Hollywood on the Moon – Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1938 Cover
A lunar film studio sprawls across the curved surface of the Moon as Hollywood brings its cameras and crew to the cosmos. Searchlights blaze across the lunar landscape while spacesuited technicians operate massive ray-cannons and movie equipment atop a vast crimson dome. A figure tumbles through the void in an energy beam. Below, rows of suited spectators watch the extraterrestrial production. Vivid pastel light beams cut through the star-black sky in this gloriously maximalist vision of retro-futurist showbiz.
Hollywood meets the Moon in an utterly deranged spectacle of searchlights, spacesuit extras, and ray-gun cameras. Only the Golden Age pulps could pitch 'lunar film studio' with a straight face and make it look this magnificent.
“PSES OF THE SUN By SIR ARTHUR S. EDDINGTON THRILLING WONDER STORIES 5¢ HOLLYWOOD ON THE MOON A Novelette of Tomorrow's Movies By HENRY KUTTNER THE DARK AGE A Future Science Tale By CLARK ASHTON SMITH THE INFINITE ENEMY A Novelette of A Lost Universe By JACK WILLIAMSON ILLING TION”
