Post by MCDemuth on Feb 9, 2017 1:09:42 GMT -5
I originally started this thread on IMDb, and I received a couple of interesting responses, so... I thought I would start it again here...
In the movie, Kitty Foyle discusses being "500 Light Years Apart" from the man she loves...
When I saw this movie the first time, I was surprised to hear Ginger saying those words...
While there were a few Science Fiction stories that had been around for awhile, like "The Time Machine"...
Just two years earlier in 1938... The famous radio broadcast of "War Of The Worlds" sent people running for the hills because Martians invaded New Jersey (NEW JERSEY?, THAT'S FUNNY!). And Mars is in our own solar system, and only several light MINUTES away from Earth.
Now it is true that Comic Books introduced the world to Superman in Action Comics #1 in June 1938, this might have been one of the very first fictional characters to come from another planet, KRYPTON, from outside our solar system.
Ginger may have been introduced to Superman prior to making this film...
But Kitty Foyle, should not have known... The scenes were Kitty talks about "500 Light Years" was supposedly taking place in the late 1920's or early 1930s... Oh wait, I forgot about the anachronism of "Ronald Coleman & Shangri-La" being mentioned in the film at approximately the same time in Kitty life. Never Mind...
Even if this was in 1940, this was SEVEN years before Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier... Many people even in 1947, didn't believe breaking the sound barrier was possible... So with it being 1940, there must have been very few people who believed it was actually possible for humans to go the Moon, or Mars... or even another Star System.
By the way, the nearest star system to ours is just 4.2 light years away... I have no idea what is 500 light year away...
This was decades before, anything like Star Wars or Star Trek was to enter the minds of the general population. Characters in Starships were not boldly exploring the galaxy in search of new lifeforms and new civilizations, using Faster Than Light travel.
Even with our best technology, that we have TODAY... Ginger would have needed more than 500 Years to get to any place that was 500 Light Years away. So much for taking the train!
It seems to me, that it must have been pretty advanced thinking for any member of the general population, like Ginger, who was NOT A SCIENTIST, to talk about "Light Years" in an everyday conversation in 1940...
I also have to wonder how many members of the audience left the theaters back then, wondering what that meant...
Martians?
Even throughout the 1940s & 1950s... Everyone was worried about "Martians"... Ahh ha ha ha ha ha!
It seems many people were a bit closed minded for a long time after 1938... If they only knew what was waiting to scare them on TV Shows and Movies in the future.
Sorry, I just had to bring that up...
In the movie, Kitty Foyle discusses being "500 Light Years Apart" from the man she loves...
When I saw this movie the first time, I was surprised to hear Ginger saying those words...
While there were a few Science Fiction stories that had been around for awhile, like "The Time Machine"...
Just two years earlier in 1938... The famous radio broadcast of "War Of The Worlds" sent people running for the hills because Martians invaded New Jersey (NEW JERSEY?, THAT'S FUNNY!). And Mars is in our own solar system, and only several light MINUTES away from Earth.
Now it is true that Comic Books introduced the world to Superman in Action Comics #1 in June 1938, this might have been one of the very first fictional characters to come from another planet, KRYPTON, from outside our solar system.
Ginger may have been introduced to Superman prior to making this film...
But Kitty Foyle, should not have known... The scenes were Kitty talks about "500 Light Years" was supposedly taking place in the late 1920's or early 1930s... Oh wait, I forgot about the anachronism of "Ronald Coleman & Shangri-La" being mentioned in the film at approximately the same time in Kitty life. Never Mind...
Even if this was in 1940, this was SEVEN years before Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier... Many people even in 1947, didn't believe breaking the sound barrier was possible... So with it being 1940, there must have been very few people who believed it was actually possible for humans to go the Moon, or Mars... or even another Star System.
By the way, the nearest star system to ours is just 4.2 light years away... I have no idea what is 500 light year away...
This was decades before, anything like Star Wars or Star Trek was to enter the minds of the general population. Characters in Starships were not boldly exploring the galaxy in search of new lifeforms and new civilizations, using Faster Than Light travel.
Even with our best technology, that we have TODAY... Ginger would have needed more than 500 Years to get to any place that was 500 Light Years away. So much for taking the train!
It seems to me, that it must have been pretty advanced thinking for any member of the general population, like Ginger, who was NOT A SCIENTIST, to talk about "Light Years" in an everyday conversation in 1940...
I also have to wonder how many members of the audience left the theaters back then, wondering what that meant...
Martians?
Even throughout the 1940s & 1950s... Everyone was worried about "Martians"... Ahh ha ha ha ha ha!
It seems many people were a bit closed minded for a long time after 1938... If they only knew what was waiting to scare them on TV Shows and Movies in the future.
Sorry, I just had to bring that up...