{"id":630,"date":"2015-04-15T13:34:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randommedia.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:31:08","slug":"hollywoods-first-sci-fi-musical-just-imagine-1930-is-rediscovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/15\/hollywoods-first-sci-fi-musical-just-imagine-1930-is-rediscovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood&#8217;s First Sci Fi Musical, Just Imagine (1930) Is Rediscovered &#8211; Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Huffington Post\u00a0\u2013August\u00a02012<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\" style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Hot off the heels of 1927&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Metropolis<\/em>, a masterpiece of German expressionist filmmaking, and one of the silent movie era&#8217;s greatest achievements, Hollywood sought to cash in on a futuristic blockbuster of its own, with a curious twist. The result was the first science fiction talkie feature, 1930&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Just Imagine<\/em>, a pre-Busby Berkeley musical comedy blockbuster set in the distant world of 1980.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">With rare and unusual exceptions (<em>Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Young Frankenstein<\/em>), the science fiction musical comedy as a film genre, never really took off &#8212; but if it ever truly does, Just Imagine can be credited as its forefather.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/xaque-gruber\/hollywoods-first-sci-fi-m_b_1822772.html?\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/xaque-gruber\/hollywoods-first-sci-fi-m_b_1822772.html?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post\u00a0\u2013August\u00a02012 Hot off the heels of 1927&#8217;s\u00a0Metropolis, a masterpiece of German expressionist filmmaking, and one of the silent movie era&#8217;s greatest achievements, Hollywood sought to cash in on a futuristic blockbuster of its own, with a curious twist. The result was the first science fiction talkie feature, 1930&#8217;s\u00a0Just Imagine, a pre-Busby Berkeley musical comedy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/15\/hollywoods-first-sci-fi-musical-just-imagine-1930-is-rediscovered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hollywood&#8217;s First Sci Fi Musical, Just Imagine (1930) Is Rediscovered &#8211; Huffington Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7341,"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randommedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}