Wanted to post this amusing program on the Sputnik annniv., but haven't been able to remember the title (short & obvious as it is) for love or money for many yrs. Nor would any amount of Googling unearth it; then a day or so ago the exact title suddenly popped into what's left of my mind & voilà! Promotional material:
The Satellite Sky unfolds without narration or interviews to paint an impressionistic portrait of the dawn of the Space Age. The film sheds new light on how the race to the moon was an outgrowth of the Cold War military rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Space Race became perhaps the most perfect expression of this rivalry: the ultimate propaganda vehicle for projecting the superiority of one society of the other. Plans for orbiting battle stations, trips to the moon, Mars and beyond, and the creation of state-sponsored heroes (spacemen) were all part of the panorama of the time. Using obscure archival material from a wide variety of sources including Soviet and American science fiction films, government propaganda films, US Air Force films, newsreels, NASA footage and old television shows, The Satellite Sky takes an ironic look at the imagery of the space age and examines the race as it was seen at the time.
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