Just Imagine is a 1930 science fiction science comedy 1930, directed by David Butler. The film is known for its artistic and special effects especially in its imagined depiction of New York City in 1980. Just imagine the stars of El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick and Marjorie White. The "man from 1930" was played by El Brendel, a vaudeville ethnic comedian of the forgotten type: Swedish immigrant.
The film begins with an opening that shows life in 1880, where people believe themselves to be "the last word in speed". It switched to 1930, with the streets crammed with cars and lined with electric lights and telephone cables. Then switched to 1980, where the tenements had metamorphosed into a 250-storey building, linked by suspension bridges and multi-story highways.
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Plot
In 1980, J-21 (John Garrick) put his plane in "hover" mode in New York, landed and chatted with the beautiful LN-18 (Maureen O'Sullivan). He explained how the marriage court refused to consider marriage and application of the J-21, and the LN-18 would be forced to marry the arrogant and cruel MT-3 (Kenneth Thomson). J-21 plans to visit LN-18 that night.
RT-42 (Frank Albertson) tries to cheer him up by taking him to see a group of surgeons experimentally reviving a man from 1930, who was struck by lightning while playing golf, and was killed. The man (originally named Peterson now called Single O) was taken in hand by RT-42 and J-21, where it was revealed that the aircraft had replaced the car, the number had been renamed, the pills had replaced the food and liquor, and the only baby legal comes from a vending machine. That night, LN-18 pretended to be a headache, and her disgraceful father and MT-3 decided to go to the "show" without her. The second they went, RT-42 and J-21 appeared and proposed B-27 and LN-18 respectively. Father MT-3 and LN-18 return quite early, because MT-3 is very suspicious, and RT-42 and J-21 are hiding. However, the game was thwarted by Single O (El Brendel), a man from 1930, becoming addicted to highballs pills, drunk, and trying to get more high pills from J-21.
The J-21 is depressed, but contacted by Z-4, the scientist. He was told that Z-4 (Hobart Bosworth) had built a "rocket plane" that could take three people to Mars. After the farewell party at which the J-21 worked, in Pegasus, the balloon they called "water-liner", the rocket exploded, carrying J-21, RT-42 and Single O, which had been stored for synthetic rum. Landing on Mars, they are accepted by the Queen, Looloo and King, Loko. That night, Looloo and Loko took them to see the "show," a Mars opera, where a bunch of trained Martians danced. They are suddenly attacked by Booboo and Boko, the evil twins (everyone on Mars are twins) of Kings and Queens. They fled and returned to Earth, and as one of the first people on another planet, the J-21 was allowed to marry LN-18. Finally, Single O reunited with his elder son, Axel.
Maps Just Imagine
Cast
Production
Art/cinematography
The great and distinctive view of the Art Deco city, which Just Imagine has been the most remembered, was built on the former Army balloon hangars by a team of 205 technicians over a five-month period. The giant miniature spent $ 168,000 to build and was connected to 15,000 miniature light bulbs (an additional 74 arc lights were used to illuminate the city from above). Other production credits include costumes by Alice O'Neil and Dolly Tree with graphics by Post Amazers.
Special effects
The order in which El Brendel's character is revived from the first die-cast display feature of spectacular electrical equipment assembled by Kenneth Strickfaden, is seen again and more famously at James Whale's Frankenstein (1931). Over 50 special effects images that combine previous photo background with immediate foreground action completed using Dunning Process. Rear projection technology scale and quality required are not available at the time.
Designs specified in the form of glass and miniature drawings were performed by Stephen Goosson, Ralph Hammeras, SPFX-teacher Willis O'Brien, and Marcel Delgado (all unidentified).
Music
Of the songs DeSylva, Brown and Henderson are introduced in the movie, "Never Swat a Fly" is covered as a 1930 classic recording by McKinney's Cotton Pickers, 1967 revival by Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band, and recent recording by Doc Cheatham among others.
Reception
Mordaunt Hall was named Imagine , "smart", "very imaginative" and "interesting" and praised the costumes and designs set. This expensive movie is a one-time only action, supported by the popularity of short-lived El Brendel. Wonder Stories "strongly recommends" the film, saying it "shows many of the wonders that our science fiction writers have written".
Although a box-office failure, however, was finally able to recoup some of its production costs in the studio out shopping clips from futuristic sets for other films in that period. The clips from Cityscape from the film are then used in the Universal series Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers; the mock-up Mars spacecraft was re-used as a Dr. Zarkov. Also seen in the first series Flash Gordon is a strange hand weapon brought by J21 and RT42 on Mars, held below rather than over boxing, and reused tapes of dancing girls who babble and on Martian idols with the arm moving.
By the time Imagine was released, the music film had greatly decreased in popularity. As a result, major American studios would not support another big-budget science fiction movie until 1951. There was only one other American science fiction science fiction in that period, It's Great to Be Alive (1933), which failed at box-office. Series films are an exception to this general trend.
The first series of Flash Gordon from 1936 had huge budgets for the time series, and Gene Autry's
Awards
Just Imagine was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Stephen Goosson and Ralph Hammeras. It is famous as the first film of the science fiction genre nominated for an Oscar.
See also
- List of movies installed on Mars
References
Note
Bibliography
External links
- Just imagine in IMDb
- Just imagine in AllMovie
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