One of the few real science fiction movies ever made. Full of real ideas, many very interesting. The follow-on book by W.J. Stuart was richer than the movie (which is rarely the case).
I think it was an MGM movie but they hired Disney studios to do the design (including the refraction of colors in the air of the planet) and the generally excellent special effects.
The story form was based on Shakespeare's Tempest. The setting was adapted from A. E. van Vogt's 1940s classic, "The Voyage of the Space Beagle".
Like "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", which I think was the same year or the year before, there were several sets of writers -- the ones with the ideas, and
the ones hired to "punch and gag it up" for what Hollywood calls the "mouth breathers". So in both movies you get "Chateaubriand with ketchup" -- you just have to scrape the ketchup off to enjoy it.
Both of these heavily influenced the later Star Trek franchise (which still had a few ideas but lighter ones).
Cheers,
Alan
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Subject: Re: [fonc] Extending object oriented programming in SmalltalkOld Timer Alert!Ah, 1956. I was seven years old and Robby the Robot from the science fiction movie "Forbidden Planet" had just leaped into popular culture. Robby was an awesome automatous AI. The movie was really quite something for 1956. Faster than light travel, cool space ship, 3d printers, alien super brain race that had disappeared (the Krell), monsters from the ID.To me Lisp is like something created by the Krell. "As though my ape's brain could contain the secrets of the Krell."I asked John if he had seen the movie and he had. John is "Krell Smart".-David LeibsOn Aug 18, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Alan Kay wrote:fonc mailing listOne way to try to think about "the idea of Lisp" and the larger interesting issues, is to read "the Advice Taker" paper by John McCarthy (ca. 56-58 "Programs With Common Sense") which is what got him thinking about interactive intelligent agents, and got him to start thinking about creating a programming language that such agents could be built in.
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