Berroca - Set Your Lasers To Stun TV Advert (2014)

Caught this TV advert this evening.  Wonderful stuff.  Brief but very amusing.  Can't speak for the product but there's a lot of love for 50's and 60's Sci-fi crammed into just a few short seconds.

Steve

Something for the Weekend 1

Publicity picture of Jane Fonda from Barbarella (1968)
Nice!

Steve

Planeta Bur (1962)

Planeta Bur is the name of the original Russian film from 1962 that was then edited and dubbed in 1965 to become; Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet for the American market  ... and then again in 1968 to become; Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Woman.

Up until a couple of weeks ago I was unaware of any of this until I stumbled across some clips on the Internet and was blown away by what I saw.   I’ve since seen the third version of this film and storywise it really is a terrible piece of old tosh but the original Russian visuals remain captivating.

The space suits are a stunningly stylish design, realising an aesthetic normally reserved for illustrations. In company with a hefty metal robot, a floaty space-car and some flesh-hungry Venusian wildlife, it looks like a fare amount of love and money went into making the original feature.

It makes you wonder what else was going on behind the Iron Curtain.

Steve

Barbarella (1968)

The film of the French comic... The most psychedelic piece of 60’s sci-fi ever made...  Jane Fonda endlessly loosing/changing her clothes... The sexiest wardrobe of any leading lady.

 

But unfortunately we’re only going to be looking at this one; The Spacesuit.

It isn’t the best in the film but it does come off easily...

...in the first few minutes of the film if I remember correctly but this is as far as we're going here.

Go buy the DVD

Steve

Doctor Who and the Moonbase (1967)

This is Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor, on the moon in the year 2070.  He’s about to have his first rematch with the Cybermen within the titular moobase but before that can happen he has to get there from the TARDIS.

The design of his outfit here owes far more to the 1950’s idea of what a space suit was going to look like rather than anything that was actually being used by NASA at that time.  My guess is that the choice of a retro design over anything more realistic is most probably a budgetary one. 

We’ll be back to the worlds of Doctor Who again and again as successive Doctors don their spacesuits in predominantly cash strapped futures.

Steve