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There’s nothing better than a vintage space item to brighten spirits, especially one we’ve never heard of before. This Youtube post has been up about a month — an episode of a 1959 TV show called  Flight, produced at MGM by Robert Stillman. The one-season series’ 38 episodes dramatized military aviation stories … all but the final show, which appears to have co-opted an unsold science fiction pilot by special effects and sci-fi experts Jack Rabin and Irving Block. Their colleague Louis DeWitt is in on the deal as well.

It’s about a rocketship crash on a planetoid; officers from a space station effect a rescue. Fans of  Forbidden Planet will note the use of futuristic hardware from both Altair-4 and the C-57D; a planetscape uses the giant Altair-4 cyclorama. The director is the busy Boris Sagal, and the one familiar actor is Robert Fuller. Block and Rabin’s one-shot TV company has its own logo, ‘Raylock Productions.’

Just posted at Trailers from Hell, is Daniel Kremer’s feature length editorial mashup that takes Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point and … and …. , well, take a look and see.

Maybe it’s an interior study — it pulls in a lot more than those two movies. It’s only been up two days. That’s a record here … I’m usually reporting on items much less fresh:

CineSavant reviews for both source movies:    Zabriskie,    Mad x 4

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson