This is a 1950 movie trailer for Flight to Mars. It’s a grade B science fiction pulp adventure about an expedition to mars that encounters an underground civilization. I think it actually has a very nice look with lots of color, great sets and fantastic costumes.
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Animator Alex Bland made this homage to science fiction movie posters of the 1950s. It’s as if one of those old graphic Hollywood posters came to life with ray guns, flying saucers, robots, police cars and fleeing pedestrians.
This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.
Chapter 4: John Carter is a prisoner of the strange martians. He is taken to a magnificent structure where he is introduced under strange circumstances to a leader of the martian warriors.
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This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.
Chapter 3: John Carter finds himself on the red planet. He finds that he can leap with superhuman ability. His first encounter with deadly and peculiar martians gives him a surprise.
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This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.
Chapter 2: John Carter tells how he awoke inside the cave in danger of losing his life to his pursuers or possibly to the thing making strange noises behind him. Our pulp sci-fi novel makes its first reach for the stars in this chapter.
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This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre. The story concerns soldier John Carter who is mysteriously transported to the red planet where he fights to protect his princess against impossible odds and many peculiar creatures. The book is very much a product of its time, with outdated ideas about the red planet and outdated social ideas. But if you can just go along for the adventurous ride, you are in for a sci-fi space opera swashbuckling treat.
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