In rec.humor.oracle.d, Danny Sichel <
dsichel@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, September 10, 2020, Eli the Bearded wrote:
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expecting a response to this post sometime in 2023
ta-da!
Uncanny.
I should mention that I did eventually watch Doris Wishman's film. The
Florida estate where it was filmed was more intetesting than the nudes.
Here's a review I wrote:
Dr John Clark worked at Naval Air Rocket Test Station developing fuels
for 21 years. The US government spent about a decade and billions of
dollars developing the Saturn V rocket.
Before he was a rocket fuel guy, he made a "race track" periodic table,
attempting to show relationships between elements better, which was
later used for a cover of Life Magazine
(race track periodic table image)
And then I watch this which makes it all seem so easy:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056293/
Dr. Jeff Huntley develops rocket fuels for his own company. When he gets
a $3 million inheritance he spends that and in six months builds a
rocket to fly to the moon. Where he is surprised to find that it is lush
with plants, has gold just littered on the ground, and natives that look
like humans with very slim antennas. These moon people communicate
psychicly and only wear shorts. There are males and females, but more
females. And strangely the tanlines suggest they usually wear more. The
first half of the film was funny in how bad the science was. The moon
scenes are basically the astronauts standing around ogling the topless
"aliens" while they engage in games that would bore a kindergartner as
being too simple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Wishman
Her first films are called nudist camp films or Nudist romances.
In 1957, a New York Appeals court ruling allowed films depicting
nudism to be exhibited in movie theaters in New York State.
Wishman was familiar with the appeal and potential of nudist
camp movies due to her acquaintances with Walter Bibo, whose
film Garden of Eden gained notoriety due its influence of
swaying censorship laws for filming nudity. Inspired by this
development, Wishman claimed in several interviews to have
borrowed $10,000 from her sister to produce her first film,
Hideout in the Sun, a nudist film, shot in late 1958 and
released in early 1960. Her next film, Nude on the Moon,
released in 1961, was a science fiction nudie. The film was
banned in New York State after the New York State Censorship
Board ruled that films featuring nudity in a nudist colony were
legally permissible but nudity in a fantasy film set in a
"nudist colony on the Moon" was not.
The trailer is on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZywl8PXXu4
And the whole seventy minute film is at Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/Nude.on.the.Moon.1961.AVI1Gb
The moon scenes were filmed at Coral Castle, in Miami-Dade County,
Florida. That place is it's own ball of weird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle
I haven't looked for or watched any other Wishman films.
Elijah
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wondering if there are other predictions he should check up on
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