how do i get to burry?
you go six feet under badumtiss
#Monsterdon

"At the best, it could be an atmospheric disturbance, or a tidal wave or something."

"And at the worst?"

"Your mom."

#monsterdon

You'd think they could have given a better name to a planet that's causing all these hurricanes and UFO sightings

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

(Lands in seaplane)
(Sees that villagers are building a wicker man)

#Monsterdon

This guy cannot be a real scientist, not a oscilloscope in sight!

#monsterdon

So, Planet X is another name for Hercobulus
#monsterdon

How does he know strange waves are bouncing off the earth? Where's the detector?

#Monsterdon

Lol, pretty sure Bury is landlocked. It's in the hills

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX "how do i get to matte painting?"

The island is of course a plot device in order to save money on sets.

#monsterdon

Meanwhile, in Stock Footage land.

#monsterdon #manfromplanetx

that sure is an attempt at a realistic matte painting

#monsterdon

I never took photography class, but I think smoking in a dark room is a bad idea. I seem to remember other art kids in college specifically talking about not doing that.
#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#Monsterdon Girl, don't hold him to promises he made when drunk.

"cold fingers run down my spine"

#monsterdon

"What is it?"
"Early 50's CGI."
"Ah."

#Monsterdon

"...it sort of makes cold fingers run down my spine."
"Oh, that was just me when the light was out."

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

"C'mon, gents, this planet won't slam into ours on its own! Let's go."

#monsterdon

Planet X is rushing towards Earth - passing perilously close in three weeks. Tidal waves, etc. expected.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

I also think I started a minute earlier than everyone. Sorry. I'll try and get on target. #Monsterdon

Looks like he arrived at his prediction with finger math #monsterdon

The backdrops are AMAZING!!!

#Monsterdon

"The planet is hurtling towards Earth"

"well, we've had stuff like this happen before, haven't we?"

buddy #monsterdon

who is out there driving a whole planet around man just build a ship #monsterdon

that's right, we got 1950s SWAMP GAS

#monsterdon

"Where does this Planet X fit in?" Between Planet W and Planet Y.

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

I've heard yoga instructors with more exciting line deliveries than these two

#monsterdon

Planet X does not work like that. Also, hm, torino 9?

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Were there several seconds with zero visibility? Like, a black screen while the old guy talked?!
#Monsterdon

No worries, just a glancing blow...with a planet. #Monsterdon

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"Coming from someplace outside like the moon or mars or what have you?"

feel like you could sample a ton of this dialogue out of context #monsterdon

I just didn't get to this scene yet. I'm satisfied now.
#monsterdon

I'm with you, #Monsterdon. Started a bit late, so I'll be reacting late like the last person to get the joke.

This will be the root post.

Her stage driving is crazy. #Monsterdon

no wait

how do you sign a cablegram?

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh, god, is the color version of that painted curtain backdrop as bad as I think it is?

Oh. I forgot about #Monsterdon
Going to be a little behind.

I'm glad he washed that film. Can't have grody film on the lighttable. #monsterdon

A Cablegram, even!

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Dude bragging about his credentials and accomplishments, only to break a pencil and almost cry about it 😬

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

"Give me one ping only."

#monsterdon

this colorized version from archive.org does glow in a lot of colors!
#monsterdon
#themanfromplanetx

Cablegram was their texting technology #monsterdon

"evidence"??? "statement"??? wat kind of journalists are these???

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX everybody's facing away from the camera all the time in this movie

Strange astronomical phenomena, check

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Surely yourre not telling me a scientist of your stature thinks a shrimp fried this rice.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Once again I'm late to announcing the impending flood of my #monsterdon toots. Please mute me or the hashtag if this offends.

Tonight I'll be tooting along to The Man from Planet X (all caps). It looks like a perfect 50's piece of SciFi cheese.

Let us begin, shall we?

Two extra points for that mustache!

#monsterdon

The colour in the colourized version is a bit weird!
#Monsterdon

We have smoking! A pipe, no less!

And we have voices in the dark(room).

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

why is that man so spiffed up to look at stars?
#Monsterdon

is this movie gonna need a Surely counter?

#monsterdon

Is that a gun? o_O #monsterdon

he was hiding his face to hide that mustache

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Huzzah! I'm gonna be catching up from the back side... just sat down. Hello everyone! My sweet Monsterdon family. :)

We now join the plot of Flash Gordon, already in progress.

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX1951

I've seen better backdrops in community theater. #Monsterdon

@hollie Going to mooch over here tonight if I post, Hi Hollie!

#Monsterdon

Interesting choices with the cinematography #Monsterdon

the observatory needs that gyroscope or the whole dang thing'll flip over

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"The world is now experiencing strange astronomical phenomena"

But enough about 3I/ATLAS...

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

#monsterdon enjoyed the Frankencredits, all bolted together and stuff

1951, when they still didn't realize you needed a framing story to tell your story.

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX1951

Exposed rivets is the hallmark of low budget craftsmanship #Monsterdon

ah, starting with the party already knowing each other, good good

#monsterdon

Planet X? I wonder if there's a man from there...
#Monsterdon

Okay, so the opening was a voiceover of a framestory that faded to a voiceover of the narrative, which shifted to some telescope talk. Bold choices. #monsterdon

title drop less than 3 minutes in. screenwriters take note #monsterdon

Planet X? - you gotta step your planet naming game, old guy #monsterdon

#Monsterdon "Photographic effects by Jack Glass" great nominal determinism right in the opening credits. #TheManFromPlanetX

i think you want to put observatories like not in a misty hazy lowland area #monsterdon

They are saving budget by going into a darkroom and turning the lights off...
Oh the colorizing is strobing. That's gonna get annoying.
#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

So the fate of humanity is in the hands of a Journalist?

…

Are we doomed?

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

So far the most exciting thing is that pencil breaking.

#Monsterdon

A time of big wide suits and pipes!

#Monsterdon

Wow, heavy font. Even heavier voiceover narrative #Monsterdon

HE CAME FROM PLA-NET X

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

so there was a beach, and I blinked, and then suddenly we're in a frozen hellscape with a man monologuing aaaand I'm not sure how we... oh, he slammed his pencil. Quite the frustration. #monsterdon

Nice jacket newspaper man
#monsterdon

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OK but is this man we're seeing also the narrator because I think that's the idea?

don't worry folks, this is a _trained_ reporter.

don't worry about what they're trained in.

#monsterdon

Oh, just the strangest stranger a newspaper man has run into? That's not as bad then.

#monsterdon

I think it must be artificially colorized. There's a weird glowing.

#monsterdon

Stronger start here than we get from the science lessons most of these movies give us.

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

From the California coast to a miniature that looks like the aftermath of the Color out of Space ... and a dry voiceover!

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Issues affecting all mankind? Should we women be concerned at all?

#Monsterdon

is there a salt monster around here someplace? i'm smelling a salt monster around here someplace

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

wouldn't catch my ass putting my lab out there in all that haunted bullshit #monsterdon

Don't they know these films are supposed to take place in pubs? #Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

Don't see a lot of clipboard usage anymore.

#monsterdon

Scientists were so dapper.

#Monsterdon

They loved voiceovers in the 1950s #monsterdon

plot twist: this movie's villain is ICE

#monsterdon

Don't go out into the moors!!!! #MONSTERDON

@bunnyhero HAHA, me too!

#Monsterdon

Is that a telescope or a tiny heat exchanger?

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX1951

It begins!

"The Man From Planet X" (1951) is a short one tonight: you'll only need a ~75 minute timed mute. Or you can join in!

#monsterdon

"I gotta do something about this echo in my head."

#monsterdon