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First Spaceship on Venus. In 1962 the shortened 79-minute dubbed release from Crown International Pictures substituted the title First Spaceship on Venus for the English-speaking market. [6] The film was released theatrically in the U.S. as a double feature with the re-edited version of the 1958 Japanese Kaiju film Varan the Unbelievable.
Wan Hu was a legendary Chinese official who was said to have become the first astronaut by reaching space using a chair affixed with several dozen rockets. The earliest known version of the story comes from a 1909 edition of Scientific American , which names the official as "Wang Tu" and dates his voyage to "about 2,000 years B.C.", more than ...
Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילן רמון; pronounced [(ʔ)iˈlan ʁaˈmon], born Ilan Wolfferman (אילן וולפרמן); June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003) [1] was an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut.
Paramount Pictures, Inc. holding that the practice of block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios constituted anti-competitive and monopolistic trade practices. Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.
That's the one-word message that German astronaut Paula Groth (Peri Baumeister) hears being repeatedly transmitted through space in sci-fi thriller The Signal, now streaming on Netflix.
The revived Lantz studio's first new project was an animated segment of the feature film Destination Moon (1950), produced by Lantz's friend George Pál. In the segment, astronauts are shown an animated educational film featuring Woody Woodpecker explaining rocket propulsion. [17]: 183–185
Destination Moon (a.k.a. Operation Moon) is a 1950 American Technicolor science fiction film, independently produced by George Pal and directed by Irving Pichel, that stars John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, and Dick Wesson.
The Space Odyssey series is a science fiction media franchise created by writer Arthur C. Clarke and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, consisting of two films and four novels.The first novel was developed concurrently with Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film.