Sep 15 2024 59 mins 20
12 to the Moon saves two seats for Chris and Charlotte, who pretend to be experts in concept cars, driving anxiety, space politics, one-woman shows, and Wall Drug.
With the musical short, Design for Dreaming!
Show Notes.
12 to the Moon (David Bradley, 1960): IMDB. MST3K Wiki. Trailer.
Design for Dreaming (William Beaudine, 1956): IMDB. UnMSTed.
Previous Dodecalabour Day episodes: Hercules Against the Moon Men, Hercules Unchained, The Loves of Hercules, Hercules and the Captive Women, Hercules, Colossus and the Headhunters. Also I guess Manos was a sort of Labour Day episode?
The Story of Mankind (Irwin Allen, 1957) stars just about everyone, from Chico Marx to Peter Lorre to Agnes Moorehead to John Carradine to Dennis Hopper, but mostly it stars Vincent Price as the devil. And Marie Windsor from Swamp Diamonds!
Our episode on Rocketship X-M.
A reminiscence of visiting the 1956 General Motors Motorama in New York City.
The kitchen of tomorrow, from Frigidaire. (Frigidaire was owned by General Motors at the time.)
Host your car show at the Waldorf Astoria.
More about the concept cars of that Motorama.
The 20 Greatest Concept Cars of All Time, according to Motor Trend.
The Henry Ford (museum). (For some reason “Museum” isn’t officially part of their name?)
Noah Caldwell-Gervais’s majesterial seven-hour-long YouTube travelogue video essay about the Lincoln Highway — the first transcontinental highway in the US — includes a visit to The Henry Ford (museum) and shows off some of the old cars.
The Firebird II. More about the Firebird II. And a brochure for the car, which explains the automated highway stuff, kinda.
The National Air & Space Museum’s overview of the space race.
Kennedy’s January 1961 State of the Union Address and his September 1961 “We choose to go to the moon” speech.
A 1985 US Congressional Report on US-Soviet Cooperation in Space is a fascinating snapshot.
The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. (Chris consistently mispronounces Союз, despite practicing it beforehand. Oh well.)
This Vox video about the situation with Russia and the International Space Station is a few years old, and the news cycles have kept going, but it’s a reasonable start.
“Cindy Williams is Twlya Tharp as Isadora Duncan in The Meredith Monk Story (co-starring Tom Bosley as ‘Bosley’).” (UPDATE: Listener Ned points out it’s probably this Bosley. Of course!)
Beware! The Blob (Larry Hagman, 1972).
Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music.
DJ Shadow: Midnight in a Perfect World.
And where one sampled the other.
Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party.
The Lennon Sisters vs. The Lemon Sisters (Joyce Chopra, 1990).
Wall Drug and its far-flung billboards.
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