Recall of Krell Amplifiers

No particular love for Krell, at least the Equipment. However, the Krell fictional race DO get my sympathy, based on what Morbiius said of them and how they perished.

Yes, indeed:

Dr. Edward Morbius: In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the meaning of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race disappeared in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground .... My poor Krell. After a million years of shining sanity, they could hardly have understood what power was destroying them.

I give up on the reference to Will!

Best,
-- Al :)

I think it was Altair IV. Forbidden Planet was based on Shakespeare's last play. The Theramin was supposedly played by putting your hands into the path some part of it and moving them to create different effects, or that was the story I read years ago. Only one woman ever became really good on it and they failed to record much if any of her playing, again according to the same article.

Disney gets a good deal of the credit for the movie, he loaned his special effects genus whose name was Ub Iwerks or something like that, to the production. They were beaten out for the special effects Oscar by the 10 Commandments, which won everything that year. They was robbed. I posted this but they didn't put it up, the secret word is "Tempest".

Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', about 1610.

Yes, Theramin is a non-contact instrument invented in about 1928 by Leon Theramin, a Russian. 2 hands control amplitude and frequency. BUT, as I was corrected in a previous post, the Theremin was NOT used in Forbidden Planet!
I think he disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Word on the street is he went back to his home planet.

You can buy modern SS versions, as kits, boards, or just schematics. However, even though I am a SS guy, I would prefer the Tube version....for nostalgia if no other reason. It'd look cool in the living room, too. Scare the &^%$ out of the cats!

I have always been told that Disney did the Mattes....Paintings on glass, used to provide the cool backgrounds in many scenes. A lost art courtesy of computer enhanced graphics.