In the When World Collide movie, the crews building the escape ships were urged on by daily announcements of how many days until the collision with Bronson Alpha, and the ‘drop dead’ date for the launch to Bronson Beta.
That, along with showing the today’s pages of the count down calendar was a cinematic device to show days, weeks and months of frantic work in a few minutes of film time.
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