![]() In 1899, Arnold Bedford lives in a romantic spot, Cherry Cottage, next to a canal lock in Dymchurch. The UN representatives question him about the Moon, and he tells them his story, which is shown in flashback. Bedford's repeated lunar claims are dismissed as senile delusion. The home's staff do not let him watch television reports of the Moon expedition because, according to the matron, it "excites him". However, they discover a Union Jack flag on the surface and a note mentioning Katherine Callender, which claims the Moon for Queen Victoria.Īttempting to trace Callender in the records office in Dymchurch in Kent, south-east England, the UN authorities discover that she has died, but that her husband Arnold Bedford is still living in a nursing home known as "The Limes". A multi-national group of astronauts in the UN spacecraft land, believing themselves to be the first lunar explorers. In 1964, the United Nations has launched a rocket flight to the Moon. The film was made five years prior to man first landing on the Moon. ![]() ![]() Ray Harryhausen provided the stop-motion animation effects, which include the Selenites, giant caterpillar-like "Moon Cows" and the large-brained Grand Lunar. Wells' 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon. ![]() The film, distributed by Columbia Pictures, is an adaptation by screenwriter Nigel Kneale of H. Schneer, directed by Nathan Juran, and starring Edward Judd, Martha Hyer and Lionel Jeffries. First Men in the Moon is a 1964 British science fiction film, produced by Charles H. ![]()
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