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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

Directed by Norman D. Wells
19671h 19mEnglishColor3.4 / 51135.4k viewsPublic Domain

A team of astronauts crashes on the surface of Venus. Accompanied by their robot, they explore the surface and end up destroying the Venusian God. This film is also known as "The Gill Women" and "The Gill Women of Venus". This film began life as a Soviet-produced work. An American producer then added some new footage and changed the credits to hide the film's Soviet origin. The original film, "Planeta Bur", is also known as "Cosmonauts on Venus", "Planet of Storms", "Planet of Tempests", "Planeta Burg", and "Storm Planet". Much of the film "Planeta Bur" was also incorporated into the "American" film "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" . This film was shown in "Pathe" color, which is essentially just a method of placing color filters over a black and white film. Consequently, the color that you see is not the true color of the sets but instead represents an "interpretation" of a black and white original. This film can be downloaded as a Theora file. The file size is approximately 25% larger than the MPEG-2, with similar quality. Simply click on this link . You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . More information is also available from the Wikipedia article here .

Archivist Notes

Robot Mike★★★★★

"Yup, 1998 was a wild year for NASA. Believe it or not, Venus is inhabitted by ladies in puffy blonde wigs, seashell bras, and green hip huggers. Not..."

6/9/2006
ragah1

"This was a horrible movie. No plot. I was sitting there waiting for the film to get started and it just ended without much happening in between."

6/7/2006
terracesider★★★

"The mpeg1 file I donwloaded was missing the last few minutes. Strange, because it was the expected length To get the ending I had to download the 256m..."

4/10/2006
b11761500s★★★

"I am glad I watched it. Lots of strange, bizarre science and movie making. Low budget for sure. No Oscar nominations here. But if your expectations ar..."

4/6/2006
billbarstad

"What do you get when you combine a Soviet-era sci-fi movie dubbed with inexplicable dialogue and shots of California bathing beauties? Well, a really..."

4/2/2006