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From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (wbpesch)
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Subject: Re: post-holocaust films
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Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 10:06:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 29 10:06:06 1983
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First, how can we forget the great folly of "Simian Cinema", the Apes
Series (Remember Planet of Apes, Beneath the PotA, Conquest of tPotA,
Escape from tPotA, and Battle for tPotA).  Maybe a nomination also for
a real bad series of films?

"Things to Come", a 1934 film by Orson Wells, which anticipated a
global war soon to start, which having no atomics in those days, was
conducted by biological warfare, which did just as good of a job.  The
deadly disease was the "wandering disease", which gave its victims a
compulsive urge to wander, and therefor spread the disease.

Lastly, we have the film that we cannot remember the name of.  It is a
50's vintage science fiction that deals with a jet plane that goes
into a future not destroyed by atomic bombs but the future destroyed
by the pollution of atomic power and radio-active wastes.  The trip
into the future is accomplished by time warp which is accomplished by
breaking the speed of light.  The speed of light broken by a jet
plane, you say?  Well, we have the intrinsic velocity of the jet
plane, which was traveling east and therefor also received the
velocity of the spin of the earth, and the velocity from the orbit of
the earth around the sun, from the sun orbiting the center of the
galaxy, and the galaxy orbiting the center of the universe.  All of
these velocities totaled exceeded the speed of light. (?)  He
eventually returns to he present to warn us of the dangers of atomic
power.