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[Maurice]

I'll PM you the address of the Internet Archive and you can send it there c/o me. If you include return postage I'll send it right back.

And it's a $75K film scanner. The results are quite nice, as per this reel I shared over in another forum.
https://archive.org/details/StarTrekTheMotionPictureMicroCircuitry
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[Bud Brewster]

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Here's what the Multi-Board Alphabetical Index has for this movie.
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* 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) @ SFMB

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) @ All Sci-Fi

20 Million Miles to Earth @ Alien Soup

20 Million Miles to Earth @ Pushing the Envelope

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) @ CHFB

CG Ymir Thoughts (1957) @ CHFB
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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These pre-show and post-show remarks by a lovely TCM hostess are delightful. I've never seen the attractive lady — Tiffany Vasquez — on TCM before. But her remarks were both interesting and well delivered.

The YouTube video was submitted on Jul 31, 2018.
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___ TCM Comments on 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

Alltare and I have been having a discussion in Off Topic Discussions under the title Final Colorization Thoughts, and I offered a suggestion about the colorized Ymir that I thought I should share here as well.

My contention has always been that I love the Ymir's slate gray color because it resembles the graphite drawings I've done.





But when they changed the Ymir's color it went from the glorious gray of polished granite —





— to this downright sickly green!





One of the things I don't like about colorization is the way the colors are rarely as vivid as they would be if the movie had been filmed in color.

So, my suggestion to Alltare was that perhaps they should have made the Ymir even MORE green — like this!





I must confess, this Irish Ymir looks pretty good! It has the look of those beautiful snakes in Asia. By a delightful coincidence, the one below is called a cyclophiops major!

Cool, eh?



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

[Pow]

Read an interesting article recently regarding the Christmas classic TV special show "Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer" (1964).

The technology of using articulated metal armature inside the figures and then moving the figures a frame at a time was considered groundbreaking by the TV Guide Magazine.

They devoted 4 pages covering the process that they apparently had never heard of before, feeling it was revolutionary.

It certainly was...in 1931 for "King Kong."

[Bud Brewster]

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect the writer of TV Guide article was keenly aware that the general public had no idea how either King Kong or the Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer special was created, and he wanted to educate his poor, clueless readers.

Frankly I wouldn't have my own keen appreciation for stop motion if I hadn't spent many hours trying to use clay models to make a few 8mm films in the 1960s.




~ Click on the image to see my animation video, with the scene shown above appearing at the 3:55 mark.

I'm sure the TV guide author understood that he was explaining a time-honored technique to a brand new generation . . . who knew nothing about it several decades after it was invented.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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Here's five interesting videos for this movie!

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___ _Movie Trailer - 20 Million Miles To Earth (1957)


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_____ 20 Million Miles To Earth (colorized) - Trailer

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_______ 20 Million Miles to Earth - Ymir Awakens

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[The Spike]

Why is it always, always so costly for Man to move from the present to the future?

20 Million Miles to Earth is written by Bob Williams and Christopher Knopf from an original treatment by Charlott Knight. The film was produced by Charles H. Schneer's Morningside Productions for Columbia Pictures and directed by Nathan H. Juran. It stars William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia and a Ymir, a creation by stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen.

The plot sees an American rocket ship on its return from a mission to Venus, crash land in the Mediterranean Sea near the Sicilian village of Gerra. Some fishermen aid the stricken ship and manage to pull free two survivors, Colonel Bob Calder and Dr. Sharman. Once Calder recovers it becomes known that an important canister brought from Venus has not been found after the crash. However, Pepe, a young fisher-boy who was present at the rescue, found the container and sold its rubbery contents to his Zoologist friend Dr. Leonardo. Whilst in the hands of Dr. Leonardo the gelatin like substance gives birth to a tiny Venusian bipedal creature called a Ymir, but it doesn't stay tiny for very long...

As the work of Dynamation legend Harryhausen got more accomplished and praised, it became a standing joke that his creatures were better actors than most of their adult co-stars. That's never more truer than with 20 Million Miles to Earth, where one of his best creations takes centre stage and acts the actors off the screen. It's also true that some, not all, of Harryhausen influenced movies are just thin clothes lines to hang his work upon. Thankfully that isn't the case here, for although it's homage a go go to King Kong, where Harryhausen hero Willis O'Brien pioneered the stop-motion process, Juran's movie has intelligence within its on the surface monster on the rampage plot.

There's nothing totally new in this genre piece about mans pursuit of more via technological advancement, the unremitting pursuit of science as a tool or plaything. So where Jeff Goldblum mused in Jurassic Park many years later, about that nobody stopped to ask if they should be tampering with science and nature, so it be here. Where the Ymir creature is whipped from its home planet, starts off harmless, afraid, puzzled and very much a stranger in a strange land, yet is provoked into an aggressive state. This even after we are told that the Ymir only attacks if being attacked first, cue next scene as man who said it starts poking confused creature with a big pole! You would laugh if it were it not so adroitly cunning.

Not only does the big question of "why?" loom large as things spiral out of control here in Italy, but animal rights are also given a poke, as is a nice thread as regards guns. It's just too cute not to mean something as Pepe, quite the capitalist indeed, wants to be an American cowboy. Buying himself a Texas hat he happily starts clicking away with his toy guns like some Western cowboy of the silver screen. You just know what is around the corner, soon enough the mighty army are throwing everything at poor Ymir, guns, tanks, bazookas, flame throwers, you name it and the mighty military are using it. America flexes its weaponry muscles on foreign soil, indeed. Against something that they are responsible for being here in the first place! You would laugh if it wee not so cunning...

Of course the trump card here is the creature itself because it shows a number of basic emotions. Harryhausen works his magic as Ymir goes through the various stages of its sad stay on Earth. From its brilliant birthing sequence where it rubs its eyes and shies away from the light, to the rousing finale at the Colosseum where rage and anger has fully taken over as the creature fights for its life; on a planet it doesn't know or wanted to be on anyway. This "thing" may eat Sulphur, but it has one hell of a personality thanks to Ray, who sat at his table for days on end creating these wonderful sequences for us to enjoy. Letting the creature breath, flick its tale and wrestle other animals. Quite a character indeed.

No personalities with the human cast though, Hopper (son of actress and gossip columnist, Hedda) is lantern jawed adequate enough for the role, and Taylor is pretty but playing a totally perfunctory character. While the Italian characters are as stereotypical as they come. But just like King Kong, 20 Million Miles to Earth has many fans who just adore it. More so now as advancements in DVD technology have seen remastered releases (even with a colour choice that's not bad at all) reach a new and interested audience. A fine fine film that rises above its failings due to a wizard at his work table and some brainy cheekiness from the writers. 7.5/10
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[Gord Green]

Spike, I think you touched on the essence once again.

As "charming" as the young Italian lad was and as bold and brave the American was, the true outstanding character of the film was the Ymir!

I remember as a kid first viewing this movie how tragic I felt the ending was! THE YMIR SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY!!

Not Rays fault...but definitely a bummer!
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[The Spike]