervised by Lee Zavitz (miniatures) and Chesley Bonestell (mattes). One of the finest science fiction films made in the last 75 years. Bar none.
Even Wernher von Braun got it wrong. A single stage, or large 2nd stage, can't get to the moon without refueling. It must shed mass along the way. The Apollo command module, the only part returned to the earths surface, was one five hundredth of the total launch mass.
Well, back when this movie was made future rockets were way more powerful and efficient. They used the whole rocket and refuelled when they got home, with plenty of extra fuel for side trips or dodging tightly packed asteroid clusters or chasing aliens. Just like cars and ships.
@@lycian123 Not at first. He was totally in support of a single rocket without stages. It took another engineer to show him how the multi-stage rocket and multi-module spacecraft were necessary. There is a video about it, with footage of the meetings they had. Everyone believed Wernher von Braun would argue against the man, but he believed him and changed his mind about the design.
Love how so many of these different Sci-fi movies all used the original real test footage from the Nazi's V2 Vengeance Rockets that we took from Germany in order to gain our own R&D on the liquid fueled Rocket technology. But they definitely had some good steps ahead of us in this department. Just the amazing things the Germans put into the totally analog mechanical guidance systems. Back long before we had a microchip! It was all running off (Valves) vacuum tubes and extremely crude and giant electronics. It's pretty damn amazing that somehow in 1950s we went from this point to a decade later actually or supposedly going to the moon?!?!? IDK personally and my jury is still out on this topic, weather or not we actually did exactly what we were shown? But if we did so? That's absolutely amazing how far we came so quickly with technology at that point......
I knew Lee Zavitz. We often fished salmon together in Egmont BC. Lee was an expert in using explosives. He had never hurt anybody doing special,effects so stars liked to have Lee do the explosions. He claimed he could make any city in the world any camouflage colour they wanted but he Norden bomb sight spoiled it. A,good man.
I saw it then and certainly did. I built and launched rockets in the 1950s as a result of watching. The movie had a profound affect on me. I wrote White Sands where V-2s were being tested. The CO wrote me and sent a photo of a V-2 being launched. I actually contacted him years later. He responded. Col. Schorads (not correct spelling)
*In 'Peggy Sue Got Married' the nerd said: "1969? That's six years ahead of schedule."* I don't know if that scriptwriter researched it but 1975 sounds kind of familiar. The Collier's Magazine articles didn't include a projected date.
@@jsl151850b John Kennedy announced on May 25, 1961, that the United States “should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.”
Prop guy "How should the rocket look?" "Just find pictures of those Nazi V2s and make a little more fancy....everyone knows THAT is what a rocket looks like"
I've noticed that in film, those who smoke cigars never seem to get one that won't draw. I have to "operate" on about 40% of mine with a shank of clothes hanger and some still smoke like a wood dowel. 😡
This film is only a year older than I am. Obviously, we still haven't got a working nuclear thermal drive yet. So much in that film, though, could have been a template for Apollo. Now we have Starship and yes, Texas is still the only state big enough to hold it !
I'll give this flick marks for doing the best they could with 1950 tech and knowlege. Mostly boring, except for the last few minutes of doing a Mcgyver style escape from the Moon's surface.
The reaction of the general at 37 mins in, reminds me of the one and only time I ate a Phal Curry.....or should I say it reminded me of the following morning 😩💩
This combines a lot of interesting things. First the echos of Otis Carr's R&D and its sabotage, the combined industries principle, a conglomerate pattern that was utilized to built Boulder Dam that was the pattern for the Apollo project . . . and great footage of actual projects melded into the movie. PS: This was a propaganda film of course, selling the idea to the taxpayers
_"There may be more explosions"_ - after striking the desert at 2,500 mph? If one knew any science at all, one would know that plasmas are *_beyond_* exploding. FAIL. (Disneytime).
