“Mars Daughter, You are fine. I am loving you and I should like very much to marry you.”Un matrimonio interplanetario [A Marriage in the Moon] (Enrico Novelli, 1910)
Sep
12
Луна 2 – 1959
Aldovin (director and author of La Colonia Lunare (1908) meets his lovely Martian fiancée halfway, on the Moon.
To commemorate the launch (not landing) of the Луна 2 aka the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket on September 12, 1959, we present The Moon.
According to Wikipedia, Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to touch the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body. Well, Enrico Novelli went there first…
– Aldovin, Terrestrial Astronomer (Aldovin's radiotelegraph to Mars), via
…and what an adventure he had! An Earth gentleman points his telescope at Mars, only to spot a beautiful Lunar princess. He promptly falls in love and lo and behold! it's mutual! That asks for an instantaneous wedding on the Moon, and nothing can stop them!
Mars
Аэлита [Aelita / Aelita: Queen of Mars] (Yakov Protazanov, 1924)
Apr
29
International Astronomy Day
Queen Aelita (Yuliya Solntseva) peering through her telescope. DPs: Emil Schünemann & Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky.
Like in Enrico Novelli's Un matrimonio interplanetario [A Marriage in the Moon] (1910), interplanetary romance blooms in Аэлита.
Through her #telescope, Queen Aelita spots engineer Los, a handsome Earth man, and he promptly travels to #Mars to be with her. There, Los uncovers an uprising by the Elders against his beloved queen that he vows to – in good proletarian fashion – stomp down.
Aelita*'s constructivist stage and costume design had an enormous influence on science fiction, as far as the late 20th century.