The Life archive on Google (search for any topic or photograph by typing source:life after your search term) has a huge collection of photographs from Destination Moon, the 1950 movie co-written by Robert Heinlein.
I've never read Heinlein, but anyone who writes dystopian novels for juveniles is all right by me.
Here are some more photos from the set:
The actors in the background are midgets to make the set seem bigger!
2 comments:
Heinlein was my best friend when I was young. I read everything that he had ever written. Farnham's Freehold, Methuselah''s Children, Revolt in 2100, Podkayne on Mars, and so on. Of course I read Stranger in a Strange Land, when I was strange in a strange time. Eventually I realized that Heinlein had obviously never had a sexual relationship in his life, unless it was with one of his Millions of Cats. His attempts at describing a romantic interlude in his works were as torturous to read as it was to watch words emerge from the mouth of George Bush, as if they had just been pilloried, racked, burned at the stake and iron-maidened.
Also thanks and a tip o' the hat to Emma as always. Looking forward to her triumphant return> She truly iconicises (word?) The Woman and the Whale.
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