Masterpiece Selection Resonating with the Themes of Cosmic Journey:...

Dir: Roy William Neill

An inventor succeeds in making contact with Mars via television.

Dir: Ashley Miller

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Sky Splitter perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

After years of testing, a professor who is intent on building a ship that can travel into space finally succeeds and finishes a working model. After he launches himself into space, he realizes that he had forgotten to take into account that aerodynamic controls have no effect in outer space. He drifts through space and lands on a planet 50 light years away, and proceeds to build a giant telescope with which he can see Earth.

Dir: Rasanjana Madhusanka

Yahangala Z50: The Classified Mission In 2050, the R2X Black-Ops team, led by Hansa and Rasanjana, enters the "Yahangala Z50" abyss to recover a lethal extraterrestrial cell. In a zone where physics fails and time warps, they must secure this infinite energy source-or witness the end of the world. Coming May 28 to Jana 13.

Dir: Harry Piel

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Yahangala Z50: Alien Village perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Harry has to rescue the beautiful daughter of an inventor from the clutches of a madman and makes unpleasant encounters with sparking robots and mysterious submarines.

Dir: Urban Gad

A loose and unofficial silent adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau.

Dir: Eugenio Testa

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Rivalen perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The Italian adaptation of the famous novel about Dr. Frankenstein and his monstrous creation.

Dir: Wallace Worsley

In return for money and medical aid for his invalid mother, struggling author Robert Sandell agrees to subject himself to experiments by Dr. Lamb, who claims he is trying to extend the human lifespan. Despite warnings from the doctor's wife and a hunchbacked assistant, Robert allows himself to be strapped to an operating table, whereupon he learns the true nature of the surgeon's experiments: To prove the theory of evolution by devolving his human subjects into an approximation of their simian ancestors. However, before Dr. Lamb can proceed, the hunchback un-cages another victim, an ape-man, who crushes Dr. Lamb to death.

Dir: Harry A. Pollard

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Island of the Lost perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.

Dir: James W. Horne

When he is jilted, Alan Remington, the son of a wealthy Washington politician, falls into a state of deep depression. On the advice of Professor Hollister, from whom he is purchasing a death ray, the elder Remington attempts to divert Alan by providing him with excitement. At this time, a gang of foreign agents, led by Darwin Kershaw, Remington's secretary, kidnap both the inventor and his daughter, Carolyn, and steal the death ray, but not before the resourceful girl has thrown the control key to the ray out of the window, where it lands in Alan's car. The conspirators attempt to regain the key, but they are mockingly foiled on several occasions by Alan, who thinks they are men hired by his father to jolt him out of his depression. Alan eventually realizes that the men are seriously trying to kill him, and he sets out to bring them to justice. Alan prevents the agents from destroying several naval gunboats, rescues the Hollisters, and rounds up the aliens, handing them over to the F. B. I.

Dir: André Deed

The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine.