Monday 7 September 2015

Planeta Bur (1962) Gallery 3








 



I don't really need a reason to have another look at these fantastic spacesuits except to say that when you look closely you will notice - as did I once it  had been pointed out to me - that there is a slight variation in suit design.

Look to the chest lamps; see how one is round and to the side where as the other is rectangular and central.  Fabric varies too but don't take my world for it - view the gallery

Thanks to John Nowak.

Steve
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  1. Tim Armstrong8 September 2015 at 04:07

    I`ve just remembered another one you dont have,its Supernova from 2000,I`d forgotten about it myself until I came across this on ebay,from the looks of it its our old friend the GSh-6a
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/JAMES-SPADER-2000-Supernova-MGM-production-used-Deep-Space-HERO-Space-Suit-/161811576817?hash=item25acb8b7f1

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  2. John Nowak8 September 2015 at 14:19

    Note that the character with the rectangular spotlight also carries a different sidearm. You can see that in the other gallery.

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    1. Steve9 September 2015 at 16:11

      The whole suit seems subtly different.

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    2. John Nowak9 September 2015 at 16:38

      I suspect that the character (Kern) was intended to be American.

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    3. John Nowak28 March 2020 at 12:17

      I just rewatched this and noticed a few other things:
      1) Kern speaks a few words of English in his first scene.
      2) Per Wikipedia, his name is "Allan Kern". Not a very Russian name.
      3) Kern's suit is a slightly different, greenish color.
      4) Iron John has the characters "J-I" (or J-1) on his chest. "J" is not in the Russian alphabet.

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  3. John Nowak16 September 2015 at 11:58

    There is also the curious case of Tobor, title character in Tobor the Great (1954) and Robot John in Platea Bur (1962).

    Both are rigid electromechanical robot costumes, as were common in SF films of the day. Both are painted to look like they are made of some white metal, probably aluminium, but both films have a very similar shot where a character working on the robot opens hatches on either side and is viewed through the robot, immediately followed by the doors being closed and the robot going into action. It's a nice bit of film trickery, probably designed to make the viewers think they saw the robots move when there was no way they could contain a person.

    It would be interesting to know if there was inspiration involved, or if the shot was an obvious set up taken from a magician's trick.

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    1. Steve16 September 2015 at 15:08

      Interesting thoughts. I think you're right in that the shot establishes that there couldn't possibly be an actor inside.

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  4. Tim Armstrong20 June 2023 at 03:52

    One of the things about this movie thats a bit unusual is the mix of weapons that we see the astronauts/cosmonauts using in the film,one of them is a russian [as one would expect] makarov pistol,one of them is rather bizarrely a c-93 borchardt,made in germany waaay back in 1893[!] and considered to be the first commercially successful semi-auto pistol,also the direct ancestor of the luger.
    Theres also a colt 45 and even a browning hi-power.
    Rather odd choice of weapons,both for an expedition to venus and for a soviet sf movie,but then solaris had a brief cameo of an austro-hungarian steyr 1912 pistol,which I thought was a bit odd at the time.
    https://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/a/ac/PlanetaBur-C93.jpg/600px-PlanetaBur-C93.jpg

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