A Gallic picture show from 1931 foretell La Fin du Monde was a special effects megahit for its time , feature a elephantine comet about to smash up into the Earth , and astonishing pursual up and down the Eiffel Tower . So of course , an American movie distributer got hold of it and decided to do the old “ Raymond Burr Godzilla ” hatchet job on the poor movie , editing out most of the character and adding in a bunch of random English subtitle to “ excuse ” the action . Plus , the Americans add a long , strange language at the beginning from a tangible astronomer explain that comet could hit the Earth , and in fact many already had . Thus the Americanized , 1934 version of “ The remainder of the World ” was bear – the one you see here . This is the most action mechanism - packed part , and it ’s awesome how closely it resembles today ’s “ danger from space ” action sequences in movies like Deep Impact or Armageddon .
Here ’s our checklist for what a “ danger from space ” sequence always contains , and you ’ll notice that it ’s all here , back in the early thirties , in this clipping :
hotfoot against time !
awing , giant watershed under seige !
Martial law !
Cool shiny thing zooming through the sky !
Fire !
Yelling into a telephone !
Elevator clank !
Crowds call !
Birds are afraid !
More insanely bright diddley in the sky !
See how the more things modify , the more skill fiction about comet crash into the Earth last out the same ?
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