- Title: VM-261
- Summary: PHANTOM FROM SPACE: AN INVISIBLE ALIEN FROM OUTER SPACE CRASHES ON EARTH NEAR AN AMERICAN OBSERVATORY. AFTER THE ALIEN KILLS A FEW PICNICKERS, THE POLICE TAKE NOTICE AND, WITH THE HELP OF SOME SCIENTISTS, THEY DISCOVER THAT THE ALIEN MUST WEAR A HELMET CONTAINING AIR FROM HIS HOME PLANET TO SURVIVE. THE SCIENTISTS TRAP THE ALIEN, MAKE HIM VISIBLE USING AN INFRA-RED LIGHT MACHINE, & TAKE HIS HELMET OFF THUS KILLING HIM. SCIENCE FICTION. SPACEMEN, SPACESHIPS, FLYING SAUCER, LIGHTNING BOLTS. WITH TED COOPER, RUDOLPH ANDERS, NOREEN NASH, JAMES SEAY, HARRY LANDERS, JACK DALY, DICK SANDS, LELA NELSON, MICHAEL MARK.
- Description:00:18:08 - PLANE FLYING SOLO 00:18:11 - BIRDS EYE VIEW OF WASHINGTON, D.C. 00:18:22 - MANY PLANES FLY OVER D.C. 00:18:39 - VIEW OF AIR BASE 00:18:52 - NAVY SAILOR AT BOAT WHEEL 00:18:56 - PAN UP ON CONTROL TOWER 00:19:05 - MAN WALKS ON BEACH 00:19:07 - UFO IN SKY 00:19:11 - MAN LOOKS THRU BINOCULARS 00:19:26 - RADAR 00:19:41 - BATTLESHIP AT SEA 00:19:43 - RADAR 00:19:46 - HAND CIRCLES MAP 00:19:52 - UFO IN SKY 00:20:07 - PEOPLE IN CONTROL ROOM MONITOR 00:20:12 - UFO'S LOCATION. MANY PLANES TAKE OFF 00:20:14 - COMPASS & MAP 00:20:45 - MAPS 00:20:48 - MAN TUNES RADIO SIGNALS 00:21:07 - CONTROL ROOM 00:21:27 - OLD CAR DRIVES DOWN DIRT ROAD 00:21:41 - TWO MEN IN CAR 00:21:47 - CONTROL ROOM 00:21:50 - SHOT OF RADIO TRANSMITTER 00:21:55 - MAN ON RADIO 00:22:00 - MEN IN CONTROL ROOM, HEADQUARTERS 00:22:18 - MAN ON RADIO 00:22:22 - CAR WITH ANTENNA (SATELLITE) ON TOP, DRIVES WOMAN ON ROAD, FLAGS IT DOWN 00:22:52 - BACK TO HEADQUARTERS 00:22:54 - WOMAN TALKS TO MAN INSIDE CAR. MAN CALLS FOR HELP ON RADIO 00:23:34 - MAN GETS OUT OF CAR AND WALKS WITH WOMAN TO SEE WHAT'S WRONG 00:24:06 - TWO CARS STOPPED IN ROAD, DRIVERS TALK TO ONE ANOTHER 00:24:47 - MAN WALKING APPROACHES THE DRIVERS, MAN BORROWS CAR 00:25:19 - POLICE STATION BUILDING 00:25:25 - TWO INVESTIGATORS, A CLERK AND SOMEONE BEING INTERROGATED 00:26:49 - JUST THE INTERROGATE AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR TALKING 00:28:20 - COP CAR WITH SIRENS ON ZOOMS DOWN ROAD 00:28:36 - COP & PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR INVESTIGATE SCENE 00:28:51 - PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR WITH MAN IN CAR 00:29:41 - BACK TO INVESTIGATION 00:30:00 - MAN WITH THICK RIMMED GLASSES SPEAKS WITH INVESTIGATOR 00:30:18 - CAR DRIVES UP TO HOUSE. PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR GOES OUT TO TALK TO HIM, CAR PULLS AWAY 00:31:15 - SATELLITE DISH ROTATING 