From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Among the things Mark Leeper wrote:   
   > DESTINATION MOON (1950), the film that probably should have led off    
   > the Fifties science fiction cycle   
      
   Are you comparing it to "Rocketship X-M"?  I thought accepted wisdom was that   
   although that film was finished first, it was started in response to   
   "Destination Moon."   
      
   "Captain Video" did precede them both on television.  It was earthbound (at   
   best, airbound) in its early years, but still sf.  And, of course, the   
   Ley/Bonestell book _The Conquest of Space_, I could probably argue that it was   
   more an adaptation of that    
   book than _Rocketship Galileo_.   
      
   I've been watching a lot of "classic" movies, and in that context I think I   
   would put "Destination Moon" among the biopics of the era.  It's essentially   
   constrained by facts from getting too exciting, and the audience knows at   
   least the broad strokes of    
   the story.   
      
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   -Jack   
      
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