Stuff I Like: France

Monday, May 16, 2011

First Vacation on the Moon / Premieres Vacances Sur La Lune (1967)

OK as promised your "First Vacation on the Moon". This is a very interesting French book that seems to have been published using photographs from a space flight movie of the time. I will welcome any corrections to my guesses since my French is very poor.

Heimer, Marc. Premières Vacances Sur La Lune. Paris: Presses de la Cité, #2 p., 32 cm. 1967

What makes it especially interesting to me is the photographs of a child visiting the Moon. This is very much like 'You Will Go to the Moon (1959) but with photographs of the Moon.

The other topic of interest is the Moonbase they visit. This is probably just the design from the film but it gives the book the sense of it being a visit to a real place.

I have not been able to find out very much about the book but did find this quote:

'In 1967, Mark Heimer, inspired by images from the film 'Luna' the Lennaoutchfilm, imagine the holidays out of the ordinary for a small boy in the 'First Holiday on the Moon' "

I have tried to find out more about 'Luna'. It may be the 1965 Russian film that was released in Europe as 'La Lune'

Having never seen the film I really like the models and details they used for the moonbase.

As a collector I get kind of blasé about having found all the books out there. I have dabbled in finding original books from other countries but having poor language skills has limited me to tripping across them. This one is an astrofuturism classic.