The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)

YouTube ^ | 1961 | Val Guest; British Lion-Pax

[WhiskeyX]

Atomic weapon tests by the US and USSR cause the tilt of the Earth to shift by 11 degrees dooming all life. Excellent low budget British Sci Fi.

[WhiskeyX]

Climate Change in the movies in 1961.

[PLMerite]

Featuring the lovely Janet Munro:

[ClearCase_guy]

Long-standing Leftist approach:

"That thing you just did? Well, that just doomed the earth. You owe me money."

[left that other site]

B-B-But...

I was there in 1961, it didn’t happen, and I’m still here.

[publius911]

Leftist zealots are so consistently science ignorant, that they have never, in my lifetime, been able to analyze and make a distinction between movies and reality.

My favorite, in terms of stupidity, is still The China Syndrome.

[bobby.223]

1961? That was the Year the Van Allen Belt went nuts in the movie: ‘Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea’. The sky was on fire baby!!!! (Peter Lorre, Barbara Eden, and others to the rescue with the mighty Submarine Seaview!!!)

[Fiji Hill]

I saw Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in a movie theater in the summer of 1961 and loved it--even though I knew that when an ice cap breaks up, the chunks of ice don't sink.

[bobby.223]

So did I, then again, Everything Submarines or underwater deals was my thing in those days. (Plus Barbara Eden’s rear view dance scene was worth the price of admission!!!!) Damn, now I’m gonna have to go to youtube and look that up if it is there! I’m to old and PC stupid to know how to put up a link here for FReepers, I know you can. If it is there put it up huh?

[PAR35]

1961? That was the Year the Van Allen Belt went nuts in the movie: ‘Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea’. The sky was on fire baby!!!! (Peter Lorre, Barbara Eden, and others to the rescue with the mighty Submarine Seaview!!!)

And the takeaway from that is that you should always send a submarine to solve any problems you have in space.

[UCANSEE2]

Lika dis ?

Nice Barbara Eden 1 / 7 Dancing " Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea " 1962

[WhiskeyX]

They did a very nice job of restoring and remastering the film.

[BenLurkin]

El lo!

[a fool in paradise]

US vs USSR, and the UK is the one paying the price.

[a fool in paradise]

Timing is suspicious:
Ban The Bomb 800 Jailed (Pathe UK newsreel 1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEHZ2Ny4kQ

[a fool in paradise]

Take a submarine and Raquel Welch to solve any problem you have in inner-space!

[Rebelbase]

Thanks for the movie. I’ve got a folder on my toolbar that is for movies only and just dragged and dropped this one in!

[a fool in paradise]

even though I knew that when an ice cap breaks up, the chunks of ice don't sink.

The glow-bull warmists don't know that.

[UCANSEE2]

And the takeaway from that is that you should always send a submarine to solve any problems you have in space.

That is so funny.... oh wait.

NASA Wants To Send A Nuclear Submarine To Saturn's Moon Titan

[WhiskeyX]

“US vs USSR, and the UK is the one paying the price.”

Yes, that was always a key part of the Soviet divide and conquer strategy and propaganda targeting the societies of the Western Allies. The Soviets financed and helped to organize the CND and their political protests which you are seeing depicted in the movie. It was no accident when the CND Peace symbol was adopted for the anti-war and anti-nuclear weapons protest movements that focused on disarming the West and not the Soviet and other Communist nations.

[a fool in paradise]

I don’t know much about the UK “ban the bomb” movement but what I do know comes from my readings on the British underground/alternative press of the early-mid-60s that was there when Beats (beatniks) and rock and roll came into fashion.

IT (International Times), OZ, the Beats at Royal Albert Hall. Before those foundational events, there were the stirrings of the “ban the bomb” movement.