Man Conquers Space

POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Thursday, June 14, 2007 23:49
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CLJOHNSTON108

Thursday, May 3, 2007 1:00 PM

Here's something amazing I've been keeping my eye on for quite a while (it's not finished yet)...

http://manconquersspace.com/

It's a "documentary from an alternate universe" where we followed the path laid out by Wernher von Braun & Chesley Bonestell in that classic Collier's magazine article from the 50s!

http://www.bonestell.org/colliers.html
http://home.flash.net/~aajiv/bd/colliers.html

Been in progress for about 5 years and, being pretty much a one-man operation, was almost lost when the guy suffered a hard drive crash a coupla years back!

Be sure to check out the Movie Clips (especially the Teaser and Sample Cinema Sequence!)...
http://manconquersspace.com/MCSMovieClips.html

You can download a sample of the soundtrack here...
http://www.mp3.com.au/track.asp?id=32880

Some articles about it...

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=10038
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/18/0341229&mode=nested&tid=16
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http://mike.whybark.com/archives/000534.html

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CLJOHNSTON108

Monday, May 7, 2007 1:40 AM

'Tis a shame nobody's interested in this.

Kinda like tryin' to get my stepmom to watch Firefly!

SWEETSERENDIPITY

Monday, May 7, 2007 3:04 AM

Shiny! I love those 50s illustrations!

Deb

CLJOHNSTON108

Monday, May 7, 2007 10:42 AM

Did you watch the Teaser?
http://manconquersspace.com/downloads/movies/MCSPromo.mpg

It's amazing how he was able to take archived footage from the Apollo program and replace the Saturn V rocket with the Bonestell version, complete with dust & scratches!

SWEETSERENDIPITY

Monday, May 7, 2007 10:53 AM

Out of the 3 clips in your first post, I could only see the water droplet one.

Then I watched the link from the last post, way too cool!

Deb

CLJOHNSTON108

Monday, May 7, 2007 11:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by sweetserendipity:
Out of the 3 clips in your first post, I could only see the water droplet one.

You need to scroll down.

There are 3 different sizes & formats available for the Sample Cinema Sequence.

JEFF1HILLS

Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:14 PM

OK, I've been following MCS for quite a while now. Does anyone have ANY idea when this is going to be released? I don't care whether it's theater or DVD.

Thanks!

CLJOHNSTON108

Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:24 PM

It's anybody's guess.
Just keep checking the Updates page.
http://manconquersspace.com/MCSUpdates.php

Welcome to the forum, Jeff!
I'm honored that your first post is to my humble thread!
(Looked like nobody else was interested.)

Introduce yourself in the General Discussions area, and you'll get a warm welcome... and your very own Virtual Browncoat!

CRUITHNE3753

Sunday, June 3, 2007 7:47 PM

Erks, just found out about this "Man Conquers Space" thing...

I recently had the rough idea for a TV series set in a somewhat similar scenario to this, but it would be a drama series rather than a "mockumentary".

EVERYTHINGSSHINY2K6

Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:49 PM

This looks really really cool. Will definitely be getting this when it finally comes out.