Academy Award winner Dennis Muren offers a memory of 1955: “pal Bruce and I hurried into the Hawaii Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to see a new color movie, "Conquest of Space". We were eight years old. ... ‘Reeling’ by on the giant screen, we saw a giant circular space station in orbit one hundred [sic miles up, seemingly in orbit above me over Hollywood. Wow! And that was just the beginning. Awesome rocket ships of various shapes flew about. ... Finally, the movie ended with a skillful landing and joyful liftoff from the desolate red surface of Mars. ...”