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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Space-Men (1957)
(aka, Assignment: Outer Space)

This is an Italian-made sci-fi by Antonio Margheriti, who was a very prolific filmmaker. He was able to produce a lot of low-budget films very quickly, including this one which was his first film. I think most of the voice actors (who dubbed the English version) were actually pretty good in this film given the material. And there was a ton of special effects in this one, too.

This film seems to have a lot more science fact errors in it then the typical 50s science fiction film. I’ve put a few in this unauthorized trailer –- convert hydrogen into oxygen to make air; going to Globular Cluster M12 in a chemical rocket, rocket engines at “full RPM”; and of course lots of sounds in space. At one point they are at Mars and they get a call from HQ saying, “Hey, while your out there, stop by Venus, too.” (paraphrased)

I think the title of this film, “Space-Men” comes from a line in the movie about a woman who is on the spaceship (I’ve included it in the trailer). The English-dubbed version of the film that was released in the US had the title, “Assignment: Outer Space”.

For a low budget film, they really put a lot of effort into the props and special effects and sets. Actually, some of the sets are pretty well designed and the special effects were not bad for a low-budget 50s sci-fi. (It was actually shot in 1960, but it’s basically a 50s sci-fi.)

If you've never seen an Italian sci-fi this one’s a classic.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #50s #Italy #rocket #blastoff #M12 #solarsystem #RPM #neohydrozine #dubbed

Accessible video description:
Old faded color film; A guy in a control tower talking about a space mission to the Globular Cluster M12, then a rocket blasts off with the movie’s opening title, Assignment: Outer Space and shows the surface of a planet and it shows the rocket again and it shows a guy in zero-g trying to maneuver and it shows some people in space near a space ship and then it shows the guy in a spacesuit floating through the void of space and a hose being hooked up to the back of a rocket that is floating in space then a guy playing around with a bunch of oscilloscopes and other guys floating around through space and a fiery meteor, not a meteorite, goes buzzing by; then some guy in a cockpit says he doesn't know what's going on; then another guy wants to commit suicide by jumping off of the spaceship and he jumps out and it shows a fake dummy falling down to the surface of Mars as the guy screams when he’s falling in space; and some other guys talk about going down to get the guy and they go down and pick him up and he's still alive for some reason; and then back to the guy who is in zero-g pretending to be floating around he's actually walking on the ground but he's moving very slowly and acting like he's floating but it actually looks pretty real considering; then the guy and some other people are standing around talking about some destructive thing; then there's a rocket that's trying to land at “full RPMs” (closed captioning says “four RPMs”) and the rocket lands but it tips over a little bit, 9 degrees and it sounds like a tree falling; then a man and a woman are talking about going 90,000 mph; then a guy's talking about the next solar system revolution; then a woman in a cockpit wearing a helmet says that they're very close now; then a man is talking to a woman who's in some sort of laboratory with plants that are turning hydrogen into oxygen; then a guy in a spaceship is talking about the Earth turning into boiling mud; then several astronauts in a cockpit and a guy’s talking about 16 gammas when he meant to say 16 G's; then there's an atomic spaceship with chemical exhaust coming out the back of it; then a bad actor talking about crashing into a Mars satellite; then a guy in a cockpit with a woman, the guys says nobody knows what they're talking about; then a man walks into a room and it shows him looking at a person's legs under a table but you can’t see the person and the person walks out and turns out that it's a woman astronaut, which apparently is shocking in 1950s; then a man is coming out of a suspended hibernation tank in a spaceship, cut to an o-scope and cut back to the guy standing up very slowly out of his hibernation tank; then it shows a rocket separating from its first stage and then the second stage separating from it and the surface of some planet; then a guy in a spacesuit is floating through space very slowly with fake stars in the background and all of the stars are blinking dim and bright synchronously; fade to black.

Pourquoi les cyclistes brûlent-ils les feux rouges ? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emCG_EnvhPA

#vélo #m12

Vous qui dégradez les triangles cyclistes au feu #m12, je vous ai compris !

