Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
美國 · Fred F. Sears（哥倫比亞影業）
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A black-and-white 1956 sci-fi feature in which Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion saucers lay siege to Washington, D.C. — one of the most iconic screen echoes of Cold War flying-saucer panic.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers turns 1950s America's collective anxiety about 'flying saucers' into spectacle. Its invaders arrive as disc-shaped craft, and effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen used stop-motion animation to give each rotating saucer real-seeming weight as it glides, dives, and crashes through the streets of Washington. The opening titles credit the film as suggested by Major Donald Keyhoe's non-fiction bestseller Flying Saucers from Outer Space, plugging the era's most-read saucer argument straight into the entertainment machine[1]. The movie makes no serious evidentiary case; instead it locks in the disc as the definitive shape of the Cold War 'invader from the skies.'
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- 1.Flying Saucers from Outer Space — Henry Holt and Company · 1953Book
- 2.The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects — Doubleday · 1956Book