Description: THIS SCIENCE FICTION FILM. WAS THE FIRST MAJOR TECHNICOLOR MOTION PICTURE PRODUCED IN THE U.S. DEALING WITH A TRIP TO THE MOON. IT LIFTED SCIENCE FICTION FROM COMIC BOOKS INTO THE WORLD OF THE BELIEVABLE. CO-SCRIPTED BY ROBERT A. HEINLEIN FROM HIS NOVEL "ROCKETSHIP GALILEO." DESTINATION MOON'S SUSPENSEFUL AND SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE PLOT DEPICTS MAN'S FIRST VOYAGE AND LANDING ON THE MOON, AND THE DANGERS OF OUTER SPACE TRAVEL. THIS FILM EARNED AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR SPECIAL EFFECTS AND MARKED LEGENDARY GEORGE PAL'S FIRST ASSOCIATION WITH SCIENCE FICTION FILMS. LATER ON, PAL WOULD PRODUCE SOME OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST POPULAR SCIENCE FICTION SUCH AS WHEN WORLD'S COLLIDE, WAR OF THE WORLDS AND TIME MACHINE. BREATHTAKINGLY PHOTOGRAPHED IN TECHNICOLOR WITH ASTRONOMICAL ARTWORK BY FAMED CHELSLEY STONSTELL AND A CAPTIVATING MUSICAL SCORE BY SAM STEVENS, DESTINATION MOON REMAINS A SCIENCE FICTION MILESTONE AND A GENUINE CLASSIC OF THE GENRE.
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