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Destination Moon
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304013236
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630401323X
Label: Nostalgia Family Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Nostalgia Family Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Nostalgia Family Video
Release Date: February 15, 1996
Running Time: 91 minutes
Studio: Nostalgia Family Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1950-08
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Editorial Review:
When production on Destination Moon began in 1949, everything about the project was state of the art. The great science fiction author Robert Heinlein cowrote the script (based on his novel Rocketship Galileo) and served as technical advisor. The film's astronomical visions were realized by Chesley Bonestell, whose artwork virtually defined the look of space travel at the dawn of the rocket era. Destination Moon is even noted in NASA's official timeline of space-travel history, and almost inevitably won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects. It remains a milestone film, not so much as classic science fiction but--like 2001: A Space Odyssey 18 years later--as an attempt to visualize the reality of space exploration. (To educate the audience on this topic, Woody Woodpecker makes an animated guest appearance, hosting an instructional film on the basics of rocketeering.)
The movie now seems quaintly nostalgic, and its depiction of man's first lunar landing is inaccurate on several details. Taken in context, however, it remains impressively authentic, and conveys the same charm and wonder of the later classic Forbidden Planet. The motivation for the lunar conquest remains military: the country that controls the moon will control the Earth, and cold war paranoia fuels the mission of the rocket ship Luna, which blasts off from the Mojave desert carrying four daring astronauts.
The stalwart crew consists of noted scientists and engineers, but Everyman Joe Sweeney (Dick Wesson) is aboard for broad audience appeal; he's the kind of Bronx-born guy who pronounces "Earth" as "oith" and complains that the moon has "no beer, no babes, no baseball." But when a payload crisis threatens the crew's safe return to Earth, Joe rises to the occasion. It's all a bit goofy now, but Destination Moon is still a wonderful movie, bursting with the awe and enthusiasm that would eventually lead to "one giant leap for mankind." --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great SciFi prior to Space Race
My 1st recalled sci-fi space movie and brings back old memories of the sci-fi I remember opver the last 50+ years
Rating: - Destination Moon
Destination MoonA wonderful look into the imagination of early science fiction writers ideas on how a trip to the moon could be done.Much of it is accurate and some is not ,but the color and special effects are fantastic for 1950.If you can think of yourself as seeing this all for the first time back then it makes it all the more fun to watch and wonder about.
Rating: - No Beer, No Babes, No Baseball - Whadda Adventcha!
I like the early fifties films but never got a chance to really look at Destination Moon. Fueled by Communist paranoia, American business bands together to make it to the moon, since the government in peacetime won't bother. Now come up the line a few decades later, where was NASA in the 1990s? No lunar stations, no manned missions to Mars. This film gets the blood boiling in getting going on the American space program and reinvigorating the goals of space exploration. Heinlein helped co-write ... Read More
Rating: - SOME REVIEWS ARE MISLEADING
I own this DVD and the picture looks perfecfly fine. It's clear and sharp, and rich in color. My only frame of reference is a VHS recording from TCM but this movie looks so much better on the dvd. I did observe the VHS pans to the right. The DVD pans to the left a little. So if a print that is a little more pulled back to get the entire scope is what the issue is then I would agree with the transfer complaints. But if it's only to do with the quality itself then I have to disagree. If by chance you ... Read More
Rating: - Look out, here comes the law...Blast off!
I promise youse guies dis much...until youse see dis rocket take off...I tink youse too will be convinced dat it just won't werk! But...just like 'ol joe sweeney...youse will be pleasantly surprised. Ha!
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