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Galaxy of Terror (1981) prop screenshots

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coppercone2:
when it was in space for 200 years and it needs fixing with what you got in the trunk of your space van...

I never under stood the hate on micro computers in space. they are heavy sure but are you gonna be flying around with a 10nm fab in your trunk and deal with MCU problems when life support system is failing?

I think electronics will look different once its cheap to get things in space and things start getting far away and abandoned for long periods of time. right now its about weight

I already see things get crippled by a single SMD resistor if the soldering people are not there and someone needs something to work right now.

Like realistically your gonna be 'driving' in space for 3-6 months dealing with MRE constipation and get to some clapped out garbage built by people who died 50 years ago to a 12% oxygen environment stuck at 2 degrees celcius with flickering lights with a wire wrap gun and a few spools of wire...

WillTurner:
i completely understand the nostalgic element of drooling over vintage electronics in old science fiction movies. Dave himself has reveled in the replica DeLorian time travel display from "Back to the Future". Personally, I drool over the relay clicking and simple light sequencing from "Logan's Run". More than once I've thought about putting that display on a PCB.
  If you delve further back into antiquity, may I suggest "Blake's 7" where it looks like they bought a container-load of scrap computer PCB's, and re-purposed them as cheap props. UK TV production of that era was really frugal. Going further back in Hollywood time it was war-surplus with the addition of some flashing lights.
  Finally, may I suggest "Forbidden Planet" which looks like a futuristic extension of a 1940's US naval war movie. It is available as a "free" 500MB download https://archive.org/download/ForbiddenPlanet1956_201707/Forbidden%20Planet%20%281956%29.mp4.
Edit: fix damn URL   

Gyro:
Forbidden Planet probably gets the prize for prop technology re-use lifetime - Robbie the robot got re-used on Gremlins, The Big Bang Theory, and, I think, a many others.


Edit: 1956 - 2017, many appearances...  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot

Calambres:
Forbidden Planet was not a B-movie. It was indeed a full tilt super production of that era!

TimFox:
An interview with one of the composers of the soundtrack for Forbidden Planet:
https://www.effectrode.com/knowledge-base/the-first-electronic-filmscore-forbidden-planet-a-conversation-with-bebe-barron/

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