On this day, July 18, 1951, Klaatu and Gort landed on the Ellipse.

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Mon Jul 18, 2022: On this day, July 18, 1951, Klaatu and Gort landed on the Ellipse.

Sun Jul 18, 2021, 02:37 PM: On this day, July 18, 1951, Klaatu and Gort landed on the Ellipse.

Jul 18th 1951 - Klaatu finds a laundry ticket with this date on the suit he stole #DayTheEarthStoodStill

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Sat Jul 18, 2020: On this day, July 18, 1951, Klaatu and Gort landed on the Ellipse.

The timeline for that movie is way out of whack. For that matter, so is the trip that Klaatu and Patricia Neal took to get to Professor Barnhardt's home. The way they take makes no sense.

Early on, we are told it is a beautiful spring day in Washington. Later on in the movie, Mr. Carpenter checks a laundry receipt. There is a date on that receipt. Someone took that information and came up with Klaatu and Gort's landing day.

Take it with a grain of salt.

The Day the Earth Stood Still - timeline

1951

Wednesday 18th July: Klaatu arrives on Earth with Gort and a cautionary message to halt experiments with violence, atomic energy, and space travel. (Washington DC)

From my favorite movie:

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Prelude - Outer Space - Radar · Bernard Herrmann (conductor), Bernard Herrmann Ensemble

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951 Film Score)

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Let's show the first few minutes:

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) title sequence
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Title sequence from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I first saw The Day the Earth Stood Still on NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies, in about 1961. The elevator scene still terrifies me.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Power Outage
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The Day The Earth Stood Still
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Final moments from this 1951 classic B movie starring Michael Rennie.

Does All This Frighten You? - The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
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Barnhardt : Tell me, Hilda, does all this frighten you? Does it make you feel insecure? Hilda : Yes, sir, it certainly does. Barnhardt : That's good, Hilda. I'm glad.

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1. The first time I saw it was when it was shown on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.

It scared the living daylights out of me.

Sun Jul 18, 2021: The first time I saw it was when it was shown on

NBC Saturday Night at the Movies

NBC Saturday Night at the Movies was the first TV show to broadcast in color relatively recent feature films from major studios. The series premiered on September 23, 1961, and ran until October 1978, spawning many imitators. Previously, television stations had been only been able to show older, low-budget, black-and-white films that wouldn't be shown at movie theaters. In the late 1970s, competition from cable television and home video led to a decline in viewership.

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History

Background and early history

Further information: List of NBC Saturday Night at the Movies titles

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For its 1961–62 television season, NBC obtained the rights to broadcast 31 post-1950 movie titles from 20th Century Fox, although only 30 were actually telecast that season (one film, The Seven Year Itch, not being televised until the start of the 1963 season). On September 23, 1961, Saturday Night at the Movies premiered with the 1953 Marilyn Monroe–Lauren Bacall–Betty Grable film How to Marry a Millionaire, presented "In Living Color". Some of the other movies shown were The Day the Earth Stood Still (March 3, 1962) and No Highway in the Sky (March 24, 1962). (Having been filmed in Cinemascope, a Fox specialty from 1953 to 1967, many of these films had to be severely panned-and-scanned to fit the invariable full screen television aspect ratio of the time.)

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[marble falls]

2. Klaatu barada nikto ...

[usonian]

3. Loved it all.

Gort, Klaatu, Bernard Herrmann, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe, and the one man/machine disarmament team.