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[Bud Brewster]

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IMDB has 13 trivia items for this movie. Here's a few of the ones I found the most interesting.
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The robots Gog and Magog were operated by midgets.

Note from me: This idea was used again in Silent Running, in a way, when the small "drones" were operated by four multiple-amputee actors: Mark Persons, Steve Brown, Cheryl Sparks, and Larry Whisenhunt. The operators walked on their hands, and the size of the drone suits was clearly too small for full-sized people.

The centrifuge scene was filmed at USC. The actors became sick and were replaced by dummies.

Note from me: I'm not sure I believe that the centrifuge is anything but a rather badly designed prop. It spins the people around while they're sitting sideways — which would just throw them out if it didn't spin slowly!

As of April 2005, only one complete dual-projector stereoscopic 3-D print is known to exist anywhere in the world. The Left and Right prints do not match: the color is severely faded on one side, but the film is still viewable in 3-D.

Note from me: This sad situation is no longer true, since the 3D Blu-ray is supposed to be excellent.

Director Herbert L. Strock had very poor vision in one eye and consequently was unable to properly gauge how the 3-D effects were, and had to rely on others to tell him. Confidentially, Andr?? De Toth, who directed House of Wax (1953), arguably the most famous 3-D film, only had one eye and could not see the 3-D effects at all.

Note from me: It's sad that the directors of these two famous 3D film were unable to fully enjoy their own movies.

The 2016 Kino-Lorber 3D Blu-ray release of this movie features an audio commentary by Tom Weaver, Bob Furmanek and David Schecter.

Note from me: I've had the Blu-ray for several months, but I haven't watched it yet. I also don't have 3D equipment. However, I'm planning to watch the 2D version this evening (Oct 29th) in the chat room with Bulldogtrekker and Gord Green.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[scotpens]

[Gord Green]

In the Islamic apocalyptic tradition, the end of the world would be preceded by the release of Gog and Magog, whose destruction by God in a single night would usher in the Day of Resurrection.

The Gog prophecy is meant to be fulfilled at the approach of what is called the "end of days", but not necessarily the end of the world.

Jewish eschatology viewed Gog and Magog as enemies to be defeated by the Messiah, which will usher in the age of the Messiah.

Christianity's interpretation is more starkly apocalyptic: making Gog and Magog allies of Satan against God at the end of the millennium, as can be read in the Book of Revelation.

[Bud Brewster]

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Thanks, soctpens. I corrected my statement.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Krel]

If you look at the space suits that they are wearing on the merry-go-round centrifuge, they are the space suits from "Abbott and Costello Go To Mars".

David.

[scotpens]

[Gord Green]

Imagine if today more physical effect elements were reused the cost of films could be controlled and greatly reduced..

Some of the best films were created by individuals who were more concerned by vision than budget.

[Bud Brewster]

[scotpens]

YouTube has a clean, sharp HD copy of Gog without the French subtitles. Grab it while you can!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFW3i2hVxbQ

[Phantom]

I saw this one in February 1955 (I have a copy of the newspaper ad). It was on a double with a Judy Canova movie Untamed Heiress, of which I don't remember a frame (probably lucky, at that).

Except for the clunky multi-appendage robots and Michael Fox's chilly death (which raised my hair), I had forgotten the rest of the movie.

Snapped up the dvd as soon as it became available. It has its faults, but it isn't exceptionally bad like Killers From Space. It's okay for occasional viewing when nothing else is available.

Apart from the robots swinging their arms around like drunken boxers, the best scene in the film was the laser attack. As for those tuning forks (or whatever they were) I could never understand why someone in the room didn't throw something over them to deaden the sound.

Haven't seen Magnetic Monster lately. Liked it when I did.

I guess my favorite of those mentioned in this thread is Riders To The Stars, the 1950's version of The Right Stuff. For a kid in those days, wading through the "mush" was par for the course until we got to the good stuff in space. Never forgot Richard Carlson coming unglued when he saw that corpse float past his window.
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[Krel]

In addition to the suits made for "Destination Moon", the studio also created 7 or 8 lower grade suits and gear for publicity purposes. I don't know if the Hero suits were rented out to other productions, but the publicity suits were.

Considering that the A&C suits and helmets showed up in other productions, and appear to be the same color, they may very well be copies of the DM suit design. Note only the suits look like the DM ones and were of one color, the helmets and backpacks are different. DM set the standard for what space suits are suppose to look like, and Hollywood tends to copy designs that were popular in other productions. Even currently, how many spaceship and installation designs still look like they could be in "Alien"?

David.

[Bud Brewster]

[orzel-w]

Greetings. This will be my first post upon re-emerging at All Sci-Fi after a hiatus of a couple (or a few) years. Since I'm working on an orthographic drawing, this time of the Gog robot(s), I figured this would be as good a thread as any.

I'm still working on the drawing, so for now I'll just add a few more publicity photos to the one Bud already posted. All of these turned up in an image search of the internet.






It's been taking some time to complete the drawing due to the intense detail of all the froo-froo on the robots and trying to find good images to work from. I have the Blu-ray edition of the movie, but my computer has only a DVD drive. I've ordered an external BD drive for my PC so I can capture decent images, so we'll see how it goes.

To give everybody something to do in the meantime, has anybody spotted the difference between the Gog and Magog robots?
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[Gord Green]

Welcome back to the best bunch of sci-fi freeks on the web!

You will have a lot of catching up to do...but heck...that's a lot of fun anyway ! We've all missed your contributions !
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[orzel-w]

Thanks, Gord. It's good to be back in finer company.
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