Let’s be honest. You cannot shoot a capsule full of people out of a cannon and survive. The G-force would turn the crew into jam. The filmmakers knew this. They didn't care.
This is pre-NASA. This is pre-Sputnik panic (just barely). This is a film made when we assumed space travel would be an extension of artillery science. The aesthetic is Victorian-industrial. Rivets. Steam. Gunpowder. journey 3: from the earth to the moon movie
His solution? Stop shooting at each other and start shooting at the moon. Let’s be honest
April 14, 2026
What struck me most during this journey was the silence. When the cannon fires, it’s loud. But once they leave the atmosphere, the film goes quiet. The hiss of oxygen. The hum of the hull. In 1958, they imagined space as a library, not an ocean. The filmmakers knew this