While the first few films about Space travel-primarily those by George Pal- were relatively serious and full of good intentions to get it right, the prime sources of inspiration for most of the films of the 1950s and early \'60s-the first sci-fi boom-were not so much austere scientific journals and speculative studies, but rather the mad, bad pulp magazines of the 1930s, \'40s, and \'50s.
These glorious mind-meddlers had already inspired movie serials and comic books of the same period, from Rep.
While the first few films about Space travel-primarily those by George Pal- were relatively serious and full of good intentions to get it right, the prime sources of inspiration for most of the films of the 1950s and early \'60s-the first sci-fi boom-were not so much austere scientific journals and speculative studies, but rather the mad, bad pulp magazines of the 1930s, \'40s, and \'50s
