Raygun Gothic

Via a tumblr blog I can't find rn

THE FUTURE of distracion-free reading!

Monsterdon is a weekly event on the fediverse, hosted by @Taweret@timeloop.cafe, where people watch a monster movie together by posting to the #monsterdon Hashtag.

More info

• https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

And this Sunday (Western Hemisphere, e.g. 8PM CT) (or Monday 1am UTC), the movie will be Forbidden Planet(1956)

• https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/114541252576223737

By coincidence, I only recently watched it for the first time

• https://lemmy.ca/post/43468504

Where to watch the film

• https://peertube.wtf/w/ehQReF6uWnXNmCLZwsEhV3 (where I watched it)
• https://archive.org/details/ForbiddenPlanet1956_201707
• https://youtu.be/HYjbn8f4PEY
• https://tubitv.com/search/forbidden%20planet (in some countries, not all)
• https://miru.miyaku.media/ (a linear stream synchronized for all viewers, go there near start time and find Forbidden Planet. It didn't work for me the last time I tried it, got an error like "Media in an unsupported format or server down", so have a backup plan.) More
• More possible sources, adjust for your location: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/forbidden-planet

I think you can go along with the live blogging via Lemmy if posts include the hashtag #monsterdon, but probably better to use Mastodon.

1958 - A little late maybe for Raygun retro, but I still dig it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_501

Full archive: https://archive.org/details/wonderstoriesv04n10193303.stellar

Cover of Hugo Gernsback's Science and Mechanics magazine

Check out the futuristic stop light.

Collier's is famous for their extensive "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" series printed from 1952-54, but this is from another article of theirs on a similar topic printed several years before.

I should probably be berated admitting this in c/RaygunGothic, but somehow I had never seen Forbidden Planet... until last night. (On PeerTube. Thanks, Fediverse, for finally making it happen!)

I'd kept meaning to see it year after year, decade after decade, without it ever happening. I even went to the namesake shop a few times back in the 80s and 90s.

• https://peertube.wtf/w/ehQReF6uWnXNmCLZwsEhV3
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet

I thought it would be cheesy, but it actually maintained a great atmosphere of suspense, thanks not only to the interesting story and wonderful cast, but also to the still spooky fully-electronic score.

• "Leslie Nielsen all serious... and with hair that's not white!!!"
• "So this is where it all began: we are all part of the Robby the Robot Cinematic Universe."
• "That's Honey West!" (I.e. Anne Francis, dare I say it, the US Honor Blackman.)

[Looking things up on Wikipedia today]

• "Holy Moly, Earl Holliman (Cookie) was still with us until a few months ago!"
• "Banned in Spain?? Oh right, this was 1956, not 1966. Miniskirts were truly shocking then."

Found some high quality images of posters, lobby cards etc here:

• https://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Summaries/F/Forbidden%20Planet.htm

Overall, a great film. Two robot thumbs up! Or five out of five ray guns. Whatever the top score here is ;)

Post Sputnik in 1957, Goodyear pushed an integrated set of rocket, spaceship, and space station designs, and continued to do so through the early 1960s until it became clear that NASA was going ahead with their own approach.

This image was printed in Missiles & Rockets magazine's March 1960 issue, so slightly outside our group timeframe. But the design itself is a bit earlier; this picture would have been by Goodyear themselves, sometime in 1958 or '59.

A bit of history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Frederick_Morrison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Novels

Only $2.50

I like the uranium power chamber the most, I think.

Ad from 1950s comic.

"Don't be disappointed. Send now!"

IBM magazine ad from the 1950s with obligatory atomic art.

Magazine ad from the 1950s

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Science_(comics)

Found on Boingboing:

https://boingboing.net/2012/05/13/mothers-day-ad-support-the.html

... and with goodwill.

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still

From the 50s, I think

Image source unknown

Part of the Tit-Bits Science Fiction Library

From Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/modern_fred/