00:31:29 - OBSCURE SHOT OF MAN AT CONTROL PANEL 00:31:38 - CAR DRIVES THRU WOODS 00:31:49 - MEN IN CAR PULL UP TO SCENE. WATCH FROM ACROSS THE LAKE 00:32:00 - PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, BACK AT POLICE STATION, TALKS TO LIEUTENANT WHO IS LOOKING AT FINGERPRINTS 00:32:13 - MAN WALKS INTO ROOM, ASKS FOR A LIEUTENANT 00:32:32 - TWO MEN DRINK COFFEE AND DISCUSS SCENE (USING MAP) 00:34:21 - SKETCH ARTIST HANDS P.I. HIS WORK, THEY STUDY IT. IT IS A SKETCH OF AN ALIEN LOOKING CREATURE 00:35:18 - NEW MAN COMES IN TO BE QUESTIONED. THEY SHOW HIM THE SKETCH 00:37:45 - MAN ON PHONE 00:38:13 - CLOCK 00:38:17 - COP GIVES TELEGRAM TO INVESTIGATORS 00:38:45 - "GRIFFITH INSTITUTE" 00:38:50 - CONFERENCE ROOM, COLONEL AND LIEUTENANT AND INVESTIGATORS 00:44:20 - CAR DRIVES UP WITH SATELLITE 00:44:28 - MONTAGE OF CU, PEOPLE GETTING READY FOR THE JOB 00:44:32 - WATCH 00:44:36 - RADIO TRANSMITTER 00:44:50 - MAN IN CONTROL ROOM 00:45:06 - COP CAR 00:45:21 - SPACEMAN RUNS ON TOP OF ROOF, LOOKS DOWN AND SEES CARS 00:45:33 - OFFICERS AND INVESTIGATORS STAND BY CAR 00:45:51 - SPACEMAN'S SHADOW, RUNS 00:46:00 - SPACEMAN APPROACHES THE CARS. GETS SCARED & RUNS AWAY 00:46:54 - THREE MEN'S SHADOWS ON WALL, THEY LOOK FOR NEPTUNE MAN 00:47:03 - SPACEMAN RUNS 00:47:17 - THREE MEN WALK 00:47:22 - SPACEMAN RUNS, WE SEE HIS 00:47:25 - SHADOW. THREE MEN CHASE HIM 00:47:32 - SPACEMAN RUNS DOWNSTAIRS. IS SEEN BY ONE OF THE INVESTIGATORS AND PUSHES HIM OUT OF HIS WAY 00:47:45 - OTHER INVESTIGATORS RUN TO HELP 00:48:02 - ALL OF THE COPS SPOT HIM. THEY RUN TO CHASE HIM 00:48:06 - SPACEMAN'S SHADOW 00:48:08 - MEN COME TO A DEAD END 00:48:23 - SPACEMAN COMES OUT OF DOORWAY 00:48:30 - THEY SPOT HIM ONCE AGAIN 00:48:42 - SPACEMAN FEELS CAUGHT 00:48:50 - SPACEMAN TAKES HELMET OFF & HE HAS NO HEAD 00:48:54 - THE MEN WARN HIM TO COME OUT AT ONCE 00:49:00 - SPACEMAN TAKES HIS WHOLE SUIT OFF. HE IS INVISIBLE 00:49:16 - MEN BREAK DOWN DOOR, THEY RECOGNIZE HIS SUIT JUST LYING THERE 00:51:00 - THEY CARRY HIS SUIT TO THE TRUNK 00:51:34 - MAGICALLY, THE DOOR OPENS AND 00:52:00 - CAR BACKS INTO GARAGE. YOUNG COUPLE WITH DOG CHAT WITH COPS 00:53:20 - WOMAN CHASES AFTER DOG 00:53:23 - SPACEMAN (INVISIBLE) RUMMAGES THRU HOUSE 00:53:50 - DOG BARKS AT DOOR, WOMAN REASSURES HIM, IT'S ON ONE 00:54:55 - WOMAN, COLONEL AND DOCTOR INVESTIGATE SPACE SUIT 00:57:00 - WATCHES 00:57:15 - BACK IN THE LABORATORY WITH THE INVESTIGATION 00:58:31 - CAR PULLS UP 00:58:55 - BACK IN LAB 00:59:40 - MAN ON PHONE SPEAKS WITH PEOPLE IN THE LAB 01:01:31 - WOMAN IN