Although a machine endowed with superhuman strength and futuristic weaponry, he often displayed human characteristics, such as laughter, sadness, and mockery, as well as singing and playing the guitar. With his major role often being to protect the youngest member of the crew, the Robot’s catchphrases were “That does not compute” and “Danger, Will Robinson!”, accompanied by flailing his arms.
The Northrop YB-49 was an American prototype jet-powered heavy bomber developed by Northrop Corporation shortly after World War II for service with the United States Air Force.[1] The YB-49 featured a flying wing design and was a turbojet-powered development of the earlier, piston-engined Northrop XB-35 and YB-35. The two YB-49s built were both converted YB-35 test aircraft.
The Astra-Gnome is a concept car by industrial designer Richard Arbib using a 1955 Nash Metropolitan chassis. It was described as a “Time and Space Car”. It features themes influenced by the space travel forms that were popular during the 1950s. The vehicle represented Arbib’s vision of what an automobile would look like in the year 2000.
Rocketship X-M (also known as Expedition Moon and originally Rocketship Expedition Moon) is a 1950 American black-and-white science-fiction film from Lippert Pictures, the first outer-space adventure of the post-World War II era. The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and stars Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O’Brian and Morris Ankrum.
In American science fiction of the 1950s and ‘60s, psionics was a proposed discipline that applied principles of engineering (especially electronics) to the study (and employment) of paranormal or psychic phenomena, such as extrasensory perception, telepathy and psychokinesis. The term is a blend word of psi (in the sense of “psychic phenomena") and the -onics from electronics.
The Oldsmobile 88 (marketed from 1989 on as the Eighty Eight) is a full-size car that was produced by the Oldsmobile Division of GM from 1949 until 1999.
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was the first to have them all. It was Turing-complete and able to solve “a large class of numerical problems” through reprogramming.
The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It originally aired in prime time from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, on ABC, then later aired in reruns via syndication, with new episodes produced from 1985 to 1987. It was Hanna-Barbera’s Space Age counterpart to The Flintstones.
Full issue is here: https://archive.org/details/fantastic-adventures-v-06n-01-1944-02-missing-ifc-3-slpn/Fantastic%20Adventures%20v01n02%20%281939-07%29%20%28cape1736%29/
The Atomium is a landmark modernist building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed as the centrepiece of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and the architects André and Jean Polak as a tribute to scientific progress, as well as to symbolise Belgian engineering skills at the time. It is the city's most popular tourist attraction, and serves as a museum, an art centre and a cultural destination.
In keeping with my previous research and developments in Retrofuturism, I have discovered a new genre, Raygun Gothic, and a subgenre, Raypunk. I am instantly enthralled by the mixture of vintage imagery with sci-fi, and as such, I really want to explore this further.
Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 is a print from the late-19th century depicting a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the opera. Many types of aircraft are shown including flying buses, limousines and, what are presumably, police vehicles.
A 40-ft-tall rocket ship glimmers in the sunlight on the rare occasion that the San Francisco fog allows it, and against the backdrop of the waterfront and the majestic Bay Bridge, this retro-futuristic icon is the jewel of Pier 14.
The Chevrolet Corvette (C2) is the second-generation Corvette sports car, produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors (GM) for the 1963 through 1967 model years.
Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the Eagle comic series Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in reprints), and dramatised seven times a week on Radio Luxembourg (1951–1956).
The Schlörwagen (nicknamed "Göttingen Egg" or "Pillbug") was a prototype aerodynamic rear-engine passenger vehicle developed by Karl Schlör (1911–1997) and presented to the public at the 1939 Berlin Auto Show. It never went into production, and the sole prototype has not survived.
The Theme Building is a structure at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), considered an architectural example of the Space Age design style. Influenced by "Populuxe" architecture, it is an example of the Mid-century modern design movement, later to become known as "Googie". In 1993, the city designated the exterior and interior of the Theme Building as a historic-cultural monument.
Monsterdon is a weekly event on the fediverse, hosted by @Taweret@timeloop.cafe, where people watch a monster movie together by posting to the #monsterdon Hashtag.
Collier's is famous for their extensive "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" series printed from 1952-54, but this is from another article of theirs on a similar topic printed several years before.
I should probably be berated admitting this in c/RaygunGothic, but somehow I had never seen Forbidden Planet... until last night. (On PeerTube. Thanks, Fediverse, for finally making it happen!)
Post Sputnik in 1957, Goodyear pushed an integrated set of rocket, spaceship, and space station designs, and continued to do so through the early 1960s until it became clear that NASA was going ahead with their own approach.
Battle in Outer Space (宇宙大戦争, Uchū Daisensō, lit. 'The Great Space War') is a 1959 Japanese science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
Flash Gordon is a 1936 superhero serial film. Presented in 13 chapters, it is the first screen adventure for Flash Gordon, the comic-strip character created by Alex Raymond in 1934. It presents the story of Gordon's visit to the planet Mongo and his encounters with the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless. Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson and Frank Shannon portray the film's central characters. In 1996, Flash Gordon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
I was going to post stills from the movie, but the whole thing is full of Raygun Gothic, so just jump over and watch it to see for yourselves. To the audience in 1936, this must have been amazing!
Made by the Daisy Mfg. Company, this 1940 Superman themed toy gun also serves as a film projector. 16mm filmstrips could be woven through the metal gun and projected onto exterior surfaces via an internal lamp. Children would view the filmstrip one image at a time. There are 7 "Superman Adventure Stories" included.
In this day of wondrous science, we have jet planes that exceed the speed of fleet sound itself! We have rockets that pierce the sky for hundreds of miles! We have atomic energy at our fingertips, a giant of power! But what is in store for mankind tomorrow?
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