Jun 252011
Neat! Now, launch the damend thing. As in, make this into a TV series.
[vimeo 25088498]
It’s a bit distressing that “The Rocketeer” was released TWENTY years ago. Damn, I’m old.
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Way too expensive, but they would be a ball to have:
http://www.monstersinmotion.com/cart/sci-fi-as-in-science-fiction-item-listt-c-9_188/rocketeer-helmet-prop-replica-model-hobby-kit-p-4449
http://www.monstersinmotion.com/cart/costumes-item-list-0-99-a-z-c-90_155_158/rocketeer-rocketpack-prop-replica-model-hobby-kit-p-6379
Although everyone calls it a rocket belt in the movie, from the way it’s shown working it’s a jet engine with twin combustion chambers and the compressor mounted between them.
No gays. No blacks. No differently-abled people. Fighting crime, spies is elitist and typical of imposed white cultural and political structures. “Bad guys” not given equal opportunity to present point of view. Depiction of gratuitous use of carbon/greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels. 1930s/1940s setting glamorizes white/male/heterosexual privilege era, sanitized of the suffering of historically disadvantaged groups. Positive depiction of “entrepreneurial” capitalist system without presenting the concomitant suffering of exploited working, non-white, and/or female classes. Male child depicted as playing with typically action-oriented toys instead of in nurture-based play. Rescue of child indicates heterosexist emphasis on breeding as a positive good. Depiction of technology as “beneficial” typical of phallocentric/exploiter value structures. Violence depicted as a solution to conflict.
Did I mention no gays?
If you wanted it, you could have one *hell* of a future at the university of your choice.
Ugh. No, I detest that sort of talk. I like the white,male, heterosexual, technophilic worldview myself.
I never could understand why the Zeppelin was named the “Luxembourg”‘ rather than say the “Brandenburg”.
And about that “no gay” part…you did notice that Neville Sinclair seemed to have a lot of female clothes hanging up in his closet that he could give to Jenny to wear. 😀
I had forgotten how fun that movie was.
It was a lot of fun seeing the replica Gee-Bee fly.
I’d watch it…Oh BTW Scott, if you sold a reproduction of the blueprint for the Cirrus X-3 pack (as seen in the movie), I’d snap it up in a heatbeat.
> I’d snap it up in a heatbeat.
While I’m *sure* I don’t know what a “heatbeat” is, I’m also incredibly leery of selling reproductions of Disney stuff. The Mickey Mouse Assault Lawyers are, I understand, quite vicious. Them and the Lucasfiulm Stormlawyers are pretty diligent and quite well armed.
James has a good idea. I’d buy a set of the blueprints, too. But I do understand why you’re wary. I’m not sure if Disney still has the rights to the Rocketeer or if they’ve reverted back to the original creators.
The jet pack was a wonderful idea though.
>While I’m *sure* I don’t know what a “heatbeat” is, I’m also incredibly leery of >selling reproductions of Disney stuff. The Mickey Mouse Assault Lawyers are, I >understand, quite vicious. Them and the Lucasfiulm Stormlawyers are pretty >diligent and quite well armed.
True, you’d need a few SEALs around if you were planning to take them on. 🙂
Look what I found online:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jv-dS4NpxPE/SgDxHLCchCI/AAAAAAAAEcw/AnA-1W_cDmo/s1600-h/Peevy%27s+Rocketeer+Schematics+%2804-09%29.JPG
Huh. I recalled the blueprints being actual blueprints. But it’s been many a year since I’ve seen the movie.
Fuel supply looks too small to keep it in the air for long, but the whole thing is a “Art Moderne”/”Streamline” artistic design masterpiece.
Bel Geddes must have dreamed of the ‘Hughes Cirrus” as he slept.
There’s a close-up of part of the plans here, showing that it can do 292 mph at some power setting or altitude:
http://www.therpf.com/f9/rocketeer-rocket-pack-schematics-57183/
And apparently uses a exhaust bleed to drive a supercharger which pressurizes the air going to the combustion chambers and to power the fuel pump.
A lot more thought went into this than most movie prop plans.