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| Theme Day : 1950's Sci-Fi Movies |
| YES ! I love those Classic Films from the 1950's ! ! ! |
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| No, I'll pass on the 1950's Sci-Fi Films |
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Sound_Track
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Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: Theme Day Idea: Science-Fiction Movies of the 1950's |
 
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There's so many Sci-Fi films from the 1950's that I thought they should be honored with their own day. Which day, I don't know.... Maybe you could help with a suggestion.....
Classic Science Fiction Movies From the 1950's:
Destination Moon ( 1950 )
When Worlds Collide ( 1951 )
The Thing From Another World ( 1951 )
The Day the Earth Stood Still ( 1951 )
The War of the Worlds ( 1953 )
Invaders From Mars ( 1953 )
It Came From Outer Space ( 1953 )
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms ( 1953 )
Donovan's Brain ( 1953 )
Them! ( 1954 )
20,000 Leagues under the Sea ( 1954 )
The Creature From The Black Lagoon ( 1954 )
This Island Earth ( 1955 )
Conquest Of Space ( 1955 )
Tarantula ( 1955 )
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers ( 1956 )
Plan 9 from Outer Space ( 1956 )
Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 )
Forbidden Planet ( 1956 )
20 Million Miles to Earth ( 1957 )
The Incredible Shrinking Man ( 1957 )
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman ( 1958 )
The Blob ( 1958 )
The Fly ( 1958 )
It! The Terror from Beyond Space ( 1958 )
Jounney To The Center Of The Earth ( 1959 )
The Return Of The Fly ( 1959 )
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 ld80061
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Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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I like July 20 - the day Armstrong walked on the Moon.
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Sound_Track
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Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I like July 20 - the day Armstrong walked on the Moon. |
Yeah.... but that happened in the '60's....
How about Sputnik 1 -- it was launched on October 4, 1957.
Our, the U.S.'s Explorer 1. Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States when it was sent into space on January 31, 1958.
Following the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was directed to launch a satellite using its Jupiter C rocket developed under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory received the assignment to design, build and operate the artificial satellite that would serve as the rocket's payload. JPL completed this job in less than three months.
Explorer 1 revolved around Earth in a looping orbit that took it as close as 354 kilometers (220 miles) to Earth and as far as 2,515 kilometers (1,563 miles). It made one orbit every 114.8 minutes, or a total of 12.54 orbits per day. The satellite itself was 203 centimeters (80 inches) long and 15.9 centimeters (6.25 inches) in diameter. Explorer 1 made its final transmission on May 23, 1958. It entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up on March 31, 1970, after more than 58,000 orbits.
The primary science instrument on Explorer 1 was a cosmic ray detector designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth orbit. Once in space this experiment, provided by Dr. James Van Allen of the State University of Iowa, revealed a much lower cosmic ray count than expected. Van Allen theorized that the instrument may have been saturated by very strong radiation from a belt of charged particles trapped in space by Earth's magnetic field. The existence of these radiation belts was confirmed by another U.S. satellite launched two months later, and they became known as the Van Allen Belts in honor of their discoverer.
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Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:02 am Post subject: |
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Wouldn't it be better to make it a Science Fiction Day, without the limitations of the year? |
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alien_avatar
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I agree with Valfor. A general Science Fiction Day would appeal to me more. Lots more.
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 LadyInque
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Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:37 am Post subject: |
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I dunno... I kinda like the decade limitation. I might expand it to the 50s and 60s, perhaps, but there's no doubt that the 50s themes possess a certain unique charm. Of course, unique charm could prove grating by the end of the day. |
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Sound_Track
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Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| alien_avatar wrote: |
| I agree with Valfor. A general Science Fiction Day would appeal to me more. Lots more. |
No, I prefer the Decade limtation.... otherowse I see the predictable overwhleming requests for Star Wars, Star Trek, and ET, etc . . . 
I do think it would be good to have a Sci-FI "Blockuster Movie" day to highlight the aforementioned movies, among others.. 
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ld80061
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Sound_Track, I think that Sputnik 1's launch date is a good idea.
But, I don't think that we have enough support to get the '50s classic SF' happening. I suspect that more people prefer a general SF day. Complete with Star Wars, et. al.
Ah well, maybe another time!
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Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: Classic SF theme |
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I also don't think a 50's classic SF is going to happen soon.
From the list of movies posted above SST only has 2 soundtracks from that era ('The Day the Earth Stood Still' and 'Journey To The Center Of The Earth').
SST also has at least two soundtracks from remakes of movies from that era ('War of the Worlds' and 'The Fly'), but that is certainly not 50's.
My guess is that the classic SF theme day is going to happen if the time is expanded from before the 50's to the 60's and maybe even the 70's.
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Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: Re: Classic SF theme |
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| stefan_nl wrote: |
I also don't think a 50's classic SF is going to happen soon.
From the list of movies posted above SST only has 2 soundtracks from that era ('The Day the Earth Stood Still' and 'Journey To The Center Of The Earth').
SST also has at least two soundtracks from remakes of movies from that era ('War of the Worlds' and 'The Fly'), but that is certainly not 50's.
My guess is that the classic SF theme day is going to happen if the time is expanded from before the 50's to the 60's and maybe even the 70's. |
Based on the Logistics of it all, I think you're right.... have together, a 50's and a 60's Sci-Fi Day.
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Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:04 am Post subject: Re: Theme Day Idea: Science-Fiction Movies of the 1950's |
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| Sound_Track wrote: |
There's so many Sci-Fi films from the 1950's that I thought they should be honored with their own day. Which day, I don't know.... Maybe you could help with a suggestion.....
Classic Science Fiction Movies From the 1950's:
Destination Moon ( 1950 )
When Worlds Collide ( 1951 )
The Thing From Another World ( 1951 )
The Day the Earth Stood Still ( 1951 )
The War of the Worlds ( 1953 )
Invaders From Mars ( 1953 )
It Came From Outer Space ( 1953 )
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms ( 1953 )
Donovan's Brain ( 1953 )
Them! ( 1954 )
20,000 Leagues under the Sea ( 1954 )
The Creature From The Black Lagoon ( 1954 )
This Island Earth ( 1955 )
Conquest Of Space ( 1955 )
Tarantula ( 1955 )
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers ( 1956 )
Plan 9 from Outer Space ( 1956 )
Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 )
Forbidden Planet ( 1956 )
20 Million Miles to Earth ( 1957 )
The Incredible Shrinking Man ( 1957 )
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman ( 1958 )
The Blob ( 1958 )
The Fly ( 1958 )
It! The Terror from Beyond Space ( 1958 )
Jounney To The Center Of The Earth ( 1959 )
The Return Of The Fly ( 1959 ) |
Awesome list there! Bring it on! would be most interested in hearing those soundtracks.
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