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Post 1 of 6: Introduction

This is post 1 of 6 related posts which together make up our July 10, 2021, DIY, MonSFFA e-Meeting!

1) ZOOM CHAT OPENS RIGHT NOW!

We officially open today’s Zoom chat now, at 1:00PM, the exact same moment we’ve put up this first post of the afternoon. Our Zoom will run in parallel to the Web site-based content that will be presented throughout this e-meeting and will afford folk opportunity to catch-up, talk about the latest in sci-fi, discuss today’s presentations and ask questions directly of our presenters.

To join our Zoom session today, click below and follow the prompts: This Afternoon’s MonSFFA Zoom

If you’re not fully equipped to Zoom by computer, you can also join in by phone (voice only); in the Montreal area, the toll-free number to call is: 1-438-809-7799. If you’re from out of town, find your Zoom call-in number here: International Call-In Numbers

Also, have this information on hand as you may be asked to enter it:

Meeting ID: 831 5550 8837
Passcode: 456227

 

Summer Sci-Fi QUIZ Number 1

Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi famously filmed under the title Blue Harvest. Big-budget franchise movies in particular often use a false title or code name while in production so as to deter unwanted attention. Blue Harvest was supposedly a horror movie; fake marketing materials sported the slogan “Horror Beyond Imagination” and the production crew even wore Blue Harvest T-shirts! The idea was to throw off the scent any overly curious fans or nosy entertainment journalists eager to uncover spoilers and let the cat out of the bag. In this modern age of social media, especially, movie studios will go to great lengths in order to keep things a secret until a film is released.

Rival studios looking to pilfer plot twists, rip off a successful franchise and open a competing film first, or swipe a really cool title, are also thus deceived. So are any suppliers only too ready to overcharge when they know they’re dealing with the producers of a big-budget franchise like Star Wars rather than a run-of-the-mill horror movie production called Blue Harvest.

And sometimes, it’s simply that a final title has yet to be selected, and cast and crew labour under a “working title.”

Below is a list of 30 code names or working titles used by the producers of well-known genre movies. Can you name the actual film title to which each refers? We’ll reveal at least some of the answers in our Zoom get-together during the mid-meeting break, and list all of answers in our final post of the afternoon (5:00PM), for anyone who may have missed the live online chat.

  1. Monster from Beneath the Sea
  2. Star Beast
  3. Oliver’s Arrow
  4. A Boy’s Life
  5. Prime Directive
  6. Corporate Headquarters
  7. Rory’s First Kiss
  8. Magnus Rex
  9. Changing Seasons
  10. Wimpy
  11. Babysitter Murders
  12. House Ghosts
  13. Rasputin
  14. Frostbite
  15. Group Hug
  16. Watch the Skies
  17. Grand Tour
  18. Till Death, For Glory
  19. Artemis
  20. Caesar
  21. Genre
  22. Autumn Frost
  23. Red Sun
  24. Paradox
  25. Project 880
  26. Pacific Air Flight 121
  27. Incident on 57th Street
  28. How the Solar System Was Won
  29. Farewell Atlantis
  30. Yellow Harvest

3) TODAY’S MEETING: INTRODUCTION

We’ve got a busy, busy agenda, today, so we’ll get right to it!

Just real quick, suffice it to say that the inoculation programs across the land are unfolding quite successfully, and the country now stands at about 40 percent of Canadians fully vaxxed! Authorities expect to achieve stated vaccination goals well ahead of initial projections. Meanwhile, things are getting back to normal and many of the safety restrictions we’ve all been living with for over a year, now, have been relaxed or lifted.

As we gather online for this month’s virtual club meeting, we take a moment to encourage all MonSFFen, if they haven’t already, to book their second vaccine shot as soon as possible, and to please continue to take all necessary precautions in order to keep themselves and others as protected from the virus as can be. Even as many restrictions are removed, it is important that we not let up quite yet on those recommended safety protocols that do remain in place. The nasty variants, as always, a still a concern, but seem to be in check at the moment, which is good!

This is our 16th virtual MonSFFA meeting. The afternoon’s get-together will unfold right here on the club’s Web site over the course of the next few hours, beginning with this first post, and followed by subsequent posts at 1:30PM, 2:30PM, 3:00PM, and 4:00PM, with a concluding post at 5:00PM. All content will also be available concurrently on MonSFFA’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/MonSFFA), however, note that the interface best suited for taking in this meeting is this very Web site.

Today we welcome a special guest speaker via Zoom, local sci-fi cartoonist François Vigneault, author of the graphic novel Titan and the monthly comedic series Orcs in Space (click here to visit François’ Web site). We’ll also be looking at the actors who have portrayed Doctor Who over the decades, and talk Shakespeare in SF! All that and more over the next few hours!

