Five Weeks in a Balloon (film) intended to exploit the hype of Fox’s own "Cleopatra" (1963). Allen's film is played much more for comedy than Juran's film. In Verne's novel and the Woolner Brothers' film, the balloon was named the "Victoria". Allen's film renames it the "Jupiter" with Allen giving the name "Jupiter II" to the spaceship on "Lost in Space". Filming took place in early 1962. It was the only film being made on the Fox lot at the time, due to costs incurred by "Cleopatra" (1963). The film was entirely shot in Hollywood except for some second unit shots in Africa. Allen wanted to
Jupiter Five its precise orbit by the builders of the Star Gate. "Jupiter Five" was the inspiration for "The Diamond Moon", the fifth novel in the "Venus Prime" series by Paul Preuss. Jupiter Five "Jupiter Five" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in the magazine "If" in 1953. It appeared again in Clarke's collection of short stories "Reach for Tomorrow", in 1956, and deals with the detection and exploration of an old spaceship from outside the Solar System. Professor Forster is a distinguished scientist on an expedition with the spacecraft "Arnold Toynbee". He determines