{"id":4167,"date":"2013-08-26T20:48:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T20:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2013-08-26T20:48:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T20:48:53","slug":"libra-a-1978-movie-about-space-colonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4167","title":{"rendered":"Libra &#8211; a 1978 movie about space colonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4116\" target=\"_blank\">recently wrote<\/a> about what I considered the wrong-headed view of in-space colonies in the movie Elysium. A diametrical approach in politics and film-making quality is found in the obscure 1978 film <em>Libra<\/em> in which a large space habitat is depicted as a refuge of freedom from an increasingly oppressive earth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/projection3.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/libra-film-from-1978-about-space.html\" target=\"_d\">PROJECT ION: Libra &#8211; a film from 1978 about space colonies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/paleofuture\/2013\/02\/libra-the-21st-century-libertarian-space-colony\/\" target=\"_d\">Libra: The 21st Century (Libertarian) Space Colony &#8211; Paleofuture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avgeeks.com\/wp2\/libra-1978\/\" target=\"_d\">Libra (1978) | A\/V Geeks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is obviously a low budget, amateurish promotion of a political point of view but is still interesting and probably closer to the future than Elysium.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a segment of the film, which was made by an organization called World Research Inc.:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3jVxPCECjz8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And here is the full 39 minute version:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfY4djdAW_s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote about what I considered the wrong-headed view of in-space colonies in the movie Elysium. A diametrical approach in politics and film-making quality is found in the obscure 1978 film Libra in which a large space habitat is depicted as a refuge of freedom from an increasingly oppressive earth: PROJECT ION: Libra &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Libra &#8211; a 1978 movie about space colonies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space-films-and-videos","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-15d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4116,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4116","url_meta":{"origin":4167,"position":0},"title":"Space colonies will be far more than havens for the rich","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've long argued that large self-contained in-space colonies, like that popularized by the late\u00a0Gerard K. 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