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“The Day the Earth Stood Still”

The movieThe Day the Earth Stood Still”(1951) was directed by Robert Wise.

It was based on a story by Harry Bates (“Farewell to the Master”) and starred Michael Rennie as Klaatu/Carpenter.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Credits and other details included in the Internet Movie Database (“imdb”) entry online at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of “The Day The Earth Stood Still” see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1992

Alnor, William M in his “UFO in the New Age” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 122 (in Chapter 7) of the Baker softcover edition.

1

1999

Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62 (in an entry entitled “Day The Earth Stood Still, The (Film)”), 220 (in an entry entitled “Science Fiction”) of the Virgin hardback edition.

2

1979

Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-70 (in Chapter 7) of the Dragon paperback edition.

3

1970

Baxter, John in his “Science Fiction in the Cinema” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 104-105, 107 (in Chapter 9), 217 (in the “Select Filmography”) of the Zwemmer softcover edition.

4

1979

Beckley, Timothy Green in “The Total UFO Story” (1979) (edited by Milt Machlin) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 283-284 (in Chapter 17, entitled “Flying Saucers In The Movies”) of the Dale paperback edition.

2

1996

Blundell, Nigel in his “World’s Most Amazing UFO Visits” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 191 of the Select softcover edition.

1

1979

Boyce, Chris in a list entitled “A Checklist of ETs in the Cinema” in his Extraterrestrial Encounter (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Appendix 1) of the David & Charles hardback edition, at page 152 of the 1980 revised NEL paperback edition.

1

1995

Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Complete Sightings Catalogue” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 42 (in Chapter 3) of the BCA hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Blitz hardback edition, and in the Barnes & Noble hardback edition published under the title “UFO: The Complete Sightings”).

1

1998

Budden, Albert in his “Electric UFOs: Fireballs, Electromagnetics and Abnormal States” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 168 (in Chapter 5) of the Blandford hardback edition.

1

2001

Bullard, Thomas E in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 523 (in an entry entitled “Science fiction and UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 511 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

2001

Bullard, Thomas E in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 628 (in an entry entitled “Science fiction and UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1999

Chambers, Paul in his “Life On Mars” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 201 (in Chapter 15) of the Blandford hardback edition.

1

2007

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 25, 26 (in Chapter 2) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition.

2

1989

Conroy, Ed in his “Report on Communion” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 195 (in Chapter 5) of the Avon paperback edition.

1

1995

Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63, 65, 66, 74 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

4

1996

Craft, Michael in his “Alien Impact” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 236-237 (in Chapter 12) of the St Martin’s Paperbacks paperback edition.

2

1985

Curran, Douglas in his “In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Deus Ex Machina”) of the updated 2001 Abbeville Press hardback edition.

1

2000

Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81 (in the entry entitled “Cold War, linked to UFO reports”), 98 (in the entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”), 372 (in the entry entitled “science fiction involving extraterrestrials, in films and on television”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition.

3

2003

Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”. The relevant entry is available online at: “http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/DayEarth.html

1

2001

di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 44, 46-47 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sci-Fi, Hokum and Barry Who? - The Golden Age of Science Fiction Movies”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition.

3

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 (in Chapter 4) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 263 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

1987

Haines, Richard in his “CE-5 : Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 326 (in Chapter 7) of the Sourcebooks softcover edition.

1

2000

Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 80 (in Chapter 3) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

1

2007

Harris, Paola in her “How does one speak to a ball of light?” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 89 (in Section 2) of the Author House softcover edition.

1

1972

Hartmann, William K in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 2) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition.

1

1987

Hopkins, Budd in his “Intruders – The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 192 (in Chapter 10) of the Random House hardback edition, at pages 276-277 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1991

Howe, Linda Moulton in an interview in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 79 (in Chapter 2) of the 2002 Group softcover edition.

1

2001

Hyland, Gary in his “Blue Fires: The Lost Secrets of Nazi Technology” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 177 (in Chapter 8) of the Headline hardback edition.

1

1975

Hynek, J Allen and Vallee, Jacques in their “The Edge of Reality” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 155 (in Chapter 5) of the Henry Regnery hardback edition.

