well i guess that was a false impression given we always have to spend half an hour setting the scene first in these movies

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He better be careful with that ticker tape, he's gonna fling that rug straight off his bald pate. #Monsterdon

Alfred Hitchcock cameo!

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@diazona I think it's the copy, unless this 1964 movie anticipated the invention of the USB protocol.... #Monsterdon

Smoke em if ya got em. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

Did they say the American is from Iowa? Sure doesn't sound like it #Monsterdon

of course the British colonized the entirety of the solar system first #Monsterdon

Oh I see. We started the movie with a bait and switch equivalent of in medias res. Now we are going to spend half an hour on earth tracking down some very very old English people.
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Catherine Calendar? What?

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this archivist better be in every scene moving forward #monsterdon

jumping in late and half-assed on mobile on the subway lol #monsterdon

Okay so I'd like to point out that this spaceship is staffed like a clown car. There's like 42 astronauts in this moon lander. Okay, maybe more like 6, but still a very high number of astronauts.

Anyway, they are all white men, because the 60s.

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The deadly vacuum of space is hardly a barrier to Victorian British colonialism #Monsterdon

“Dr. Tok, Dr. Tik Tok.”

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British Val Kilmer here....#monsterdon

Hurry, to the chocolatiere!

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UN Space Agency Investigation Team!

@Taweret Yeah, I'm digging it! #monsterdon

It really sounds like everyone is just being ordered to get rice, all the time

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The moon's surface is covered with microplastics now

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Those goddamn brits! Got there first!
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#Monsterdon everywhere you go, the fucking brits invaded first

"touched by the finger of fate"

$10 says he gets touched by something worse before the movie ends

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Well, *somebody* finally thought about how quickly a piece of paper might deteriorate when taken from hard vacuum to a shirtsleeve environment.

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*obnoxious drum fill* LONDON #monsterdon #killjamesbond

#monsterdon Not a bad lander for 64.

i don't trust the guy actually named Rice, he is very clearly a british guy undercover, listen to his god damn accent #monsterdon

"Bryce to Mothership, we got some weird shit goin' on down here." #Monsterdon

"Well I didn't put it there!" Said exactly like someone who put it there. #Monsterdon #firstmeninthemoon

Dimchurch... of course England has a down named DIM CHURCH. Perfectly normal name for the English.
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I'm sure that scrap of fabric is just a natural phenomenon #monsterdon

this american astronaut is trying really hard to not let his brittish accent slip through
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Finding a different Earth nation's flag on the supposed first landing on the moon is a great story prompt

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So Cavorite was real?

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Catherine Camembert? So many cheeses has this moon!

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the British are coming! the British are coming! #Monsterdon

I am from Boston and I totally knew Katherine Callender of Cherry Cottage.

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Hahhahaha! The Brits got there first
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"We better get it on the scanner back to earth"

"Good thing we brought our Epson with us! #branding

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I love how the astronaut is carrying a bag that looks like the first tote bag I ever sewed in my 9th grade home ec class

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@Lazarou lol

Maybe only in the Internet Archive version? Unless this is what passes for a soundtrack in this movie... who can tell, honestly

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Oh no... 96 bags of poop, you say?

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Jokes on them, that's only a quarter of the Aussie flag.

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Oh, snap! It’s the same movie reveal as the British version! (Surprise, we got here first!)

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I bet George Mallory was there first. #Monsterdon #FirstMenintheMoon

He had to check, he forgot what England's flag looks like >_> #Monsterdon

Weslydale?
Cammermbert?
I don't know about this cheese...
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Did you hear that? Rule Britannia. It’s almost like a leitmotif #Monsterdon

blimey #monsterdon

Martin! Stewart! Look! A Union Jack! Tescos has already been here!

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@jonny If they can't make it into the moon in the next hour and a half... well, honestly, it would not be an unprecedented letdown

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#Monsterdon "so we're here now. what do you wanna do?"

"i dunno, maybe look at some rocks"

hahahahahahahahaha the reveal ahldkfjdskfjl 🇬🇧

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The UN had to re-use an old Purina grain silo for that rocket, I see.

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Huh, I take it back, it's actually better than a Star Trek set. Nice :D #Monsterdon

Awwwkward. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

Honestly, this is so much better than I was expecting, visually XD

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@wohali first acrobats in the moon! hope we get some low gravity juggling next

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let's go on a moon walkabout

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"this'll be a good spot for a McDonald's!" #monsterdon

Nope. No Catherine Callandar... But we do have a baker named Marie...

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I hope the finger of fate never touches me

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@brooke THIS. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING AND WHY #monsterdon #FirstMenInTheMoon1964

(seeing stock footage)
More...More...MORE

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Tiptoe, through the tulips... #monsterdon

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it's great this was imagined as an international mission

Fingered by fate. #Monsterdon

The most dignified way the American Capitalist system to imagine for a person to step on the moon.

"What about a ladder?"

What are you, a communist!?

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this montage isn't the only thing that's crossfaded #monsterdon

one small swing for mankind...wheeeee! (swings back and forth on the trapeze)

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@floatybirb your threads are my favorites 💚 #Monsterdon

I guess he's the robot? #monsterdon sounds robot-y.

"Decontaminate"

<chamber fills with fire>

"WRONG BUTTON, TURN IT OFF, TURN IT OFF"

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"Sir, there is a parade on the moon..."

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"touched by the finger of fate" #monsterdon

@plaidtron3000

Lack of consistency can be deadly in space!

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whiplash from the fireworks back to the silence of space

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@brooke OMG yes! I thought mastodon changed a sound or I left a discord channel open. But I paused the movie as it was doing it and it stopped. WHat is that blink blonk door closing noise about movie?
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his crotch zipper is a) cracking me up because i am 13 years old, and also b) the most practical spacesuit design i think we've seen all #monsterdon .

That's a ... ummm ... very strategically placed zipper.

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This is looking pretty high budget! I'm shocked! And unsettled.

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one small trapeze for a man
one giant trapeze for mankind

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"Let's have a look at the environment telemetry."
Yeah, that's a thing someone would say.

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@brooke I checked mine reflexively #monsterdon

Correction, he's apparently Czech, which is why he's named, uh, Nevsky. #Monsterdon

@amyfou It's the cheese

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woah he dropped all the way to new york city!

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@Violinknitter
I guess it means they use a landing craft rather than just landing the whole rocket! #monsterdon

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holy jesus extreme patriotism jumpscare
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oh no he stepped on a stock footage mine #monsterdon

That was a very cute clapping kid who has no idea why they’re clapping #Monsterdon

HANGER WHY I HARDLY

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"Decontaminate" hmmm.. that seems like it might be important. #Monsterdon #TheFirstMenInTheMoon

Also, discovered that Pluto has a version of this film, but it’s British. The intro is more cool though—it starts in 1969 when Apollo astronauts were landing on the moon.

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I guess they didn't have budget for a ladder.

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Being lowered to the moon's surface on a wire hangar is pretty awesome

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