Voici le fameux panneau #M12 dont je vous ai parlé @emeline @unefamilleavelo

CHERBOURG-EN-COTENTIN : Alors que les panneaux #M12 permettent depuis plusieurs années de s’affranchir des feux rouges à vélo dans certaines situations, on voit encore bien trop souvent ces panneaux 🛑 STOP inadaptés, imposés aux cyclistes sur leur lancée… Alors qu’une simple règle de priorité suffirait
▶️ Généralisation du #M12 mécanique ! 😄 #SolutionVélo 🚲 #Cherbourg #Manche #Cotentin https://twitter.com/Velo_Cherbourg/status/1632624424988860421

CHERBOURG-EN-COTENTIN : Alors que les panneaux #M12 permettent depuis plusieurs années de s’affranchir des feux rouges à vélo dans certaines situations, on voit encore bien trop souvent ces panneaux 🛑 STOP inadaptés, imposés aux cyclistes sur leur lancée… Alors qu’une simple règle de priorité suffirait
▶️ Généralisation du #M12 mécanique ! 😄 #SolutionVélo 🚲 #Cherbourg #Manche #Cotentin https://twitter.com/Velo_Cherbourg/status/1632624424988860421

BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE : Déjà déployés en France depuis plus de 10 ans, les panneaux #M12 permettant aux cyclistes de passer au rouge viennent tout juste de faire leur apparition à #Marseille... @velosenville en avait déjà installé quelques uns en bois pour tenter de faire accélérer leur installation 😄 #SolutionVélo https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/13-heures/marseille-les-cyclistes-pourront-passer-au-feu-rouge_5647313.html#xtor=CS2-765-[twitter]- via @franceinfo

Tiens je remets ça pour les gens qui croient que les #cyclistes grillent systématiquement les feux rouges : OUI il y a des cyclistes (plein) qui grillent les feux rouges. Mais il y a aussi des cyclistes (plein) qui respectent le code de la route et qui grillent les feux rouges parce que c'est parfois autorisé.
#Velo #Velotaf #m12 #FeuxRouges

RT @framboise314@twitter.com

Tout savoir sur les nouvelles caméra @Raspberry_Pi@twitter.com 12Mpx, autofocus, HDR et #CaméraHQ avec monture #M12 - Article en français 🇫🇷
https://www.framboise314.fr/de-nouvelles-cameras-12-megapixels-autofocus-hdr-pour-le-raspberry-pi/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/framboise314/status/1612432082910826500

Tout savoir sur les nouvelles caméra @RaspberryPi_org 12Mpx, autofocus, HDR et #CaméraHQ avec monture #M12 - Article en français 🇫🇷
https://www.framboise314.fr/de-nouvelles-cameras-12-megapixels-autofocus-hdr-pour-le-raspberry-pi/

M12

Magnitude 6.7 globular cluster located 16,440 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.

#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m12 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon

M12

Magnitude 6.7 globular cluster located 16,400 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 who described it as a "nebula without stars".

#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m12 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon

RT @Velotaffeuse
Aujourd'hui j'ai appris à un monsieur l'existence du sas vélo et du panneau M12 ! Le tout avec un ton très cordial et sympa (ce n'est pas ironique) 😄 #positif #sasvélo #M12
J'en retire 2 enseignements : ⤵️

RT @VelotafGP@twitter.com

Connaissez vous les panneaux m12 ? #m12 #velotaf #poitiers @Grand_Poitiers@twitter.com @RoutePlusSure@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/VelotafGP/status/1487868352588570627

RT @florian_bonet@twitter.com

On me pose souvent cette❓au sujet des #M12 : peut-on passer à vélo en même temps qu'un véhicule ayant le feu 🟢 sur les 2 trajectoires ci-dessous ?
Par prudence et parce qu'une bande cyclable n'est pas dessinée à l'intérieur d'un carrefour, je réponds toujours non. Et vous ? 👮

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/florian_bonet/status/1380428582078582784