18:40 this was the strategic justification for going to the moon though it was completely wrong. It also explains why America hasn’t gone back in over 50 years and no other country has sent people there or set up a moon base. It wasn’t practical when the same could be done from space stations in low Earth orbit . I’m sure the military already knew that but needed some excuse to spend billions going to the moon mainly for political reasons. How things have changed. But we can’t blame them for not having our historical perspective. Personally I think it’s foolish to send humans into space or to other planets when robots as we have now or like in the movie “ Avatar “ could simulate the experience of being there in virtual reality without risking human lives. We aren’t made to go into space or alien planets. That’s not only a religious idea but scientific as well are adapted to living on Earth and Earth gravity. But this is entertainment and an important historical document on technology of the early 1950’s and cultural and political attitudes. I have had this movie on hard drive for about 25 year but never really watched it. Movies to me are important historical documents reflecting the culture at the they were produced. That’s pretty much all they will be in the distant future when viewers will no longer understand the language.
Perhaps I have been jaded by the developments since 1950, but the picture is much too hokey for me. There was way too much wasted room in the crew compartment of the rocket ship; to keep mass down, one must keep size down. The size of the rocket in space when they were outside walking around (EVA) was tiny compared to the size after they landed on the moon. Lifelines were not solidly tied down to the ship, much less to the hatch, and they were much too short. No intelligent person would let go of a lifeline to check something unimportant, even with magnetic boots. No reasonable engineer would allow insufficient fuel capacity to allow for maneuvering during the landing on the moon to avoid rocks. Even Armstrong in Apollo 11 had more than enough fuel to maneuver to avoid rocks-25 seconds is a long time. If they can afford the mass of a radiation shield, they can afford the mass of excess fuel for maneuvering. They were concerned that they did not have enough fuel to leave the moon; how did they expect to land on Earth? And, of course, it makes no sense to think that we/they can get to the moon and back with one whole spaceship. It is much too obvious, these days at least, that useless mass must be left after launch to land on the moon. And, by extension, useless mass must be left on the moon to launch from the moon. It was not so obvious in 1950? Yes, we the public all bought into the one ship concept back in the day, but we the public gave no thought regarding the real, actual physics and tradeoffs involved and required for such an undertaking. And, lastly, it seems much too obvious that the mass of a radiation shield would make the spaceship much too heavy for the task. But, even if we agree to ignore that, the movie was much too hokey for me. Joe
They used the word MOTOR because electric cars were invented and used in the early 1900's. People and later Old timers at the time this movie was made used the word MOTOR when Engines we're later used in cars like Fords' Model T.
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This film won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects! When you watch it, you're experiencing the best visual effects from 1950s cinema. 🎥🚀
this is such well restored version
Reall great movie, the attention to detail is amazing!
Il y a longtemps, que j'ai pas vu se magnifique film de SF des années 50! Merci pour le partage nostalgique! Salutations de France. 🇫🇷😉🖖🇺🇲
@@christopheschwartz7374 Vive la France.
Amazing movie, on top of the six years of schooling and two years of professional experience, astronauts must complete two years of mandatory basic training. All of this adds up to about a decade of preparation. After that, astronauts may need to wait months or years before they can even embark on their first space mission yet our friends here managed to go shopping for their nice blue coveralls and teach somebody to operate the rocket. If NASA had similar people they would save a ton of money.
I guess they called the wife to prepare a picnic basket for the trip.
unlike Hollywood, NASA has to content with the fact that once in space that astronaut is on their own so if something goes wrong they have to fix it. sure ground can give advice, but it is all those hours of practice and training the astronaut has the will save their ass. example is space x, like this movie, it is a rich guy going to space on his own. and watch musk's stock crash when a flight goes bad. And the story this movie is based on, "The Man Who Sold the Moon" Harriman the rich guy, dies on the moon.
Love the enormous amount of stars visible from the moon, far more than from here on Earth. And the fact that they took at least a wrench, a hacksaw and a screwdriver with them, just in case they were needed. And they were !
Apollo 13.
Fun Fact: The first rocket launched Cape Canaveral was launched in 1950 (the year they made this film) and was a modified German V2. Just like the one in the opening!
Fantastic movie real Classic, waiting forever for a nice blu ray print.
What an amazing movie! I have known of Destination Moon by reputation since I was a kid over fifty years ago and only about the making of it and its visual effects. I was always a fan of these great s-f films of the 1950's. My personal opinion is George Pal was definitely the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction movies back then. I need a copy of this film! Thanks SO much for posting it! A real treat!
