Uploaded January 2009 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago

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You can download a 1.1GB mpeg file at archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.67908

The B&W footage from the 1938 German film "Weltraumschiff 1 Startet" (Rocketship 1 Launches) timeline shown below, was colorized and combined with an even larger amount of footage from the 1953 Soviet film "Polet na Lunu" (Rocket to the Moon) which eventually became the English language version of the animated short film entitled "The Space Explorers (1957)" we are more familiar with.


These minutes correspond to the timeline in the above download that was incorporated into The Space Explorers:

13:25 - 15:00
15:20 - 15:55
16:20 - 16:30
17:00 - 17:30
18:15 - 19:50
20:00 - 20:30
20:50 - 21:15
21:30 - 21:50

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As mentioned in the previous update, you can visit the website link below and then right-click the link at the top of the list where you see polet.na.luna.avi and save the Russian language version of the movie on your hard drive. The cat is now out of the bag. This was originally Soviet-era animation repackaged and dubbed in English by Fred Ladd and William Cayton.

multiki.arjlover.net/info/polet.na.lunu.avi.html


Below is a direct link:

multiki.arjlover.net/multiki/polet.na.lunu.avi