OldFutures

Dedicated to Classic Science Fiction. What's this all about? First of all, for those of you who don't know it, there actually was science fiction before Star Wars. There was a time when Spacemen had rayguns, and they could blast around the solar system in their rocketships in minutes or hours. In our imaginations Venus might be a jungle world, and Jupiter and Saturn had solid surfaces. It was all about the excitement and adventure that we could dream up about that far off future when man lived in space. This site is dedicated to that early era of science fiction. OldFutures.com

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Stalker, a mysterious masterpiece from Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. One of the most incredible film experiences I’ve ever had.

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One of my favorite books to listen to, by the great Robert Heinlein. Rocketship Galileo.  A fun adventure yarn of the early atomic age!!

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For anyone interested, here is a feature film that I made, which I just recently put up free to watch on YouTube. It is a very slow strange story of a young woman trying to deal with the pain and isolation of  her daily struggles with depression and social anxiety.   This is more of an arthouse film than a traditional movie, and it takes its time exploring Madelline's life, dreams, and subconscious mind.

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My first feature film is up on YouTube to watch now.

Madelline (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftKJE7n2xQ

The slow strange story of a young woman trying to deal with the pain and isolation of  her daily struggles with depression and social anxiety.   This is more of an arthouse film than a traditional movie, and it takes its time exploring Madelline's life, dreams, and subconscious mind.

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listen to a radio adaptation of “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell.  The novella this was based off of was adapted into “The Thing From Another World” (1951) by Howard Hawks, and “The Thing” (1982) by John Carpenter.

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listen to the scifi novel “Invaders from the Infinite” by classic scifi author John W. Campbell.

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watch the trailer for “Chelsey Bonestell: A Brush With the Future”, a documentary about one of the greatest space artists of all time. He worked on films such as Destination Moon, War of the Worlds, Cat-Women of the Moon, Conquest of Space, and the fantastic TV series Men Into Space. He did designs for the Chrysler Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, worked on Citizen Kane, the Magnificent Ambersons, and influenced the entire generation of engineers and astronauts that took us to the moon.

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watch the full Space:1999 episode: “Ring Around the Moon“, which first aired on this day (Feb 20) in 1976.

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watch Burgess Meredith in the full Tales of Tomorrow episode: “The Great Silence“, which first aired on this day (Feb 20) in 1953.

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On This Day

February 20

1976 • Space:1999 - Episode: Ring Around the Moon

1971 • Doctor Who - Episode: The Mind of Evil Part 4

1968 • The Invaders - Episode: The Vise

1966 • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Episode: The Death Ship

1966 • My Favorite Martian - Episode: When a Martian Makes His Violin Cry

1965 • Doctor Who - Episode: The Zarbi

1954 • Space Patrol - Episode: The Plot in the Atomic Plant

1954 • Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers - Episode: The Fishman of the Venusian Sea

1953 • Tales of Tomorrow - Episode: The Great Silence

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watch the trailer for “The Magnetic Monster“, which premiered on this day (Feb 18) in 1953.

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On This Day

February 18

1974 • The Tomorrow People - Episode: The Blue and the Green Part 3

1969 • Out of the Unknown - Episode: The Naked Sun

1968 • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Episode: Man-Beast

1967 • Doctor Who - Episode: The Moonbase Part 2

1955 • Flash Gordon - Episode: The Rains of Death

1953 • The Magnetic Monster

1952 • Captain Video and His Video Rangers - Episode: In the Clutches of the Klaw

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On This Day

February 17

1973 • Doctor Who - Episode: Carnival of Monsters Part 4

1971 • UFO - Episode: Timelash

1968 • Doctor Who - Episode: The Web of Fear Part 3

1967 • The Time Tunnel - Episode: Pirates of Deadman's Island

1965 • My Living Doll - Episode: Rhoda Meets Dr. Robinson

1964 • The Outer Limits - Episode: The Children of Spider County

1960 • Men Into Space - Episode: Moon Cloud

1959 • The Cosmic Man

1956 • Science Fiction Theatre - Episode: The Other Side of the Moon

1951 • Space Patrol - Episode: Cosmic Debris Warning

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watch the movie “Tobor the Great” from 1954.

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Battle Beyond the Sun is the English-dubbed, re-edited U.S. version of Nebo Zovyot, a 1959 Soviet science fiction film directed by Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr. It tells of the "space race" of two future nations competing to become the first to land a spacecraft on the planet Mars.

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1959

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On This Day

February 14

1976 • Doctor Who - Episode: The Seeds of Doom Part 3

1970 • Doctor Who - The Silurians Part 3

1969 • Star Trek - Episode: Requiem for Methuselah

1968 • Lost in Space - Episode: Space Beauty

1967 • The Invaders - Episode: Vikor

1965 • My Favorite Martian - Episode: A Martian Fiddles Around

1964 • Twilight Zone - Episode: From Agnes - with Love

1963 • Twilight Zone - Episode: Jess-Belle

1963 • The Day Mars Invaded Earth

1962 • Planets Around Us

1953 • Space Patrol - Episode: Trip to Deimos