1956 my dad took me to see Forbidden Planet, 2nd feature was Destination Moon being rereleased. It was a magic afternoon and one of my earliest memories, I was only 4 years old. Both films had a tremendous impact on me and that was when I became a sci-fi fan.
I have seen this movie so many times & LOVE EVERY BIT OF IT GREAT MOVIE
Robert A Heinlein`s only screen credit and the only time he worked with Hollywood. Things clearly didn't go well!
you forgot " project moonbase", and the Puppet Masters"
and Door into summer, Predestination, Red Planet and Starship troopers.
@@kevingoligher3393 No, I didn`t. He wrote many other great novels, but this was the only movie screenplay he was directly involved in, though some of his other works have been adapted to the screen by different people later, notably "Starship Troopers".
This was an adaptation to the screen of "Rocketship Galileo," though there are many differences. Whether the changes were the problem or something else was going on it was reported later that he didn`t exactly enjoy the experience of adapting his book to the screen and never worked as a Hollywood screenwriter again as a consequence.
The result still turned out to be one of the first classic SF films of the 1950s though.
Good old German V2 at work.......
This is not unlike watching a live action movie adaptation of famous Belgian cartoonist Hergé's ''Explorers on the Moon'' (1954) in his outstanding TinTin comic book series. Lots of different things of course but Hergé must have been inspired by Destination Moon.
As well as Jeeps, pith helmets.
Cool chairs in his office. 😊
Excellent.
It was very arrogant to state that there must have been sabotage, when so many things could have gone wrong with the design and construction of that rocket.
That was Great!
Now I know where Hérge got the idea for the design of the rocket for the Tintin album.
Wonderful to see how we viewed space flight in 1950. I think they got the extra gs during blast-off with one of NASA's human centrifuges.
NASA did not exist in 1950.
41:39 Foreshadowing of 2001 A Space Odyssey, or an homage to this superb film.
39:53 *Upper right corner. Red circle,* 40:00 *Upper right corner. Red circle.*
The Academy Award-winning visual effects were supervised by Lee Zavitz (miniatures) and Chesley Bonestell (mattes). One of the finest science fiction films made in the last 75 years. Bar none.
*The EVA long shot was reminiscent of the George Pal Puppettoons!*
Footage from project Paperclip!
It looks like the first part was filmed in whitesands, New Mexico.
They used footage from actual V-2 Rocket Tests after WW II
This was so cool to watch, yeah it was corny in a sense and the effects what you get for the time but this was still a great movie.
Even Wernher von Braun got it wrong. A single stage, or large 2nd stage, can't get to the moon without refueling. It must shed mass along the way. The Apollo command module, the only part returned to the earths surface, was one five hundredth of the total launch mass.
The Saturn rockets were designed by von Braun and the German team he took with him to the US. He completely understood it.
Well, back when this movie was made future rockets were way more powerful and efficient. They used the whole rocket and refuelled when they got home, with plenty of extra fuel for side trips or dodging tightly packed asteroid clusters or chasing aliens. Just like cars and ships.
@@lycian123 Not at first. He was totally in support of a single rocket without stages. It took another engineer to show him how the multi-stage rocket and multi-module spacecraft were necessary. There is a video about it, with footage of the meetings they had. Everyone believed Wernher von Braun would argue against the man, but he believed him and changed his mind about the design.
😅landing just like SpaceX does today.
They are building it in Texas 😂
00:02:43 - A V2 rocket, likely one of those captured at the end of WW2 and tested in the U.S.
Love how so many of these different Sci-fi movies all used the original real test footage from the Nazi's V2 Vengeance Rockets that we took from Germany in order to gain our own R&D on the liquid fueled Rocket technology. But they definitely had some good steps ahead of us in this department. Just the amazing things the Germans put into the totally analog mechanical guidance systems. Back long before we had a microchip! It was all running off (Valves) vacuum tubes and extremely crude and giant electronics. It's pretty damn amazing that somehow in 1950s we went from this point to a decade later actually or supposedly going to the moon?!?!? IDK personally and my jury is still out on this topic, weather or not we actually did exactly what we were shown? But if we did so? That's absolutely amazing how far we came so quickly with technology at that point......
