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#MonsterdonAlert

Sunday, April 20 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)

IT'S #MONSTERDON

we will be watching

First Men in the Moon (1964)

"Jeffries), a brilliant British scientist, creates his own spacecraft and takes a trip to the moon, accompanied by explorers Arnold Bedford (Edward Judd) and Kate Callender (Martha Hyer). After landing, they encounter an insect-like alien race that lives under the moon's surface, which has an air-like atmosphere. After glimpsing the extraterrestrial society, the group must soon escape back to Earth."

youtu.be/0zxAiUQu0v8

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in reply to 4 8 15 16 23 42

Based on the H.G.Wells book, of course.

But I didn't realize until just now, that this is not the first film adaptation.

(Don't be fooled, Le Voyage dans la Lune(1901) is an unauthorized rip-off of the Jules Verne novel with a similar plot, not the Wells book.)

The first film adaptation was from 1919. Sadly the film is now lost and no known copies survive. Which is a shame, but this production still looks amazing :

in reply to Andy L.

Even in 1919 people complained that the special effects were low-budget?

Oh, man. This movie must have been amazing.

If anyone's got a copy sitting around in their attic or something, please hand it over to a film preservation society. I really want to watch this lost film.

in reply to 4 8 15 16 23 42

What? The original book had illustrations? My copy doesn't!

This is amazing. I hope this scene is in the #monsterdon film.

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