"Ship of Monsters" stock footage ID

Cafe Society
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Recently I was watching the 1961 Mexican sci-fi masterpiece :rolleyes: La Nave de los Monstruos (Ship of Monsters) and right near the beginning there was some sci-fi stock footage I didn’t recognize.

The footage seems to involve the building of a space station; it features spacesuits with corrugated arms and legs and is very nicely done.

I’ve seen all the usual 1950s sci-fi films and didn’t recognize it; maybe some of you experts could take a look at my screencaps and let me know where it came from.

First screencap: Overall view of a space construction project site. The man at right slowly cartwheels into view.

Second screencap: Two men in spacesuits are moving two sections of structure together:

Third screencap: A spacesuited man is seated at what appears to be a telescope:

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I’m stuck, but intrigued - the helmet design looks similar to the suits in Destination Moon, but clearly, that’s not this film.

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Was there any such construction footage in Project Moonbase?

I’m struggling to recall anything from that cinematic masterpiece.

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I do believe I found it…1957’s Road to the Stars, or Дорога к звёздам in the original Russian.

I thought it might be a Soviet sci-fi film.

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What made you think this was footage from another film in the first place?

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Oh, yes! You are exactly right. That is lovely, lovely footage! And in color, no less.

Now I’ve got to get a copy.

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Complete mismatch of style, and the fact that a Mexican studio making a humorous sci-fi spoof wouldn’t have the kind of budget needed for expensive weightlessness effects.

Although Ship of Monsters does have a couple very nice sets, including a knockout spaceship interior.

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Shades of “2001”. The floors of the space station (in the Russian footage) curve upward just as they should years before Kubrick’s.

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Rocketeer, you have some really badass models.

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Thanks! My completion rate is very low, but I have fun. :smiley:

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What’s the Celestial Traveller from?

I noticed the 2001 Orion shuttle. I have a resin model of it somewhere, that is about a foot long. I’ve never built a resin model. I have stacks and boxes of models that have been waiting decades to be built. No time to build them, and no place to display them.

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I don’t think the Celestial Traveller is from a movie; I believe that it’s an original design. My photobucket album “Edwardian Aerial Housecar” has some pictures of my progress so far; like most of my stuff, my build deviates pretty far from the original.

That Orion is an Aurora kit, one of my favorite models. I also have, somewhere in my massive pile of unbuilt kits, a big resin kit of a cargo-plane version of the Orion, about a third completed (I’m wiring it for lights, which tends to take a lot of forethought, one of my weak points :wink: ).

Resin kits are a little different from conventional styrene kits; they tend to require a bit more cleanup (to remove casting flaws) and you have to use superglue or epoxy to hold them together. But they’re perhaps a bit easier to modify, being solid blocks instead of hollow shells.