Old Sci Fi Pictures

I did a search and couldn't find this catagory. I was thinking about a couple of my favorites like Tarantula from 1955 which is my favorite big bug movie. I remember going with my grandmother to see that picture and scared to death when I saw Leo G. Carroll's face after he had been attacked with one eye higher then the other. I wouldn't even get into bed until the sheets had been completely checked for weeks.

The other movie I always loved The Blob, the 1958 version with Steve McQueen, which was much better then 1988. And I thought that the Beware of the Blob, the 1972 version was pretty campy. I remembered Godfrey Cambridge in that one.

Los Angeles's KHJ TV station used to run the same movie every night for 5 nights and one week they ran one of the versions of King Kong and I was obsessed with it.

I do love watching those silly 1950's sci-fis, they're great late night fluff.

Anyone have their favorites from any of the earlier periods before cgi got so whiz bang?

Tags: movies, old, sci-fi

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Permalink Reply by The Professor on September 30, 2008 at 11:25pm: I've always been a huge Forbidden Planet fan. That was a movie that was always on at my house in the early VCR days....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Firewater on October 5, 2008 at 6:01am: good one; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mercurio3 on September 30, 2008 at 11:29pm: I do love watching those silly 1950's sci-fis, they're great late night fluff.

what's "Los Angeles KHJ TV"? is that like "vcrs"?

Here's a list of Wikipedia's very old sci fi movies of the 1950's

OLD SCI FI MOVIES

and here's Net Flix narrow selection of "old" SCI FI Movies; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Juli on September 30, 2008 at 11:43pm: KCAL-TV used to be known as KHJ many years ago. Very cheap running station. Probably the worst in that market as far as ad dollars and what they were able to run, and probably why they ran the same movie 5 nights a week. Long before VCR's. Oh you must be a "youngin'". And I'm one of those hippie types, or was.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mercurio3 on October 1, 2008 at 12:08am: and probably why they ran the same movie 5 nights a week<< oh well we have HBO and Cinemax doing the same thing now..so is not that old!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Juli on October 1, 2008 at 12:19am: In looking at the list you linked to, it made me think of something funny. The The House of Tomorrow at Disneyland (and yes, eeesh, I took this pix with a brownie). Naturally it's not there anymore, I don't even remember when they took it down:; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mercurio3 on October 1, 2008 at 1:36am: lol.. probably cuz the house of tomorrow still looks like the house of yesterday.
imagine we lived in those type of homes?! We would survive the floods...well small floods that is cuz that thing is hitting the rocks.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Juli on October 1, 2008 at 12:13pm: Actually the design I've always wanted is a Yurt. I've been trying to get my nephew, the architect, to design one according to what I want for a few years. He may get the hang of it yet.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alan The Not So Nice and Not So Helpful on October 1, 2008 at 12:37pm: A bit of Googling revealed that the house of tomorrow was also referred to as the Monsanto House. It was around from June 1957 to September 1967.

Monsanto House of the Future; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mercurio3 on October 1, 2008 at 1:25pm: Looking at these pictures and designs..i dont see any tomorrow at all anymore. It all looks so dated.. very 1960's-early 70's if you ask me.

this is more like the house of now and tomorrow; ▶ Reply to This