As we cannot quite, with complete safety for all, yet assemble in larger numbers indoors, this July virtual meeting has been prepared especially for you, MonSFFA’s membership. Sit back, check out each of the afternoon’s posts, scroll down leisurely through the proffered content, and enjoy! And join our Zoom this afternoon, as well (see first item for details)!

Don’t forget to comment on what we’ve presented. Let us know what you think of specific topics or the meeting overall. Your input helps us to tailor these virtual meetings for maximum interest and enjoyment.

4) MEETING AGENDA

 In This Afternoon’s Virtual Meeting:

1:00PM, Post 1 of 6 (Introduction, Zoom Opens)

1) Zoom Chat Opens

2) Summer Sci-Fi Quiz Number 1

3) Today’s Meeting: Introduction

4) Meeting Agenda

5) Summer Sci-Fi Quiz Number 2

1:30PM, Post 2 of 6  (Who’s on First?)

6) Presentation: Doctor Who’s Who: Guide to the Doctors Before Who and After Who!

2:30PM, Post 3 of 6 (Break)

7) Mid-Meeting Break (Display Table, Raffle, Zoom Continues, What Are You Reading?)

3:00PM, Post 4 of 6 (Guest Speaker!)

8) A Zoom Conversation with Local Sci-Fi Cartoonist François Vigneault (Titan, Orcs in Space)! 

4:00PM, Post 5 of 6 (“And Thereby Hangs a Tale…”)

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5:00PM, Post 6 of 6 (Wrap-Up)

10) Answers to Our Summer Sci-Fi Quizzes!

11) Thank-You!

12) Membership Renewals

 

5) Summer Sci-Fi QUIZ Number 2:

 As sci-fi film fans know, Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner was based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Many if not most films are derived from a published work of fiction. And said work is not necessarily a full novel! Often, a short story or other short-form piece is all that’s needed to inspire a producer to make a movie.

Our second challenge to those of you joining us for this afternoon’s MonSFFA e-meeting is to correctly match the genre film (Blue List) to the work of short fiction upon which it was based (Beige List). Answers will be published later this afternoon, in the meeting’s closing post (5:00PM).

  1. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  2. Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
  3. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
  4. Target Earth (1954)
  5. Stand by Me (1986)
  6. Hellraiser (1987)
  7. The 10th Victim (1965)
  8. John Carpenter’s They Live (1988)
  9. The Beast Must Die (1974)
  10. Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
  11. Total Recall (1990)
  12. The Thing from Another World (1951)
  13. She Devil (1957)
  14. Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity (1987)
  15. Arrival (2016)
  16. The Turning (2020)
  17. Millennium (1989)
  18. Death Race 2000 (1975)
  19. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  20. Charly (1968)
  21. The Haunted Palace (1963)
  22. Maximum Overdrive (1986)
  23. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  24. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

A) “The Sentinel” (short story, Arthur C. Clarke, written 1948, first published as “Sentinel of Eternity,” 1951)

B) “There Shall Be No Darkness” (novelette, James Blish, 1950)

C) “The Hellbound Heart” (novella, Clive Barker, 1986)

D) “Air Raid” (short story, John Varley, 1977)

E) “The Adaptive Ultimate” (short story, Stanley G. Weinbaum, 1935)

F) “The Thought Monster” (short story, Amelia Reynolds Long, 1930)

G) “Deadly City” (novelette, Paul W. Fairman as Ivar Jorgensen, 1953)

H) “Trucks” (short story, Stephen King, 1973)

I) “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” (short story, Brian W. Aldiss, 1969)

J) “The Most Dangerous Game” (short story, Richard Connell, 1924)

K) “Story of Your Life” (novella, Ted Chiang, 1998)

L) “The Racer” (short story, Ib Melchior, 1953)

M) “The Body” (novella, Stephen King, 1982)

N) “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” (novella, H. P. Lovecraft, written 1927, first published, in abridged form, 1941)

O) “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (short story, Philip K. Dick, 1966)

P) “Flowers for Algernon” (short story, Daniel Keyes, 1959)

Q) “The Cosmic Frame” (short story, Paul W. Fairman, 1955)

R) “Seventh Victim” (short story, Robert Sheckley, 1953)

S) “Who Goes There?” (novella, John W. Campbell, Jr. as Don A. Stuart, 1946)

T) “The Turn of the Screw” (novella, Henry James, 1898)

U) “The Colour Out of Space” (short story, H. P. Lovecraft, 1927)

V) “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” (short story, Ray Nelson as Ray Faraday Nelson, 1963)

W) “The Fog Horn” (short story, Ray Bradbury, 1951)

X) “Farewell to the Master” (novelette, Harry Bates, 1940)