Destination Moon (Sci-Fi, 1950) John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers | Movie, Subtitles

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UP UP UP Seven miles a second! The first manned trip to the moon, happening in the (then) near future, and being funded by a consortium of private backers. Assorted difficulties occur and must be overcome in-flight.

00:00:00 Full length movie – Title credits
00:01:47 Rocket launch
00:07:58 Fantasies of the moon
00:11:59 Woody woodpecker explains space travel
00:18:17 Space race is on
00:22:59 Public opinion & safety
00:32:08 Trip to the moon
00:39:04 Zero gravity space sickness
00:47:30 Outer space
00:54:17 Rescue mission
00:57:04 Landing on the moon
01:02:24 Welcome to the moon
01:16:50 Preparing for the return to Earth

Director: Irving Pichel
Writers: Alford Van Ronkel, Robert A. Heinlein, James O’Hanlon
Stars: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Budget: US$ 592,000

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41 Replies to “Destination Moon (Sci-Fi, 1950) John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers | Movie, Subtitles”

  1. Sivad, Monster of Ceremonies out of WHBQ Memphis used this as his intro music for years, so I see him every time I hear it. But I always enjoy the movie.

  6. La plus belle scène est l'image de la terre apparaissant dans le hublot. Personne n'avait jamais vu la terre depuis l'espace et pourtant on a l'impression qu'il s'agit d'une vraie photo.

  7. 1:17:00 This does not ring true: ground control would tell the crew exactly what to strip; they wouldn't say, "you've got to work it out". (Learned this from Apollo 13.) But I forgive them, so much of this is exactly what we would expect 75 years later – in our age, when all this space environment stuff – gravity well, zero gravity, moon gravity, vacuum of space, resources and extreme environment, airlock, even the role and organization of "ground control" – all this is second nature to us .

  8. Awesome, awesome. Watershed movie. Set the standard for hard science fiction – all business, technical difficulties, realism. Like a graphic novel laying out how to put a man on the moon. I wonder if this was the inspiration behind Kennedy's inspiration to land a man on the moon. (A little boring, because no early sci-fi crutches – no monsters, no women who are always doctor or navigator, and whose purpose seems to be to get groped or saved or prepare food).

  10. 12:45 (+/-) ❤❤ the magazines as portrayed in this wicked cartoon, look identical to the rocket that takes our four heroes to the Moon. However, the cartoon was created to entice this group of investors to sponsor the development of a rocket that most likely hadn't been designed at that point(?).

    Interesting wormhole? Hmmmmm ????

  11. For a 1950 movie the earth looked so realistic. They didn’t know what our planet looked like from space until over a decade later. When I worked at Johnson Space Center I was an engineer, designer and suit subject. I knew a lot of technicians who worked in the suit lab in building 7 at JSC. After moon landings and return to earth the suits were sent to the suit lab and techs refurbished them. Part of the process was vacuuming the suits. Because moon dust stuck to the suit so well technicians were able to vacuum dozens of vials of dust. I was good friends with an old timer named George. I went over to his place and he said he wanted to show me something in his garage. He had a dozen 5 inch test tubes full of moon dust. Even though NASA heavily guarded moon rocks they never thought about the large quantity of dust that would be collected on suits. I always regretted not asking George for a test tube full of moon dust. He would’ve given me one.

  18. Saw this aired in a planetarium in the Washington DC area, introduced by Robert Heinlein's widow and accompanied with speeches from RAHs former associates. Unlikely ever to repeat that thrill.

  24. The propaganda was so thick back then you could'nt cut it with a knife. "Yeah but the government footed the bill…" he says. LOL.. No, it was actually the taxpayer/war bonds. Propaganda from the same old public private military industrial complex partnership, of business in bed with government with the international banks in between, that created all socialist, communist, and fascist societies of the world.

  26. Great movie … I was very impressed this being a 1950s scI- fi movie. It seemed quite plausible to me than others films about space travel at this time. That cartoon convinced me! Lolol. Special effects were really good. And filmed in color was a nice change from the very many black and white films made at the time.

  31. Just Elon Musk's space X they have problems with red tape. Nice touch with the trivia with the frozen antenna grease, such problems were mentioned in a scientific pod I saw recently.

  33. The radio guy, Joe, was 180lbs of useless weight. He didnt want to go, didnt even know the basics of rockets, spaceflight, gravity etc…its obvious he didnt watch the woody woodpecker cartoon before launch. That kind of ignorance could get the whole crew killed. I get it, hes a standin for the audience but what made them think some knucklehead from brooklyn made a good representative of an "oith" audience?

  35. I wonder if a V2 rocket could indeed have been made larger like this one & be used to land on & take off from the moon, instead of creating apollo & the lunar lander. The spaceship looks similar to the one in "It, the Terror from Beyond Space", & the Starduster in the "Space Angel" cartoon

  38. Great film. Ahead of its time. When I first saw this movie, I thought it was made in the late '50s. But then I thought "Forbidden Planet" was made only a few years before Star Trek. Not a decade earlier. Probably inspired Elon Musk too but he did it for real where von Braun started.

  39. why did films in the 40's and 50's give characters from Brooklyn such a ridiculous accent ??? example … Foyst = First LOVE the space suits ! The producer insisted that they make full use of the " Technicolor " costs . as he insisted that black & white was just fine ! These guys show zero training … it pretty funny More like a high school science teacher and 3 of his drinking buddies go on a grand adventure into space !! i enjoyed how the guy attempted suicide by untethering himself ( no questions asked either ) They did however understand a few basic principles of science

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