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Sara Bareilles (With Aoife O'Donovan and Sarah Jarosz): "Fire" (Live on SNL) [VIDEO]

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines4/07/2019 4:34:53 pm PDT

Despite my intense interest in all things space-related, then and now, I had never heard of this 1962 movie before someone posted about it on the Apollo/Saturn FB page today.


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Apparently it is a satirical comedy that gently mocks the same government and industry figures Disney had earlier deified in his Man in Space series. The FBI complained to Disney about the script, since it portrayed an FBI agent as an astronaut’s bodyguard, which is not their job. The script was duly changed, with the FBI agent becoming a “federal security agent.” The FBI then complained because the “security agent” was portrayed as a buffoon.
It is available on Amazon Prime so I may check it out. Given the minimal production values and lowest-common-denominator scripting in many of Disney’s mass market products of the time, I am not expecting much. There might be something there, though.