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The Tunnel [message #114444] Tue, 17 September 2013 15:21 Go to next message
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>Last weekend I saw the 1935 movie The Tunnel, also titled The Transatlantic
>Tunnel.  (It's a British remake of a 1933 German movie.  All prints of it
>were believed lost.)  For a 1930's sf movie, it wasn't that bad -- but there
>were some nice howlers.

>Like... you're digging a tunnel, depicted as about 30-40 feet in diameter,
>from London to New York.

>                          Even if the rock has
>only 2.5 times the density of water, that's ONE BILLION metric TONS of spoil
>(some miles below sea level, too) that you have to dispose of... this was
>simply ignored!

> Mark Brader


And just think of their surprise when they tunnel through the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge!  Ever tried tunneling through an *active* volcano?

-- 

". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch."
Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95c!ran)
AT&T-Bell Labs
Re: The Tunnel [message #115587 is a reply to message #114444] Wed, 18 September 2013 18:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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From: Mark Purtill 

If /The Tunnel/ was made in 1935, it has no relation to Harry Harrison's
/A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah/, (aka /Tunnel thru the Depths/ or
something like that), since that was written much later.  I have the
original magazine version and while I don't remember the exact year, it
was in /Analog/ (not /Astonishing/), so its some time since the name
change.  At a guess, maybe the early seventies?

Mark
Re: The Tunnel [message #115660 is a reply to message #114444] Wed, 18 September 2013 18:10 Go to previous message
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 19:26:51 EST
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Summary: No connection between B. Kellermann and H. Harrison books

Daniel P Faigin (ucla-cs!faigin) quotes me:
> >Last weekend I saw the 1935 movie The Tunnel, also titled The Transatlantic
> >Tunnel.  ...

And asks:
> Does anyone know if this movie is related in any way, shape, or
> form to the Harry Harrison book, 
> 		"A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!"

Yes, I do.  No, it isn't.

Harrison's book (which also has an alternate title, "Tunnel Through the
Deeps" ("Deep"?)) was written in about 1965 or 1970, and is set about an
alternate history where the US did not leave the British Empire.

On the other hand, the movie in question is based on a 1913 book in German
by B. Kellermann and is set in the ordinary future.  (In the movie, the
Channel Tunnel had been opened in 1940, and the scene was sometime later.)

For those who missed the original article: the movie is interesting
mainly as a curiosity; all prints were thought lost, so it's rare.

Mark Brader
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