The Dream Pioneers Film Analysis

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The video, The Dream Pioneers: Visionaries of Science Fiction, is about young men who pioneered the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, which is a program that encourages visionary young people to openly share thought provoking ideas of exploring the solar system, extraterrestrials and other fantasies. These young people went on to change the world by inspiring one another to let their dreams run free. The film goes on to tell about some of these great men who contributed to the creation of science fictions writings and films. Forrest J. Ackerman is the fist man talked about in the video. He made his first contact with the Los Angeles Science Fiction League around 1935 to 1936. Ackerman is known as Mr. Sci-Fi to millions of people around the world. In 1932, he became a Sci-Fi films specialist, and published the first list of imagine movies, for example The Lost World, which was one of the many. He also received numerous amounts of recognition awards; some of them include the Science Fiction Award, Fantasy Award and the …show more content…
Sixty five years ago all of their dreams were only thoughts in their heads, now there is living proof that these men changed the world with their ideas and their brave thoughts that they wrote about. It had to take a lot of courage to write about the unknown and the unthinkable. The pioneer men stuck together and made their stories more than just a story. They made science fiction a way of life, and showed that dreams can come true. People predicted the end of science fiction according to the film; I believe there will never be an end to science fiction. As long as we have brave, strong willed, smart people like Ackerman, Bradbury and Harryhausen, who are not afraid to face the world with the things unknown to man kind, science fiction will always have a way of life in this

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