Mars And Beyond
- Studio
- Walt Disney Pictures
- Distributor
- Buena Vista Film Distribution Company
Synopsis
Using comical animation, a narrator discusses the potential for life on Mars. A fleet of huge umbrella-shaped spacecraft (from a large human expedition) utilizing ion propulsion gently spiral outward from Earth before heading off to the Red Planet.
Characters
Martians, Earth Woman, Monsters.
Characters (Live Action): Walt Disney, Dr. E. C. Slipher, Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, Wernher von Braun
Characters (Live Action): Walt Disney, Dr. E. C. Slipher, Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, Wernher von Braun
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Ward Kimball
Producing
- Producer
- Ward Kimball
- Production Supervisor
- Ben Sharpsteen
Writing
- Writer
- Ward Kimball, William Bosche
- Cartoon Story
- Charles (Chuck) Downs, Con Pederson, John W. Dunn
Voices
- Voice
- Clarence 'Ducky' Nash (Donald Duck), Paul Frees (Narrator)
- Vocal Talent (Live Action)
- Walt Disney (Himself, Dr. E. C. Slipher (Himself), Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger (Himself), Wernher von Braun (Himself)
Music
- Music
- George Bruns
Animation
- Animator
- Ward Kimball
Art Department
- Space Paintings
- Bill (William) Layne, J. Gordon Legg
- Models
- Wathel Rogers
Visual Effects
- Special Effects
- Eustace Lycett
Editing
- Editor
- Lionel A. Ephraim, Lloyd L. Richardson
Sound
- Sound
- Robert O. Cook
Crew
- Technical Advisors
- E.C. Slipher, Ernst Stulinger, Wernher von Braun
Production notes
Originally broadcast on the "Disneyland" television show.
Combined animation and experimental photography.
This was the last of three "science-factual" color shorts for the popular "Disneyland" television series; "Man in Space" and "Man and the Moon" were the first two.
"Mars and Beyond" was broadcast shortly after Sputnik I. It was also released theatrically in 1957, but was not shown on the big screen again for over 40 years.
E.C. Slipher, an astronomer from the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, joined Wernher von Braun and Ernst Stulinger (who had been advisors on Ward Kimball's other two science-fiction shorts) as technical consultants on the film.
After seeing "Mars and Beyond," a fascinated Walt Disney declared, "Where do you get this stuff???"
Re-edited into the 1957 short "Cosmic Capers."
Donald Duck is seen in a cameo among a crowd of monsters during a chase scene.
Combined animation and experimental photography.
This was the last of three "science-factual" color shorts for the popular "Disneyland" television series; "Man in Space" and "Man and the Moon" were the first two.
"Mars and Beyond" was broadcast shortly after Sputnik I. It was also released theatrically in 1957, but was not shown on the big screen again for over 40 years.
E.C. Slipher, an astronomer from the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, joined Wernher von Braun and Ernst Stulinger (who had been advisors on Ward Kimball's other two science-fiction shorts) as technical consultants on the film.
After seeing "Mars and Beyond," a fascinated Walt Disney declared, "Where do you get this stuff???"
Re-edited into the 1957 short "Cosmic Capers."
Donald Duck is seen in a cameo among a crowd of monsters during a chase scene.