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Production sketch for the film Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond)
Otto Hunte German
Not on view
Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Moon was one of the first science-fiction films to present a semi-plausible vision of space flight. Written by Lang’s wife, Thea von Harbou, the screenplay imagines a rocket expedition to the moon, spiced up by a melodramatic love triangle and a villainous scheme to mine gold discovered in lunar caverns. This sketch by Hunte, a production designer, shows a space capsule on the lunar surface with the earth glowing beyond the horizon. The rocket scientist Hermann Oberth served as a consultant and was closely involved with the design of the massive multistage rocket that became one of the film’s most celebrated special effects.
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