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Post #627857 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Mar 6, 2012 2:26 PM

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Yes, I viewed that religiously as a kid. The Peter Thomas soundtrack intro is burned into my mind, here again, WITH subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AvjMHs7U7I

Very exciting, but also very dorky, it was obviously a Starship Enterprise rip-off. It is still beyond me how they thought they could get away with building a common household hot iron into the set without anybody noticing :D :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO30NF7vfgI&feature=related

The music, the design, and the costumes were really cool, but the coolest/dorkiest were definitely the dance scenes. I just know you want to see MORE futurist dancing!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znN0KJUd_0M&feature=related

Grown men and women making fools of themselves with supposed futurist dance fads :lol:

30 years later, it was a house that looked like the Orion spaceship that was the connection that got the Book of Tiki published:


My friend Pete Moruzzi knew the architects who were renovating the Chemosphere house for Benedikt Taschen, and they gave him my proposal. The rest is (Tiki) history. :)

German Sci-fi has some other gems, like this late 50s musical, with even worse dancing, but GREAT sets:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MNznaalZTI&feature=youtu.be

Watch it all, to see where she escapes to!
And then, unbeknownst to us, there was the genre of EAST-German Sci-Fi cinema!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYT4qTkWWJA

...that apparently carried on well into the 70s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3y9H4SWJu8&feature=related