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   After four of the six Valley Forge domes are jettisoned and destroyed with nuclear charges, Lowell rebels and opts to save his ship's plants and animals. He kills Wolf, one of his crewmates who arrives to plant explosives in his favorite dome, and his right leg is seriously injured in the process.

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   Purchase Silent Running on digital and stream instantly or download offline. As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes.

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4. www.bbc.com › culture › articleSilent Running: The sci-fi that predicted modern crises - BBC

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   Silent Running: The sci-fi that predicted modern crises. 15 February 2021. By Lewis Gordon, Features correspondent. Alamy. (Credit: Alamy) Released in 1972, Silent Running was a kitsch take on...

5. gizmodo.com › 50-years-later-silent-running-isSilent Running Retro Review: Still Terrifying After 50 Years

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   Mar 14, 2022 · Everyone working on the Valley Forge is there to preserve the nature on board. That’s the job. But when they’re given an order to blow it up, for no apparent reason, three of them are fine ...

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7. musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog › 2019/08/23 › retroRetro-Musings: 1972’s “Silent Running” is a space odyssey ...

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   Aug 23, 2019 · With little redressing, the vast cargo bays, main bridge and claustrophobic corridors of the ship make convincing stand-ins for the interiors of a futuristic space freighter. The USS Valley Forge was launched near the very end of World War 2, and served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars.

8. www.centauri-dreams.org › 2019/02/01 › in-wildnessIn Wildness is the Preservation of the World: ‘Silent Running ...

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   Feb 1, 2019 · Image: The biodomes attached to the converted commercial space freighter Valley Forge, housing the very last flora and fauna from the planet Earth.

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   Was the USS Valley Forge filmed in real life?

   • The USS Valley Forge CV-45 (1945-1970). Most of the Valley Forge spacecraft interiors were filmed aboard the real-life decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge (CV-45) which was berthed in Long Beach, California at the time.

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   What happened to the USS Valley Forge?

   • The USS Valley Forge was launched near the very end of World War 2, and served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars. The ship was ultimately consigned for scrap in October of 1971 (seven months after filming aboard the ship had completed). Freeman inspects the desert habitat dome of the spacecraft Valley Forge, in Saturnian space.

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   How long did it take to build the Valley Forge?

   • The model of the Valley Forge was 25 feet (7.6 m) long, and took six months to build from a combination of custom castings and the contents of approximately 800 prefabricated model-aircraft or tank kits.

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   Is Valley Forge anti-war?

   • There's perhaps a subtle anti-war sentiment hidden beneath the film's verdant greenery and sleek futurism, not just in its critique of nuclear weapons (used to destroy the last-remaining vegetation) but embodied in the set – that of the giant freighter called Valley Forge.

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10. filmstories.co.uk › features › silent-running-one-ofSilent Running | One of the most quietly influential films of ...

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    Nov 27, 2023 · Rather than build sets entirely from scratch, Trumbull used a decommissioned aircraft carrier – the USS Valley Forge, which inspired the ship’s name in the film – for the interiors. Trumbull also employed some of the miniature building and front projection techniques he used on 2001: A Space Odyssey to create his space sequences.