Movie — Journey 3: From The Earth To The Moon

Post-Civil War America. The War is over, but the arms race has just begun. Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotten), the head of the Baltimore Gun Club, is bored. He has invented every deadly weapon known to man, and peacetime is bad for business.

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If you need your sci-fi fast and loud, skip this. But if you want to see the moment humanity fell in love with the idea of going to the moon—before we knew how to do it—this is essential. journey 3: from the earth to the moon movie

This is pre-NASA. This is pre-Sputnik panic (just barely). This is a film made when we assumed space travel would be an extension of artillery science. The aesthetic is Victorian-industrial. Rivets. Steam. Gunpowder. Post-Civil War America

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