1

1992

Jackson, Robert in his “UFOs” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Where it all started”) of the Smithmark hardback edition.

1

1998

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The Threat” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in Chapter 1), 104 (in Chapter 6), 216-217 (in Chapter 11) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition.

4

1975

Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in Chapter 5) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 113-114 of the Signet paperback edition.

1

1997

Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 135 (in Chapter 9) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

1

1994

Kossy, Donna in her “Kooks” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 221-222 (in Part 6, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Paul Laffoley: Third Generation Lunatic Fringe”) of the Feral House softcover edition.

2

2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S and Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 151 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 148 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

1

2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S and Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 181-182 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 650-651 (in an entry entitled “Waves (or Flaps), UFO”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 637 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 781 (in an entry entitled “Waves (or Flaps), UFO”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1999

Kurland, Michael in his “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 290 (in Chapter 28) of the Alpha Books softcover edition, and included a list entitled “Alien Inspired Movies” in Appendix E at pages 315-316.

2

1975

Lawson, Alvin H in “Thesis Antithesis” (1975) (edited by A D Emerson) at page 52 (in Part 1, in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Astronomers on UFOs: Reason or Rhetoric?”) of the AIAA paperbound edition.

1

1978

Le Marbe, Tauna in an article entitled “The Language of Klaatu: Linguistic Analysis”, Fantastic Films Issue Number 1 (1978.0400). Available online at: “http://www.dreamerwww.com/fanfilm/fanfilm2.htm

1

2005

Luckman, Michael in his “Alien Rock : The Rock ‘n’ Roll Extraterrestrial Connection” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41, 42 (in Chapter 1) of the Pocket Books softcover edition.

2

1962

Manas, John H in his “Flying Saucers and Space Men” (1962) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-63 (in Chapter 6) of the Zavallis softcover edition.

4

1998

Mannion, Michael in his “Project Mindshift” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 178-182, 186, 188 (in Chapter 6), 217 (in Chapter 8), 284 (in Chapter 11) of the Evans hardback edition.

9

1987

McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 31, 45 (in Chapter 3) of the Wiley softcover edition.

2

1963

Menzel, Donald and Boyd, Lyle in their “The World of Flying Saucers” (1963) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 (in Chapter 7) of the Doubleday hardback edition.

1

1996

Miller, David and Gatiss, Mark in their “They Came From Outer Space : Alien Encounters in the Movies” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 of the Visual Imagination softcover edition.

2

2003

Moffitt, John in his “Picturing Extraterrestrials : Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 285, 330 of the Prometheus hardback edition.

2

1977

Naha, Ed in his “Science Fiction Aliens - Starlog Photo Guidebook” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in the unnumbered section entitled “Motion Pictures”) of the Starlog softcover edition.

2

1998

Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 49 (in Chapter 4) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition.

1

1997

Patton, Phil in his “Travels in Dreamland” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157, 158 (in Chapter 11) of the Orion Media hardback edition.

2

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-51 of the Smithsonian hardback edition (Chapter 4, “The Myth Defined” – in part of a section entitled “Flying Saucers and Hollywood”), 106 (Chapter 7, “The Contactee Era” – in part of a section entitled “The Contactee Myth” ) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at pages 59-60, 129 of the Berkley paperback edition.

3

1977

Peters, Ted in his “UFOs-God's Chariots?: Flying Saucers in Politics, Science & Religion” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-35 (in Chapter 2) of the John Knox hardback edition.

3

2002

Pflock, Karl in “Shockingly Close to the Truth!” (2002) (by James Moseley and Karl Pflock) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in the Karl Pflock’s Prologue) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

1

1997

Randle, Kevin D and Estes, Russ in their “Faces of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 82 (in Part 2) of the Fireside softcover edition.

1

1985

Randles, Jenny and Warrington, Peter in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 131 (in Chapter 10) of the Blackwell hardback edition.

1

1988

Randles, Jenny in her “Abduction“ (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43-44 (in Chapter 3), 79 (in Chapter 5) of the Hale hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Headline paperback edition).

