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larryfoster · Space Ranger Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 104

Plot from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_World

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:34 pm Post subject:

It's an odd movie. The explorers find a giant cavern, but there some reason why it's not healthy to live there. Don't remember what it was.

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larryfoster · Space Ranger Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 104

I think the reason they could not live there, must have been radiation. They had rabbits to test the living conditions. They found the rabbits became sterile, and could not reproduce. That sounds like radiation exposure to me. Ironic, that surface radiation (from atomic war) was what they were hoping to find safety from.

Your cavern image is nice. I wish the movie had been in color. I hope there are such undiscovered caverns in the Earth. I think it is possible. Hopefully they will not be high with radiation, as in this movie.

But Bud... what do you think of my idea of making the Cyclotram a submarine also. I saw elsewhere, you posted that you like submarines?
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:39 am Post subject:

larryfoster · Space Ranger Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 104

The Cyclotram looks fairly 'streamlined' to me - especially compared to other 'rock-tunneling' vehicles. Its expandable/collapsible blades gives it a pointed front end. And its Jet exhausts are even arranged in tail-fins.

I'll bet Captain Nemo would like some Cyclotram features on his Nautilus submarine. The rock-drill would allow him to create his undersea entrance tunnel to his volcanic island. And if the Nautilus had Caterpillar tracks... he could drive it onto dry land for easy external ship maintenance. Wink

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Tired of waiting on NASA to adopt Flying Saucer technology! Sick of human political-representative government! I want 1970: COLOSSUS (The Forbin Project) A.I. - as World Control government! Providing flying saucer tech, "For the betterment of man."

Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:01 pm Post subject:

Another great review from Jimbo Berkey's wonderful site, Free Classic Movies — this one for Unknown World, along with the link to watch it or download it!

UPDATE: Jimbo Berkey website is no longer active. Sad

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It is 1951 - The big war is over, the world is at peace, but fears of this new Atomic Age prey on the minds of people all over the world.

Today where I live every Saturday at noon I can hear a loud siren that blares for more than a minute. It is the city's way of warning in case of a violent storm or tornado. Back in the post war years, as a very young boy, I remember every Wednesday evening at 9pm in Meadville, Pennsylvania I would hear a similar siren.

But it was not to test a warning system for violent storms; it was to test the system that would warn us if war or nuclear attack was imminent. I remember thinking, "I know that this is just a test, but what if those evil Russians picked Wednesday night at 9pm to REALLY attack, and in a few minutes I would be vaporized by an atomic bomb?"

Well, I'm still here, and we've never had an atomic war, but the fears of a young boy still remain in the corners of my mind.

This sci-fi movie opens with the picture of an atomic blast, and a description of the world on the edge of destruction because of this new powerful destructive force. A team of noted scientists have concluded that the only salvation for mankind is to drill to the center of the earth and create a new living space deep below the destructive force of the Atomic Bomb.

But isn't the center of the earth molten?

Of course not, one scientist explains. The center of the earth is a bit cooler than the surface, and full of caves and open spots that could be turned into new underground cities.

Cool!

Things were so much simpler in the 1950's. And this was the period when pharmaceutical drug companies were creating 'pills' that could cure anything, so I wasn't surprised when I saw that meals for this journey to the center of the earth consisted of pills. How modern!

Make your white kernel popcorn, put plenty of butter on it, and enjoy a peek at what folk in 1951 thought was cutting edge science adventure as they tunnel to the center of the earth, and encounter all kinds of crises and adversary.

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