Moon Rockets

June. 06,1947

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This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showing moon rockets, weighing 30 tons, a flight in the ionosphere, with mounted color cameras recording pictures hundreds of miles above the earth. Coming back to earth, it discourses on modern bathroom fixtures, and then demonstrates a one-man hay-bailer.

Gayne Whitman as Narrator

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Reviews

Kidskycom

1947/06/06

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

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Fairaher

1947/06/07

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Doomtomylo

1947/06/08

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

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Donald Seymour

1947/06/09

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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