Nearly two decades (1950 - 1969) and the lunar missions absolutely did happen.
I knew Lee Zavitz. We often fished salmon together in Egmont BC. Lee was an expert in using explosives. He had never hurt anybody doing special,effects so stars liked to have Lee do the explosions. He claimed he could make any city in the world any camouflage colour they wanted but he Norden bomb sight spoiled it. A,good man.
Q. Do you think anyone seeing this movie in 1950 really thought we would be putting men ON THE MOON in only 20 years????😮
I saw it then and certainly did. I built and launched rockets in the 1950s as a result of watching. The movie had a profound affect on me. I wrote White Sands where V-2s were being tested. The CO wrote me and sent a photo of a V-2 being launched. I actually contacted him years later. He responded. Col. Schorads (not correct spelling)
75 years later and they still haven't managed it... nowhere near. LEO is the limit for manned vessels it seems.
*In 'Peggy Sue Got Married' the nerd said: "1969? That's six years ahead of schedule."*
I don't know if that scriptwriter researched it but 1975 sounds kind of familiar.
The Collier's Magazine articles didn't include a projected date.
@@jsl151850b so now they are 56 years behind schedule… and still kicking the can down the road.
@@jsl151850b John Kennedy announced on May 25, 1961, that the United States “should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.”
Back to the drawing board 🤣
In their spacesuits they look like (and remind me) of Telly Tubbies!
Funny thing about the Apollo 11 mission--they almost ran out of fuel on the way down.
Broken circuit breaker knob nearly left them stranded on the moon.
@@alancranford3398 Actually, they had several seconds of fuel left. Armstrong knew what he was doing. Joe
I found this film more realistic than the actual moon landings.
Definitely!
Idiocracy.
This movie is only 16 years before Star Trek....amazing difference in tech.
@@Jasona1976 I think it’s more than 16 years
@ I think ST pilot was made in ‘66
Prop guy "How should the rocket look?" "Just find pictures of those Nazi V2s and make a little more fancy....everyone knows THAT is what a rocket looks like"
12:07 *Special Guest Appearance by Woody Woodp[ecker.*
George Pal and Walter Lantz were friends.
So that is where SpaceX got the idea for starship
Old but good...
Surprising that they envisaged a countdown back then, even though they missed the reason for it.
The first movie countdown was Fritz Lang's 'Frau im Moon'.(1929)
I've noticed that in film, those who smoke cigars never seem to get one that won't draw. I have to "operate" on about 40% of mine with a shank of clothes hanger and some still smoke like a wood dowel. 😡
This film is only a year older than I am. Obviously, we still haven't got a working nuclear thermal drive yet. So much in that film, though, could have been a template for Apollo. Now we have Starship and yes, Texas is still
the only state big enough to hold it !
SpaceX 😎👍🏻😜
@@planetdisco4821 Elon totally watched this and moved to Texas.
Just like in the movie 😂
I'll give this flick marks for doing the best they could with 1950 tech and knowlege. Mostly boring, except for the last few minutes of doing a Mcgyver style escape from the Moon's surface.
Hey everybody Harry Carrey here!.if the moon was made of bbq ribs would you eat it!?..its a simple question,don't jerk me around!.Cubs win Cubs win!
The reaction of the general at 37 mins in, reminds me of the one and only time I ate a Phal Curry.....or should I say it reminded me of the following morning 😩💩
This combines a lot of interesting things. First the echos of Otis Carr's R&D and its sabotage, the combined industries principle, a conglomerate pattern that was utilized to built Boulder Dam that was the pattern for the Apollo project . . . and great footage of actual projects melded into the movie.
PS: This was a propaganda film of course, selling the idea to the taxpayers
I think the real moon landing deserved an oscar also...
Future forecasting @34:43: They even mention integrating “computer.”
Magnificent desolation
Credits say it’s from a Robert Heinlein novel, but doesn’t bother listing the title: “Rocketship Galileo”
Many of these actors died now
Made in 1949, they are all dead.
