You know how it is browsing YouTube, with one video leading to another. Watching this one, which requires knowing who Harry Truman was, I realized that not only do I know who that talented little girl is, I met her a few years ago and we had a couple of very nice chats.
(Note that I have posted this in my Sci-Fi category.)
Sam Wanamaker, portrayed by Nicholas Hammond in Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood, provides an explanation of what’s really going on with the pandemic… and, if you believe him, what we can do about it.
I’ve talked about Byron Haskin here before. Haskin had quite the varied and interesting career in Hollywood. He is perhaps best known for directing The War of the Worlds in 1953, which is one of my favorite movies.
Here I am with Ann Robinson last November. Ann is a delight to meet with and chat, and I couldn’t resist buying that model of the Martian war machine.
Haskin had a knack for coming up with quick and economical special effects. He had worked with director Frank Capra on Arsenic and Old Lace, and it’s my suspicion that he produced the outer space effect at the opening to It’s a Wonderful Life. I say that because the footage was recycled by Haskin in S1:E29 of The Outer Limits.
You don’t need to know much about Star Wars to enjoy this.
“The machines are everywhere! And they will demoralize you, break your spirits, create such rifts and tensions in your society that no one will be able to repair them!”
Click here for a collection of behind-the-scenes photos of the 1960’s space program in England.
