Here's a fun short little film that teaches you about the basics of rocket propulsion.
Which at the same time happens to contain a small but enjoyable amount has science fiction.
Pacifically the ''World of Tomorrow!!" Where we will be, once we could reach out to the Stars.
Sadly for the people making the movie and for the rest of us, the collective interests of humanity decided to move away from space travel.
Or at the very least the government bodies controlling most countries moved away from space travel and decided that this technology would be far more useful in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Which I'm not going to disagree with completely.
If you don't keep yourself secure your enemy will take advantage of you. Or you're get to the point where you realize that if you stockpile thousands and thousands of warheads it won't matter what the defenses you or the enemy creates, because you will overrun them with mass amounts of atomic energy.
Then you realise just how sad the space race is as it evolved into the atomic bomb race. Which was kind of happening before the Space Race but what are you going to do about it.
If it wasn't for the atomic bombs we wouldn't even have the Space Race to begin with.
The Soviets only had so many good Rockets because they wanted to put in nukes and bombs on the ends of them.
Few of their High politicians care about launching those things into the stratosphere for scientific purposes.
But I'm getting off on a tangent.
The movie itself doesn't focus on anything to do with atomic bombs. Its first half is giving us information on the discoveries and theories of Professor Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. One of the potential fathers of rocket technology.
While the other half of the movie looks at the wonderful achievements man will be able to create once we get our Rockets into space and start creating giant orbiting space stations to monitor the weather, broadcast television, create platforms for rocket ships to go to the moon and even create unique a greenhouse environments.
There's a whole whack of things that people were really expecting us to do when we eventually made our ways into the heavens.
Peppered throughout the film is literal diagrams of how the rockets work, what exactly gravity is and unique steps people have to take in order to make a rocket pierce the atmosphere at just the right angle as to create a vessel that can escape the gravitational pull of the earth.
It's all fairly interesting and it's very beginner science. It's all stuff I wasn't heavily aware of so I was happy to learn it.
The fun of the movie comes and seeing what they were able to predict in such a short amount of time. They wanted to show images of what space travel would look like when we were flying around and ships.
And we get to see Zero Gravity environment and how humans will be able to deal with pressure. All stuff that we hadn't done yet as the film came out several years before the first man went into space.
We even get to see the living quarters of one of our cosmonaut. As she showing off her unique build television set and of course Her Space Cat!
Which was the whole reason that I watch this film begin with. at the time I had no idea what this film was.
I was expecting this corny little cheese fest science fiction flick involving a bunch of people flying around in the back in space inside of a silly looking rocket may be dealing with aliens or some sort of internal drama. You know the typical types of space crap that all the 1950s and 60s like to produce. I wasn't expecting a slightly educational video on the history of Rocket technology and how it would affect our modern lives.
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