That is why the decade is being split into ten separate segments, beginning with the obvious choice of 1950.
After the genre lagged in the post war days - we Americans wanted romance and love and music after the horrors of battle - 1950 brought cinema closer to the moon than it had been in over a decade.
The first major sci-fi film to start filming in 1950, was the George Pal-produced Destination Moon.
Being the story of a manned flight to the moon, Pal's film was meant to be a realistic look at space travel.
No monsters or space battles, but just a methodical take on what space travel might be like.
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