maytg_jedi : 1972

1972

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Some time in January 1972, the movie The Cowboys premiered.

Bruce Dern, who was also in Silent Running, released in March of 1972, see below, starred as one of the few men to shoot the Duke on screen. Roscoe Lee Brown, who would play the voice of Box in Logan's Run some four years later was Mr. Nightlinger. John Williams did a wonderful soundtrack.

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Some time in March 1972, the movie Silent Running premiered in the US. The IMDB also lists it by title as coming out in 1971.

A few of things are missing from the listing.

Stock footage of the three ships in formation was used in Battlestar Galactica to represent the Agro Ships.
The ships, or at least the Valley Forge was an American Airlines Space Freighter. An American AA logo patch is on the jumpsuit.
Joseph Campanella was the un-credited voice of a crewman named Neil on the Berkshire. I would watch Campanella in the early days of Nickelodeon on What Will They Think of Next?

It's a pity that the model is not still around....

I think that my father-in-law has some pictures of when he was on a helicopter carrier that might have been the actual Valley Forge.

I watched this in the early 1980s one night on WKRC Channel 12 out of Cincinnati. Some time later, I was able to audio tape it and even wrote out a transcription of the dialogue. I could not tell how to label the voices of Wolfe, Barker and Keenan, since I couldn't tell them apart.

I also bought the album of the soundtrack from Citadel Records along with the soundtrack to Dark Star. When I was listening to the tapes over and over, I found that while you only see three ships at a time, there are actually nine mentioned during the radio chatter. Perhaps there are three groups of three in different positions along the same orbit. I'll put the complete list up in time.

Valley Forge
Berkshire
Arcadia
Blue Ridge
Glacier
Mohave
Yellowstone
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I actually went as far as to work up a back story to explain how and why the last vegetation from Earth had been put out into space. I've read places that it was due to nuclear war, but there is nothing in the movie which even hints at this. Commander Anderson's dedication speech from the first day of the new century, given some eight and a half years earlier than the events in the film, don't say anything about war. I came up with the idea that the Earth had been terraformed by humans to support a greater population. I imagined that this population eventually took more and more of the forests until the National Parks were the only remaining refruges. This makes sense when you look at the ship names listed above.

Everywhere you go the temperature is 75 degrees. Everything is the same. All the people are exactly the same. Now what kind of life is that?

I imagined a machine that would act like an artificial tree: it would process carbon dioxide and other wastes and convert them into oxygen and other usable products. It could even produce complex molecules used for synthetic foods.

I can't believe you guys eat that stuff.

Lowell, what's real food? What, out of the dirt? That's real food isn't it?

Yeah. That's right. It's real because I picked it and I fixed it. And it has a taste and it has a color. And it has a smell. And it calls back a time when there were flowers all over the Earth. And there were valleys and there were rivers. There were plains of tall green grass that you could lie down in. That you could go to sleep in. And there were things growing all over the place not just in some domed enclosures blasted some millions of miles out into space.

I don't know if there was ever a novelization of the screen play.

I also read about the film in the book Science Fiction Movies in about 1977.

When I was in either 7th or 8th grade (1979-1981), I found a copy of the 1972 World Book Yearbook which had a large section on the movie and its effects.

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1972-05

My uncle Volney McCarty, one of my mother's older brothers died out in California.

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My sister Karen graduated from High School.

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My 5th birthday.

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In the fall of 1972, a few months after turning 5 years old, I started Kindergarten at Tiffin Elementary. Ms. Quincel was my teacher.

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The movie Bless the Beasts and the Children premiered.

The book is by Glendon Swarthout and I'd like to read it. Billy Mumy, who I watched in re-runs of Lost in Space was in this film. Cotton's Dream written by Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin would later be used in The Young and the Restless, which would premiere the next year in 1973. This music was also used by Nadia Comaneci in one of her routines in the 1976 Montreal Olypics. This is a soundtrack that needs to be re-released. The Carpentars song is also great. I remember watching this a few times as an afternoon movie when I was a boy.

Thomas Brown has a review of the film and notes on the music on this page.

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The television movie Gargoyles aired.

Jennifer Salt, who was on Soap years later was in this. I might have actually seen it when it first came out. I was 5 years old and I do have pretty vivid memories of it.

I didn't know that Scott Glenn or Cornel Wilde were in this.

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