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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9783497" data-attributes="member: 7026617">I grew up watching older SF movies on Saturday afternoon TV matinees in my childhood, so I have a disproportionate fondness for them.I think, to some extent, some of the 50's SF films looked fairly believeable to the people of the time.  That's largely because their familiar palette of what they expected certain elements of film to look like was different than what we're used to (or even people in 1968 were used to).  That said, its notable that only a small number of 50's era SF films were actually focused on space travel (and to be clear, some that were were cheesy as all get out), and part of it was the understanding that doing it at all right was difficult and expensive (and of course extremely speculative because we hadn't done any spaceflight yet.)  That said, I suspect that movies like Rocketship X-M came across to viewers at the time as fairly believeable because it used a palette they were familiar with (even though in the rear view mirror there are all kinds of things wrong with it).(And now you went and got me to riding one of my favorite hobbyhorses again...)</blockquote>