Killers from space, 1954
The last third or so of the film is edited (with a lot of temp video) so now I have a better idea of how where we stand. Some of the difficulties in making the dining room sequence come from the way it was written. It covers too long an expanse of time too quickly with too much spatial ambiguity. So I'm rewriting that now.
Saw Dan yesterday. Went through the current edit. He had lots of good ideas as usual. We mostly discussed transitions and structure. His six year old daughter was deconstructing the visual effects in Episode II. She had decided that Yoda was computer generated because the sense of weight and gravity in his big fight scene looked too artificial. Good analysis. I told her that maybe Yoda was using the force. She just ignored me in one of those "adults are so stupid" kind of ways.
Ben told me that an electrician came to his house the other day. "What's going on down there?" he asked after seeing the red room. "Looks like a psycho killer's room." Ben and Erik told him it was for a film but apparently he didn't seem convinced.
Been looking at more public domain video to find something that can be playing on TV near the dining room sequence. I was looking into Via Voice or ilisten. It would be great to run a soundtrack through a program and get a text transcript. But neither program has a demo. My notes...
Killers from space (1954)
> stars a young, pre-white haired Peter Graves!
> early tale of alien abduction
> cutout airplane composite
> scary floating eyes
> great fingerprint matching scene
> ping pong eyed alien hot dog barbecue!
> alien speaking alien language on alien TV
> incredible alien viewing screen with flying saucers, city of the future and space stations!
> burning cockroach
Phantom from space (1953)
>Nice LONG billowing clouds and lighting in b/w
The Brain Machine (1977)
>All sorts of weird meandering God talk by crazed priest
>Big IBM 360 with tape drives & teletype machines
>Awful abstract wallpaper
>Weird ramblings about technology, science, truth, faith
>nonsensical dialogue: "They'll have to kill me before I die!"
>[while holding a dead body] "You answered one question for science. Here's your truth. Did you learn something!?"
>simulation of overpopulation by using a computer to mathematically decrease room size.
Phantom planet (1961)
>Great POV opening sequence of spaceflight
>Great space model effects
>Spaceship executes hairpin turn
>Nicely lit spaceship interiors and sets
>Astronaut drifts away in space while reciting the Lord's Prayer
>Everything on the instrument panel is labeled
>Phantom asteroid populated by a pageant full of beauty queens!
>Really nice planetary liftoff sequence
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