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countdown, "Frau im Mond", and "Destination Moon"
As part of another rabbithole I went down this morning, I downloaded Fritz Lang's 1929 movie, "Frau im Mond" (The Woman in the Moon) in high resolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFGATob5w5c
Why?
I learned (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ncLbpNbTk) that it was the first time anybody thought of preceding a rocket launch with a countdown. That was a surprise to me. I'd previously thought that was an innovation by Robert Heinlein in his script for George Pal's movie "Destination Moon". I don't have the movie and couldn't find it online, but the comicbook adapted from the movie is at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/fawcett_Destination_Moon_1950
(Get the comicbook cbr format, not the low resolution, almost unreadable pdf)
Also at the InternetArchive is the half-hour long radioplay of Heinlein's story:
http://archive.org/download/Dimension-X/Dimx_e012_DestinationMoon.mp3
I already have the story (which Heinlein adapted from his screenplay), but that was ages ago and I can't remember the source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFGATob5w5c
Why?
I learned (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ncLbpNbTk) that it was the first time anybody thought of preceding a rocket launch with a countdown. That was a surprise to me. I'd previously thought that was an innovation by Robert Heinlein in his script for George Pal's movie "Destination Moon". I don't have the movie and couldn't find it online, but the comicbook adapted from the movie is at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/fawcett_Destination_Moon_1950
(Get the comicbook cbr format, not the low resolution, almost unreadable pdf)
Also at the InternetArchive is the half-hour long radioplay of Heinlein's story:
http://archive.org/download/Dimension-X/Dimx_e012_DestinationMoon.mp3
I already have the story (which Heinlein adapted from his screenplay), but that was ages ago and I can't remember the source.