You think? It WAS made 75yrs ago you lemon!
It's called *_the passage of time._*
Musk's entire SpaceX racket is based on the plot of this film, isn't it?!?
from the earth to the moon, for the sake of all mankind.
Curious why they weren't tethered in the axemen where one almost floated off. They had rope.
A commercial every 5 minutes …….on the dot. Makes it hard to watch.
Apart from the suspension of scientific disbelief.
Subscribe and they disappear.
lol! It’s 1950.
To many commercials. Every 1 there is a commercial.
Hey they ripped off Tin Tin😂😂😂😂
Herge actually ripped off this. The old 1960s Telle Hachete/Bellvision TV version of TinTin even "adapted" the music.
What ? No Moon monster ?
Meant evey minute
It only took 75 years and this movie is coming true thanks to Elon.
4 astronauts with no training😅
jika ada orang indo yang lebih space geek dari gw coba bales komen ini, gw pngen tau kek apa lu! 😂
_"There may be more explosions"_ - after striking the desert at 2,500 mph? If one knew any science at all, one would know that plasmas are *_beyond_* exploding. FAIL. (Disneytime).
18:40 this was the strategic justification for going to the moon though it was completely wrong. It also explains why America hasn’t gone back in over 50 years and no other country has sent people there or set up a moon base. It wasn’t practical when the same could be done from space stations in low Earth orbit . I’m sure the military already knew that but needed some excuse to spend billions going to the moon mainly for political reasons. How things have changed. But we can’t blame them for not having our historical perspective. Personally I think it’s foolish to send humans into space or to other planets when robots as we have now or like in the movie “ Avatar “ could simulate the experience of being there in virtual reality without risking human lives. We aren’t made to go into space or alien planets. That’s not only a religious idea but scientific as well are adapted to living on Earth and Earth gravity. But this is entertainment and an important historical document on technology of the early 1950’s and cultural and political attitudes. I have had this movie on hard drive for about 25 year but never really watched it. Movies to me are important historical documents reflecting the culture at the they were produced. That’s pretty much all they will be in the distant future when viewers will no longer understand the language.
Perhaps I have been jaded by the developments since 1950, but the picture is much too hokey for me. There was way too much wasted room in the crew compartment of the rocket ship; to keep mass down, one must keep size down. The size of the rocket in space when they were outside walking around (EVA) was tiny compared to the size after they landed on the moon. Lifelines were not solidly tied down to the ship, much less to the hatch, and they were much too short. No intelligent person would let go of a lifeline to check something unimportant, even with magnetic boots. No reasonable engineer would allow insufficient fuel capacity to allow for maneuvering during the landing on the moon to avoid rocks. Even Armstrong in Apollo 11 had more than enough fuel to maneuver to avoid rocks-25 seconds is a long time. If they can afford the mass of a radiation shield, they can afford the mass of excess fuel for maneuvering. They were concerned that they did not have enough fuel to leave the moon; how did they expect to land on Earth? And, of course, it makes no sense to think that we/they can get to the moon and back with one whole spaceship. It is much too obvious, these days at least, that useless mass must be left after launch to land on the moon. And, by extension, useless mass must be left on the moon to launch from the moon. It was not so obvious in 1950? Yes, we the public all bought into the one ship concept back in the day, but we the public gave no thought regarding the real, actual physics and tradeoffs involved and required for such an undertaking. And, lastly, it seems much too obvious that the mass of a radiation shield would make the spaceship much too heavy for the task. But, even if we agree to ignore that, the movie was much too hokey for me. Joe
I think there necks would be stiff in that position
but the astronaut's aren't smoking.. no hysterical women slap scene.... not a true 50's scifi 🙂
Motor 🤣
They used the word MOTOR because electric cars were invented and used in the early 1900's. People and later Old timers at the time this movie was made used the word MOTOR when Engines we're later used in cars like Fords' Model T.
Muricans. Couldn't they do anything educational without an infantile cartoon. Oh how they laughed.
what a laughable DOG. And they asked serious scientists for advice? It sure does not show.