LAB, DOES TESTS WITH BEAKERS 01:01:38 - INVISIBLE MAN OPENS DOOR COMES INTO LAB, WOMAN DROPS POWDER ON FLOOR AND SUDDENLY SHE REALIZES SOMETHING IS STRANGE. SHE GOES TO THE DOOR, DOORKNOB MOVES BY ITSELF 01:02:33 - WOMAN IN LAB IS VERY FRIGHTENED AT THE OBJECTS MOVING BY THEMSELVES 01:02:37 - MAN WITH GLASSES APPROACHES LAB DOOR. HE CALLS HER NAME 01:02:42 - SHE WARNS HIM ABOUT THE INVISIBLE CREATURE IN THE LAB WITH HER 01:02:54 - SHE HEARS HIM TRY TO BREAK DOWN DOOR, BUT SHE WARNS HIM OFF AND SENDS HIM FOR HELP 01:02:59 - THREE MEN WITH AUTHORITY 01:03:12 - MAN RUNNING FOR HELP THRU LARGE BUILDING 01:03:18 - HE GREETS THEM WITH A WARNING (TWO MEN) HE CONVINCES THEM TO GO WITH HIM 01:03:31 - THEY REACH THE LABORATORY AND THERE ISN'T ANYONE THERE ANYMORE 01:03:57 - THE MEN PURSUE THE STRANGER 01:04:07 - MAN FINDS WOMAN, SHE IS BEING DRAGGED BY THE NECK, BY THE INVISIBLE SPACEMAN 01:04:39 - WOMAN STILL BEING DRAGGED 01:04:47 - TWO OF THE MEN DISCUSS PROBLEM 01:04:59 - WOMAN WAKES UP FROM TRAUMA. HER SIGN HAS BEEN SCREWED UP 01:05:43 - THREE MEN ARGUE 01:06:03 - THE SPACE SUIT RISES, THE SPACEMAN PUTS IT ON HIS HEAD (HELMET) 01:06:18 - WOMAN IS QUITE SCARED, THE HELMET COMES RIGHT FOR HER. SHE GRABS KNIFE & THREATENS HIM BUT HE GRABS WRIST AND MAKES HER DROP THEM 01:06:43 - HE PICKS UP SCISSORS AND STARTS A CODE. SHE WRITES DOWN WHAT HE'S SAYING 01:07:39 - HIS INVISIBILITY STARTS TO FADE AND AN ARM & HAND APPEAR, THE WOMAN SCREAMS 01:07:40 - THREE MEN HEAR HER. THEY RUSH TO THE LAB AND OPEN THE DOOR 01:08:11 - SHE IS IN THERE LOOKING FOR HIM, MEANWHILE, THE PHANTOM IS GOING OUT THE WINDOW 01:08:24 - DOG BARKING. THE FOUR PEOPLE STAND IN LAB WONDERING WHERE DID HE GO? 01:08:38 - DOG STILL BARKING 01:08:55 - THE SUIT DISINTEGRATES, THE THREE LAB PEOPLE WATCH IT DISINTEGRATE 01:09:18 - DOG BARKS AT COLONEL 01:09:42 - COPS PULL UP IN CAR 01:10:45 - THEY BRING BOX (SUIT WAS IN) TO DOCTOR-SCIENTIST. EXPLAINS THINGS TO THEM. PROPOSES THAT THE INVISIBLE MAN IS SUPERHUMAN 01:13:35 - SURVEILLANCE AT NIGHT IN FIELD 01:14:10 - BACK TO SCIENTIST 01:15:59 - SATELLITE OUTSIDE 01:16:14 - RADIO TRANSMITTER & CONTROL ROOM BOY & GUY PICK UP SIGNALS THRU RADIO 01:16:44 - MEN SURVEYING FIELD WITH SATELLITE HEAR THE TAPPING CODE AGAIN 01:16:58 - FOUR INVESTIGATORS SIT & SMOKE 01:18:10 - MONTAGE OF TWO DOORWAYS, MAN RIGGING MACHINERY 01:18:55 - ROAD TO LAB IS BLOCKED OFF AND COP STOPS CAR 01:19:32 - BACK TO CONFERENCE TABLE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1953
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-261