The Lebanese Rocket Society

My interest in this film has very little to do with the fact that as a boy I read the book 'By Rocket into Planetary Space' written in 1929 by the rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth, Transsylvania. Or with the fact that I studied as a minor subject astronomy. But I bring with me some interest in the history and culture of the Middle East, which seems to be one prerequisite to like this work. Alike the Oberth effect which can be used in 'a maneuver in which a spacecraft falls into a gravitational well and then uses its engines to further accelerate as it is falling, thereby achieving additional speed'.

While the first two thirds are purely commented documentary, the film gains immensely in traction towards the end when phantasy overtakes in the form of a retrofuturistic anymated cartoon. A lot to be regreted. Not to have followed this story.