Today on Far Future Horizons we are going to be treated to a flashback of some classic 1950's Hollywood hoopla as City At Night, a talk/variety show that was produced live on location by pioneering, Los Angeles television station KTLA visits the set of producer George Pal's classic Sci-Fi movie-in-the-making, Destination Moon.
KTLA-TV was launched
in 1947 by Paramount Pictures and was guided
by technical innovator and video visionary Klaus Landsberg. His efforts brought
everything from an atomic blast in the Nevada
desert to the Rose Parade to astonished and appreciative television viewers in Southern California .
This particular
episode of City at Night is a sort of "making of" documentary for Destination Moon, the movie science
fiction author Robert Heinlein wrote and served as technical adviser for. Heinlein himself appears five minute after the start of the program. Also appearing is the acclaimed space artist Chesley Bonestell and producer George Pal.
So without further
adieu we present City at Night, on the set of Destination Moon.
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