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Rocky Jones Astral Engineer
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Pow wrote: | ...We see the door # as 306 at the hospital for Klaatu's room...He also states that his room # while he was there for two days was 309. |
Maybe creatures from his planet can be vertically dyslexic. Flip "306" and it's "309". |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 12:56 am Post subject: |
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Rocky Jones wrote: | Pow wrote: | ...We see the door # as 306 at the hospital for Klaatu's room...He also states that his room # while he was there for two days was 309. |
Maybe creatures from his planet can be vertically dyslexic. Flip "306" and it's "309". |
Wouldn't 306 flipped be 90E? Just sayin' . . . _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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orzel-w Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 2:16 am Post subject: |
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I think Rocky is flipping it about a horizontal axis in the plane of the door (i.e., top-to-bottom) rather than spinning it about an axis perpendicular to the door.
(Say... couldn't people with dyslexia just be considered X-Men with dyslex-o-vision?) _________________ ...or not...
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Rocky Jones Astral Engineer
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 11:07 am Post subject: |
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Yes, Orzel's got it. 306 to 90E would be spinning, not flipping. That could suggest yet an entirely different type of dyslexic condition. It might be accompanied by dizziness. |
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Robert (Butch) Day Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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Oh. Walt Dizzlexia. As it appears that STAR WARS Episode VII The Force Awakens has given to me. (I appear to see the same plot elements.) _________________ Common Sense ISN'T Common |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Classic Horror Film Board member skelton knaggs posted the photo below, along with this proud message.
Michael Rennie's suit from the DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) as it appeared in THE ROCKET MAN (1954)
Oh boy, this is the kind of thing I love doing, finding props from beloved movies and solving little mysteries connected with them.
The mystery this time is whether or not this is Klaatu's helmet and suit. The first part is easy. That is definitely Klaatu's helmet.
And as for the suit, the rings on the collars match, but the sleeve rings on the "Rocket Man" suit are on the wrist, while the rings on Klaatu's suit are on the forearms. If it is Klaatu's suit, some alien seamstress has been hard at work making alterations. She probably had to take it in a little, because Michael Rennie was a tall, broad-shouldered fellow.
But you'd think the skilled non-human tailor with her nimble thimble would have told the poor alien guy how to wear the suit correctly!
His got it on backwards!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Rocky Jones Astral Engineer
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:35 am Post subject: |
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Both were 20th Century Fox films, thus used the same costume warehouse. Unless they had a spare lying around it would be the same costume, I suppose. I wasn't familiar with The Rocket Man. Charles Coburn and Spring Byington in a low-budget sci-fi scripted by Lenny Bruce? Waa? |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Rocky Jones wrote: | I wasn't familiar with The Rocket Man. Charles Coburn and Spring Byington in a low-budget sci-fi scripted by Lenny Bruce? Waa? |
I guess this is about the only sci-fi movie from the 1950s I have never seen, and I can't find a download of it anywhere. But the trailer makes it look like a lot of fun!
And where else can you see John Agar playing Anne Francis' boyfriend?
But Fox Cinema Archives has it, and Amazon offers it for $20. I am SO tempted to get this one!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Robert (Butch) Day Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 5:42 am Post subject: |
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Klaatu's and Gort's saucer today:
I don't know who's collection this is but I suspect Bob Burns. _________________ Common Sense ISN'T Common |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 11:29 am Post subject: |
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I wonder why the slope on the flat section between the dome and the outer edge looks steeper than it should. And someone seems to have added a bulge beneath it, preventing it from having the flat bottom it originally had.
I found the same picture at this site, but it doesn't say who owns the model.
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~ The Space Children (1958)
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Robert (Butch) Day Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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The bottom additions were done for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (ABC 1964 - 1968). _________________ Common Sense ISN'T Common |
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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As Butch wrote, the changers were made for a very good first season episode of VTTBOTS, where it housed a mini shuttle saucer. Bob Burns owns the saucer, he had it on display at the 96 World con. I asked him if he had the mini saucer, but he said that it was long gone before he got it.
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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I'm still puzzled. Notice how flat the area between the dome and edge look in this shot —
— compared to this one. Could this really be the same model?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Krel Guest
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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 8:25 am Post subject: |
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It is the same model, the shallow dome piece on the bottom, was added to the saucer model for the "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" episode, "The Sky is Falling". In the episode, the underside dome held a small shuttle saucer that would dock with the Seaview.
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