This film explores the cultural, technological and artistic components of the mid 50s that influenced the creation of Hollywoods first fully electronic film score.

 
References:

American Culture in the 1950s (2007) Martin Halliwell

Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage (2012) Kenneth Silverman

Encyclopedia of New York State (2005) Peter Eisenstadt

Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet: A Film Score Guide (2005) James Wierzbicki

Paranoia, the Bomb, and 1950s Science Fiction Films. (1999) Cynthia Hendershot

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 19101960 (2007) Ross Wetzsteon

Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition (2013) Christopher Shultis 

The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 19401995 (1994) Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell


Film Clips:
 
“Forbidden Planet” (1956) MetroGoldwynMayer 
 
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) Twentieth Century Fox 
 
“The War of The Worlds” (1953) Paramount Pictures 
 
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956) Walter Wagner Productions 
 
“The Thing from Another World” (1951) R K O Radio Pictures / Winchester Pictures Corp. 
 

‌YouTube Clips: 
 
Star Trek Transporter clip: 
   • Video  
 
Bebe Interview: 
   • Bebe Barron 1997  
 
Ben Burtt Demo: 
   • Ben Burtt's Sound Lab for "Forbidden ...   
 
Killers from Space (film) (1954) R K O Radio Pictures: 
   • KILLERS FROM SPACE | Free films from ...  
 
Phantom from Space (film) (1953) Planet Filmplays: 
   • Phantom From Space (1953) W.LEE WILDER   
 
The Greenwich Village Story (film) (1963) Lion International: 
   • The Greenwich Village Story  
 
The Bells of Atlantis (film) (1952) Ian Hugo: 
   • "Bells of Atlantis" (Ian Hugo, 1952)   
 
Footage of New York in the 50’s from British Pathe: 
   • Video   
 
Footage of Hollywood Boulevard (1957): 
   • Hollywood Blvd 1957   
 
Footage of Hollywood Premieres in the 50’s by Kinolibrary archive film collections: 
   • Video