History of Sci-Fi Film- 1937- Robots and Ray Guns Episode 17

I am 70 ish and I absolutely love your series, I find myself looking forward every week for the next installment , can't wait till you review the 1950s

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1937 for me will always be the year that American passenger trains entered the streamlined age, with EMD's famous diesel-electric locomotives and the Santa Fe Super Chief first class train. If I had the chance to go back to a time before I was born and experience just one thing, it would most likely be to ride the Super Chief before it's absorption into Amtrak in 1971. Rail travel in the 1930s might not have been as mass market as air travel would become in the 1950s & 60s, but it was still top notch and high-tech for its time, and the gleaming lines and curves of streamliners was just gorgeous.

When there is a lull, there is soon an abundance. Another absolute cracking video in this series, many thanks!😀😀👍👍

I will always watch these videos, they're quite a resource for anyone interested in history, let alone films. The research that you do is obvious in the quality of the information that you include. I haven't got that sort of patience. As for 37 being light on regular science fiction, it's not a big deal. People needed to escape from the tensions of the world and musicals and light hearted romcoms were much easier for the average person to appreciate. Picasso is a hero of mine because of the painting.

Thanks for providing the links to these films. When I saw the Donald Duck short, I wanted to see the whole thing! Love it! (I knew I had to see the whole film!)

The quality of the research, production and presentation is top notch! Can't wait to see your channel start to get skyrocketing viewership numbers (it will happen!) that it deserves! Thanks for another great video, see you in 1938, Terry.

A weak harvest this year, the episode is, however, impeccable (as always). Great stuff!

I was so happy to see another episode show up on my feed. It was sad to hear the disappointment in your voice about this year's movie fare. Hopefully, 1938 will be better.

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This is another terrific video, thanks so much. The biggest non-war tragedies were I think the 20th Century Fox vault fire, and Amelia Earhart's disappearance, but the war action in Spain and China were terrible. Looking forward to the next instalment.

COMPLETLY DISAGREE re NON-STOP NEW YORK! This is a wonderfully charming movie full of great characters, Hitchcock type situations and humor, and a sweet personal story as well. PLUS that futuristic plane and the exterior balcony for sightseeing over the ocean! Kind of a modernized version of Robur's Albatross from the Verne novels and the movie MASTER OF THE WORLD, this last-mentioned item directed by William Whitney! This movie cries out for a full restoration. An early film by the very accomplished director Robert Stevehson (later directed a number of highly successful films, including MARY POPPINS). Yep, certainly thought you missed the boat on this one! (or, better, the flying boat!) But thanks for the video anyway. I know it takes a lot of work to make these videos. Thumbs up (as always, and good wishes!) (Watch NON-STOP a couple more times and see if the crazy characters/character actors don't wind up really growing on you! ;-)

That flying hotel reminds me of the nuclear powered double-decker double-length articulated transcontinental bus in the comedy disaster movie The Big Bus.

A mixed year to be sure. But with the greats of the sci-fi literature genre starting and what is to come in the world, I am sure those living at the time looked on it more favourably.

OK, I've got to watch that Octopus movie now

Thanks!

awesome episode. i love the whole series!

A truly fascinating series that clearly takes effort. Part of me wonders what lead to the copycat movies and in the case of Sky Racket. Is writers shipping around ideas to multiple studios, lazy copycat writing when they think a formula works.

There was another animated cartoon from this year that featured a science fiction theme- "Little Buck Cheezer”, produced by Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising as part of their Happy Harmonies series released by MGM. In this cartoon, mice, inspired by a Buck Rogers Sunday page, build a rocket ship and fly to the moon to discover if it’s really made of green cheese. Science fiction themes weren’t that uncommon in Depression Era animated cartoons- Just as another example, from 1933, Columbia Pictures released the Scrappy cartoon “Technoracket.” Inspired by the then contemporary Technocracy political movement, Scrappy replaces all the animals on his farm with robots... Which he doesn’t have to pay wages to... An early example of automation replacing workers.The robots are controlled by a master panel that looks like a telephone operator’s switchboard. Scrappy’s little brother, who was also fired along with the animals, , sabotages the master control. The robots run amuck, the control panel explodes, Scrappy’s farm is wrecked, and the animals get their jobs back. I think that both afore mentioned cartoons are worth making belated comments on. Both are up on YouTube.