Underplayed Gems

Weltraumschiff 18 (1939)

Weltraumschiff 18 poster
Directed by
Eduard von Borsody
Genre
adventure film
Country
Nazi Germany
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a German science fiction film project from the late 1930s that was never completed because of World War Two. Footage from the production was later reused in a short film called Space Ship I Launches.

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What happens

Weltraumschiff 18 war ein deutsches Science-Fiction-Filmprojekt aus den Jahren 1937 bis 1939, das aufgrund des Zweiten Weltkrieges abgebrochen wurde. Die Dreharbeiten fanden bei der Ufa in Berlin statt. Das bis 1939 fertiggestellte Material wurde von Anton Kutter weiterverwendet. Zusammen mit Aufnahmen des ebenfalls abgebrochenen Filmprojektes „Zwischenfall im Weltall“, das in den Bavaria-Filmstudios gedreht worden war, schuf er den Kurzfilm „Weltraumschiff I startet“. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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