On 9/2/2010 4:13 AM, wrote:
On Sep 2, 2:54 am, Pat wrote:

Did the average person know what a dildo looked like, in 1930? How
old are dildos in the public arena? (The great thing about human
history is how things connect.)

Clean back to the stone age:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo#History

Well, that certainly adds to my store of conversation. (American
Science& Surplus used to sell the penis-molding kit but under another
designation.)

The big prop spaceship that was originally built for the 1930 musical
comedy "Just Imagine" that later showed up in the Flash Gordon serials
probably inspired a lot of copies as to its cockpit layout:http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OUbGkSfaKrs/0.jpg

Is "Just Imagine" a lost movie? I keep seeing stills from it, but
never anything about a copy of it. I bet a dozen could be sold
through this list alone.

It showed up on Turner Classic Movies at least once.
It's a very strange thing, a very big budget musical comedy that's
partly Vaudeville, partly slapstick.
Here's the incredibly involved dirigible crew's drinking song from it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL7JJ4rsLR8
Here's some more info on the movie:
http://www.shebloggedbynight.com/200...gine-1930.html
That airplane the girl is riding in and on has extensible VTOL
lift/hover fans in its wings. The people in the strange clothes are
Martians,
Traffic control in the future looks like something straight out of "The
Fifth Element":
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s...stimagine1.jpg
....with traffic officers in flying platforms.
The whole "Space" section of "Modern Mechanix" is a ball to go through
for the old spaceship designs:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/category/space/
Even Goddard had his off days:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/...e-outer-space/


Pat