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Based on the Jules Verne novel (with a hefty dose of Cold War flair), this film doesn’t feel like science fiction. It feels like a proposal . journey 3: from the earth to the moon movie
What struck me most during this journey was the silence. When the cannon fires, it’s loud. But once they leave the atmosphere, the film goes quiet. The hiss of oxygen. The hum of the hull. In 1958, they imagined space as a library, not an ocean. 4 minutes Based on the Jules Verne novel
Journey #3: Shooting the Moon – The Guts and Glory of From the Earth to the Moon (1958) When the cannon fires, it’s loud
This is pre-NASA. This is pre-Sputnik panic (just barely). This is a film made when we assumed space travel would be an extension of artillery science. The aesthetic is Victorian-industrial. Rivets. Steam. Gunpowder.
His solution? Stop shooting at each other and start shooting at the moon.