Gog (1954)

So I've been wrestling with Blogger like it was Hal from 2001 but I think I now have control back with out having to pull out it's memory chips....although it came close, I can tell you!

So on with the show. And finally some words to go with the pictures...

A security agent investigating possible sabotage at a secret underground research facility discovers that a chain of murders has occurred, apparently engineered via the supercomputer NOVAC which coordinates base operations and its robot minions, GOG and MAGOG.

I've never had the pleasure of this 1954 movie but have given it a quick viewing this evening online and its looks pretty good.

Obviously those spacesuits are familiar to regular followers as Destination Moon spacesuits with helmets from Cat-Women on the Moon, or some yet to be pinned down earlier film,

 

 Steve

 

The Rocket Man (1954)

The Rocket Man is a 1954 comedy film, directed by Oscar Rudolph, and produced by Leonard Goldstein. The script was co-written by Lenny Bruce and Jack Henley from a story by George W. George and George F. Slavin. The film is a comedy with science-fiction elements.  The by-line that accompanied the film read; "Out-of-this-world laughter and down-to-earth charm when the face from space turns out to be ... the kid next door!"  And there you have it, except....

Do you think that this helmet look familiar?  Below is a scene from The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)  What do you think?

Steve

Tintin Explorers on the Moon (1954)

Steve

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954)

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger is an American television serial originally broadcast in syndication from February to November 1954.

The show was based on the exploits of clean-cut, square-jawed Rocky Jones, the best known of the Space Rangers. These were Earth-based space policemen who patrolled the United Worlds of the Solar System in the not-too-distant future.

 

 

Steve

View-Master Tom Corbett Space Cadet (1954)

This 1954 View-Master reel (x3) present a science fiction character that was popular in the early 1950s on radio and TV. The figurines and diorama used in these images were created by Florence Thomas as credited in the accompanying booklet.

We had a view-master in our house when I was a kid although we never had this set of discs.  View-Master was a way of seeing pictures in 3D that I'm sure would singularly fail to impress today's youth.  I on the other hand remain haunted by certain images, diversely Tarzen and The Adventures of Rupert the Bear.  That's two separate discs by the way, not the unlikeliest team up ever.

 

 

Steve

Alex Schomburg Gallery 1

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Steve

Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus (1954) and covers gallery

Richard Powers (1954)

 

Bob Pepper (1972)

 

David K. Mattingly (19??)

 

Cover in detail

 

Gog (1954)

Gog is a 1954 film directed by Herbert L. Strock. It is notable for having been shot in colour, widescreen and 3-D. It is the third episode in Ivan Tors' Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) trilogy, following The Magnetic Monster and Riders to the Stars, the later of which we've already looked at.

Here are some familiar spacesuits we've seen before in quite a number of other genre films.

 

 

Steve

Riders to the Stars (1954)

 

Three went up.  One blew up.  One went mad.  One managed to get the meteor, get back to Earth and get himself some sugar.

 

Steve

 

Science Fiction Quarterly - August (1954)

I know nothing about this but it sure do look pretty.  Now that's a very cool looking spacesuit design right there and we really should track down the artist.  Anyone?

Steve

Amazing Stories - Novemeber (1954)

Vol 28, No 5 of Amazing Stories from 1954 with a rather fantastic composition by William Rembach of whom I know nothing but of whom I have just become a fan.

Steve