Round 5: Tossup 1

In this film, people with the “Wandering Sickness” are shot by a chief who wears a Brodie helmet and furs. The producer’s brother designed a city in this film in which a sculptor demands an end to “progress” in a forum resembling a Hyatt. Large drills clear the earth for rooms of abstract pistons and engines in a montage in this film with contributions from László Moholy-Nagy. In this film, descendants of John Cabal and Pippa Passworthy pilot a craft shot from a (*) space gun above the underground city of Everytown. Wings Over the World pacifies the planet with a “Gas of Peace” in this collaboration between William Cameron Menzies and Alexander Korda. For 10 points, a 1933 novel inspired what look at dystopian and utopian futures by H.G. Wells? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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