are there plans online of the forbidden planet house?
They are now as I have scanned them an uploaded them to my Photobucket™ account (krellday). This is a huge file — 8 Mb!
The true scale relationship of the House set, the tunnel set and the Lab set:
Some adjustments have to be made in the Krell arches as different sizes were used on the sets. The various Krell arch sizes:
The shuttle car entrance:
The power unit viewer entrance:
Comparison of all of the arches:
BONUS!
For those who have
Me TV and watch
Adam-12, did you know that Sgt. McDonald was in
Forbidden Planet? He played one of the crewmen:
I still remember seeing Forbidden Planet for the first time at the Egyptian Theatre in LaLaLand. THIS was the size of the screen:
Can you imagine being in the front rows?!
ADDITIONAL BONUS!
Here are some additional sketches for sets that were never built from an exhibition at Aéroport de Paris-Orly a number of years ago.
The exhibition consisted of photographs and sketches by a collector who obtained them at the M-G-M auction in the early 1970s. The sketches were copies that he inverted the picture (instead of black lines on white paper, white lines on black paper). The pictures were placed on the web but have since disappeared and were, unfortunately, small.
I’ve corrected these to the best of my ability.
The info on these are from Bill Malone.
This first sketch is a concept by Arthur Lonergan for what was to be Krell Lab # 3.
Krell Lab # 2 was used as the main control room of the
Icarus XB-1 in the Czeckoslovakian movie
Ikarie XB-1 (1963) but better known to Americans as
Voyage to the End of the Universe (1964). These were bought from M-G-M and altered with the addition of the chairs with the lighted support columns.
This lab is where Dr. Morbius first detected and communicated with the
C-57-D.
This is the stage layout for the exterior set of the
C-57-D showing some of the rocks, and the fence. The gap at the top is where they planned for Cookie to meet Robby for his consignment of booze. At the bottom is where the gate for the fence was supposed to be when the fence was going to be a simple electrified wire fence.
At an earlier stage of the
Fatal Planet They were thinking in terms of a rocketship and planned to have this instrument called a “Planetary Transit”. It was replaced by the coeloscope (the eyepieces Cdr. Adams looked into during landing). This is curious because a coeloscope is an astrogational instrument that brings the image of 3 stars together for position determination.
These last 3 sketches are of the planned engine room set. This first shows the cooling vanes of the Thompson rings. (This is a form of thermoelectric cooling first discovered by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (AKA Lord Kelvin, of whom absolute temperatures are named after) in 1851.)
This one shows the Thompson cooling rings.
This is the interesting one. Originally the ship was going to be controlled entirely from the engine room. They even got so far as to plan this layout of the controls. The main reactor is the circle in the middle (shown in the movie as part of the pedestal). The 4 long cylinders are the secondary reactors.
Blurry as they are they are the only references to these plans that either Bill or I have. If any members can trac down better pictures it would be greatly appreciated.
