The Ectoplasmic "Xenomoph" in "It Came From Outer Space" 1953

It Came from Outer Space was director Jack Arnold's first science fiction film for Universal studios. It Premiered in 1953 and was the first 3-D film on wide screen with stereoscopic sound. Arnold said..."I think science fiction films are a marvelous medium for telling a story, creating a mood, and delivering whatever kind of social message should be delivered." Based on "The Meteor" by Ray Bradbury, the film features a "crash landing" near a small town in the Arizona desert of a spaceship that looks like a meteor. John Putnam, an astronomer played by Ricard Carlson is the lone witness, but because a landslide has covered the spaceship in a crator, the townspeople refuse to believe him. THE ALIENS IN THIS FILM ARE CALLED "XENOMORPHS" AND DEPICTED AS ECTOPLASMIC BEINGS WHO ARE ABLE TO ASSUME THE IDENTITIES OF OTHERS, BUT IN THEIR NATURAL STATE THEY LOOK LIKE GIANT, PEELED EYEBALLS FLOATING INSIDE PLASTIC GLOBES, lunging out of the screen and into the audience in 3D. Shots of the townspeople are from the point of view of the aliens, thus the people appear on screen through a shimmering eye like bubble. The Aliens assume the identities of the townspeople so they can repair their ship unnoticed but they mean no harm. They just want to fix their spaceship and be on their way after returning the citizens to their original forms. That take other identities because they are afraid of what humans will do to them. Eventually the town's people catch on and attempt to destroy the aliens, but Putnam protects the aliens in the final confrontation, explaining... "THEY DON'T TRUST US BECAUSE WHAT WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND WE DESTROY" AND AT THE VERY END, THE TOWNS PEOPLE GATHER AROUND PUTNAM WHO THEN SAYS... "IT WASN'T THE RIGHT TIME FOR US TO MEET, BUT THERE WILL BE OTHER NIGHTS, OTHER STARS FOR US TO WATCH, THEY'LL BE BACK" I find all of this fascinating for several reasons but the thing that inspired this post was this image...of... An Ectoplasmic "Xenomorph" !!! [b]Created 26 years before I even falsely assumed and for 33+ years now that Brandywine and Ridley Scott Invented that term.[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1icfos3.jpg[/img] Here are some other stills from that film. [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1itcos1.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1icfos2.jpg[/img]