2

1997

Randles, Jenny in her “Alien Contact – The First Fifty Years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in the chapter entitled “1951”) of the Collins and Brown hardback edition.

1

1999

Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a pages 124, 125 (in Part 4) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

2

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 219 (in Part 2, “The UFO Evidence”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

1

1957

Reeves, Bryant and Reeves, Helen in their “Flying Saucer Pilgrimmage” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 158-159 (in Chapter 22) of the Amherst Press hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Amherst Press softcover edition).

2

1984

Rimmer, John in his “The Evidence for Alien Abductions” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 55 (in Chapter 2) of the Aquarian softcover edition.

1

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 2 (in an entry entitled “acoustical effects”), 54-55 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”), 111 (in an entry entitled “intervention”) of the MJF hardback edition.

4

1997

Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65, 69 (in the Introduction), 177-184 (in Chapter 3) of the Frog softcover edition.

10

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 79 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”) of the Corgi softback edition.

1

1979

Sagan, Carl in his “Broca’s Brain” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 179 (in Chapter 9) of the Coronet paperback edition.

1

2001

Shermer, Michael in his “The Borderlands of Science” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in Chapter 3) of the Oxford University Press hardback edition.

2

1998

Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112, 121 (in Chapter 6) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition.

2

1978

Siegel, Richard and Suares, Jean-Claude in their “Alien Creatures” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68, 73 (in Chapter 2), 102, 103, 108-109 (in Chapter 4) of the Reed softcover edition.

6

1979

Simon, Armando in “UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist” (1979) (edited by Richard F Haines) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 49, 51 (and included at page 53 in a list of science fiction films with themes of either visitors from space, or travelling to space or both) (in Chapter 3) of the Scarebrow Press hardback edition.

2

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “Fifty Years of UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 31 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “1947-1957”) of the Boxtree hardback edition.

1

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 239 (in Chapter 14) of the Millenium paperback edition.

1

1994

Spencer, John in his “Gifts of the Gods?” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 34, 36-39 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin paperback edition.

5

1989

Spencer, John in his “Perspectives“ (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 178 and 182-183 (in Part 5(c)) of the Futura paperback edition.

3

1991

Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 93 (in an entry entitled “Day the Earth Stood Still, The”), 270, 271 (in an entry entitled “Science Fiction and UFOs”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at pages 105-106, 318 of the Headline paperback edition.

1

1995

Strieber, Whitley in his “Breakthrough“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 213 (in Chapter 16) of the Harper Collins hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition) at page 223 of the Harper Spotlight paperback edition.

1

1978

Tompkins, Bolyston in “Alien Creatures” (1978) (by Richard Siegel and Jean-Claude Suares) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12, 18, 19-20, 34, 35 (in the Introduction) of the Reed softcover edition.

6

2004

Tonnies, Mac in his “After the Martian Apocalypse” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 262 (in Chapter 12) of the Paraview Pocket Books softcover edition.

1

1991

Ware, Donald M in an interview in “UFOs And The Alien Presence: Six Viewpoints” (1991) (Edited by Michael Lindemann) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 196 (in Chapter 6) of the 2002 Group softcover edition.

1

1992

Watson, Nigel and Slade, Darren in their “Supernatural Spielberg” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 3) of the Valis softcover edition.

2

1987

Watson, Nigel in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 333-334 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 5.4, entitled “The Day Flying Saucers Invaded the Cinema”).

2

1997

Watson, Nigel in “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (by Paul Devereux and Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39, 40 (in Chapter 3) of the Blandford softcover edition.

2

 

 

Other Material

Bates, Harry “Farewell to the Master”, Astounding Stories, 1940.1000. Story available online at: http://www.dreamerwww.com/master/master1.htm

For discussion of “Farewell to the Master” see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

2001

di Fate, Vincent in his “The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Sci-Fi, Hokum and Barry Who? - The Golden Age of Science Fiction Movies”) of the Paper Tiger hardback edition.

1

1997

Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 177, 183 (in Chapter 3) of the Frog softcover edition.

2

 

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