Packet 5: Tossup 17

The 808 State song “10x10” (“ten-by-ten”) is built around a sample of dialogue from this film by a character who declares, “man does not behold the face of the gorgon and live!” Helen Rose designed Hollywood’s first miniskirt for this movie, which Francisco Franco considered so scandalous that he banned it. Production designer Robert Kinoshita was uncredited for creating this film’s most (15[1])significant prop, which was inspired by his work on washing machines. Principles from Norbert Wiener’s book Cybernetics inspired this film’s score by the husband-and-wife team of (15[1])(*) Bebe (10[1])and Louis Barron, (10[1])which was the first (10[1])ever fully electronic score. (10[1])This film features an animated sequence depicting a roaring red monster that is a manifestation of a man’s subconscious “id.” (10[1])The poster of this loose adaptation of The Tempest depicts a woman in a yellow dress carried in the arms of Robby (10[2])the Robot. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])name this (10[1])1956 sci-fi film set on Altair, a foreign world. ■END■ (10[2])

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