Classic Outer Space Movies Before “2001” Changed Cinema

2001: A Space Odyssey changed not only science fiction, but cinema itself. But Kubrick’s masterpiece did not come out of nowhere. Today, we are looking at 12 films that took audiences to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and far beyond before Kubrick changed the way space looked and felt on screen. Some are classics, some are wonderfully strange, and all of them helped pave the way. 0:00 Intro 0:32 Rocketship X-M (1950) 1:45 Destination Moon (1950) 3:01 Flight to Mars (1951) 4:40 This Island Earth (1955) 5:52 Forbidden Planet (1956) 6:57 Queen of Outer Space (1958) 7:59 First Spaceship on Venus (1960) 9:10 Ikarie XB 1 (1963) 10:23 First Men in the Moon (1964) 11:44 Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) 12:48 Planet of the Vampires (1965) 13:42 Queen of Blood (1966) 🗣 I use text-to-speech software for the narration in my videos. I don’t have the ability to record it myself, so this helps create better sound. #ClassicSciFi #SciFi #ASpaceOdyssey