Tag: outer space
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Suit Up
Right: Gary Westfahl At LOCUS Online, Paul Di Filippo reviews the new book, The Spacesuit Film: A History 1918 – 1969, by one of my favorite commentators, the always erudite and entertaining Dr. Gary Westfahl. Filippo says: As the subtitle to this volume indicates, Westfahl will venture back almost to the dawn of cinema to…
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Back In the USSR
From the Austin Film Society, a fascinating article about the 1936 Russian film, Cosmic Voyage: Despite its impressive accuracy in several aspects of space travel, the Soviet sci-fi film COSMIC VOYAGE (1936) was scarcely known to exist until recently. Fritz Lang’s German sci-fi film WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929) received much wider distribution and exhibition…