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Public domain redux

The film's on the Internet Archive and is linked again. I still think this is dubious - the only verification that it is in the public domain is a user on the Archive's forum. --Jtalledo (talk) 11:21, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

year

According to IMDb its from 1958. However IMDb use to state it from 1959. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.94.251.190 (talk) 03:28, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Rating

According to our article X rating, "One notable film to get this rating in the UK was the US film Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), later re-rated PG." If this is true, shouldn't it be mentioned here? There doesn't seem to really be anything at all about the film's contemporary reception, which seems strange for a film article. Heather (talk) 19:50, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

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Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1956 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Ed Wood and following a crew of aliens intent on resurrecting Earth's dead as "ghouls". The film has been dubbed the "worst ever made": it features numerous continuity errors, visible crew and equipment, and footage of a recently deceased Bela Lugosi from earlier projects.Poster: Tom Jung; Restoration: Otto Jula
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While I'm aware that this movie is quite likely in the public domain, the section on it's copyright is entirely based on original research by an unreliable source (an Internet Archive discussion thread, of all things). This either needs better sourcing, to go away, or to be phrased far less 'authoritatively'. Reventtalk 00:52, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

@Jtalledo: Pinging the last person who brought this up, from the talk page archive. Reventtalk 00:54, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

The copyright section added by User:Yann is from an anonymous post ("User Video-Cellar") on a message forum on Internet Archive -- it is not reliable. -- GreenC 22:27, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

We do have secondary sources describing this film as being in the public domain. In a review published by Home Media Magazine in April 2012, John Latchem described this film as "a 50-year-old public domain movie". In an article entitled "'Plan 9ish' plots comic domination of Vortex" published in the Albuquerque Journal on Oct 12, 2003, David Steinberg wrote Jeffrey Hudson, who was then directing a stage production based on the film, said : "I took the screenplay of the Ed Wood movie, which is in the public domain, and I didn't change a word." An article published by The Times of London on August 13, 2005, describes some of the public domain films available ar Internet Archive (yes ), including "Ed Wood's terrible classic Plan 9 From Outer Space". In an article published by The Oregonian on May 28, 2009 and entitled "Live music adds polish to 'Plan 9'", John Foyston writes of the "public-domain stock footage that undoubtedly made perfect sense to the fevered mind of Edward D. Wood". In an article published by Tribune Business News on Sept 13, 2013 and entitled "Roanoke plays part in campy remake of Ed Wood's terrible classic 'Plan 9'", on the preview of a new film by John Johnson, Mike Allen wrote Johnson "discovered the original "Plan 9" had fallen into the public domain". See also Ed Wood, Mad Genius: A Critical Study of the Films by Rob Craig [1] and The Art of the Movies by Nicolae Sfetcu [2]. — Racconish ☎ 22:33, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

This section is for discussing inclusion of the CC video link, which has been removed, per WP:EL which states the burden is on the person wanting to include an external link. -- GreenC 00:21, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Casting

Why is the flying saucer under casting? I'd move it myself, but I'm not sure where to put it. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:55, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

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Narrator

Narrator Criswell is listed as "uncredited", yet his on-screen introduction is clearly headed "Criswell Predicts", so it's not as if his name doesn't appear in some context, and presumably at least some contemporary viewers would have recognised his name and style from his television shows. Lee M (talk) 00:45, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

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Grammatical error in the picture in Home video part?

"The top image was composed for widescreen, the bottom is military stock footage that was not."

I find this sentence hard to understand. "That was not..." what came after it?

If I understood it correctly, you should add "while" after the comma, or add new information after "that was not." SeanTVT (talk) 15:34, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

The Kelton Trilogy

Plan 9 can be considered a sequel to Wood’s earlier film Bride of the Monster (1955) due to the fact that Paul Marco’s cop character Kelton appears in both films; he also appears in Wood’s follow-up to Plan 9, Night of the Ghouls (1958) along with other characters from Bride. Thus, the three films can be said to inhabit the same cinematic universe, and are known among Wood aficionados as the “Kelton Trilogy”.

Jaguar padding by - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:11, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Ask for a slice, and sometimes you get a loaf! Thanks @LuckyLouie: - the (now) sourced content has been restored. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 23:09, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
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