Love that scene too, it really stuck with me seeing it as a kid

@@chrisbenavides3176 Is it just me, or was that the last space movie that made a point of conveying SPACE, and hugeness, and emptiness, and alone-ness and helplessness in it all? (Of course when you're 7, everything in a movie is huge and amazing and awesome.)

@@craigrmeyer 2010 had a similar vibe and that was a few years later. But I know what you mean.

Agreed, its almost as if you try to imagine the crew attending to their business coming and going, but knowing that that hasn't happened for nearly 20 years.

Loved the scene, and the music that accompanied it.

IndianaBones indeed! A space haunted house horror long before Event Horizon.

Maximilian is that classic 1950s crazy scientist/doctor with a Space-Opera twist

@@JamesFitzRoyinFlux Event Horizon was like a reimagination of the Black Hole.

I'll give you everything except the good acting.. other than Mr Schnell , the line delivery seemed .. flat.. The Black Hole has special meaning in my life. was the first motion picture my brother and I were allowed to attend without parents. :)

Movie critics will always look down on a movie that suggests concepts like Heaven and Hell and the idea that people will be judged and punished for evil behavior but a divine being

@@adampositron6871 Today's Disney execs don't like to think about that, either.

because it always gets compared unjustly to star wars ....

@@adampositron6871 you're probably right. That would probably be the reason why you never see this movie play on cable TV or TV period. Wouldn't want to teach young and impressionable children of every generation the concept of eternal judgement now would we.

I think the Cygnus was designed to be open and airy and not claustrophobic--necessary traits for a deep space vessel with a large crew and long, long voyages. That's a lot of time spent on board so the living and working spaces would have to be, in a word, magnificent. It's one of the more believable space vessels IMO. As for the central vein down the center of the hull, it looks like it was a modular design for maximum cargo capacity or more living quarters.

The Cygnus Holds Up Better Within Pull of Gravity That Way ... Besides : Those Burning Red Meteor Balls Have To Be Able To Roll Through The Spaceship

I did wonder why a crew of maybe a few hundred needed a ship bigger than Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport... Seems kinda wasteful.

The whole movie has a very "FP" feel, with Reinhardt as Dr. Morbius. When he asks McCrae to "protect" him from Maximilian, you have to wonder. Did Reinhardt build Maximilian, and the drive system that keeps the Cygnus from being yanked into the hole- or did he FIND them? And if the latter, WHO originally built both? And who is really running the show? Reinhardt- or Maximilian? You can talk about themes that might be in certain SF films, but like Forbidden Planet, in The Black Hole they're actually there, in plain sight. Possibly the most philosophical, and certainly the darkest, movie Disney has ever made. And I'm not referring to the stage lighting.

Your forgot air shafts ;)

The actual filming model was 12 feet long and weighed 200 pounds.

tuan vandersluis it certainly has a creepy mystery theme perfectly encapsulates by Barry’s score.

yes I see.

yean then gets jump scared by Maximilian LOL

@Bigfriendly15 Agreed. The music score also contributes wonderfully to that scene, amplifying the dark mood of the scene, and makes you want to ask something along the lines of "Where did the crew go, anyway?"

How about spinning vibroblades?

Thomas Bicknell thanks for your comment. I’d have to agree with all that. It may have been a kids film but I loved the general tone of mystery and there were certainly some dark moments.

I have that same question - what Director's Cut? If such a thing exists, I totally need to see it. The director Gary Nelson recently passed away, so releasing a director's cut of The Black Hole would be an amazing tribute!

Deacon Davis thanks.

Hey man, calm yourself. It's *science fiction* but the movie establishes that Reinhardt developed a mechanism or a technology for antigravity--that's why the ship has been sitting there, motionless, for years while he gathered data on the black hole. I'd suggest not watching any more sci-fi movies lest it affect or alter your suspension of disbelief, hahhaahaaa

You’re spot on about how wonderfully visual the film is, not lost on the Academy who gave it nominations for Cinematography & Visual Effects

If the black hole has enough mass you could "theoretically" cross the event horizon with no major issues. Once across the event horizon, however, we have no idea what would happen.

Well, the music is by none other than John Barry - the composer noted for the early Bond scores.

@@stewartlynch1284 Ahhhhhhh.....

Many thanks

There is no comparison between The Black Hole and The Event Horizon, there were some similarities between the two movies, but it basically the two movies had different plots and storylines. The one main thing that is in common with both movies is the concept of the black hole itself.🌍🎇👽🤖🚀🌌🕳️🤖👽

It’s the same basic concept of plot when you get to the Foundations. Derelict Ship, the scientist turns out to be the big bad in both movies, and there is a journey into Hell inside the Black Hole in both

There was a development Hell in the making of this movie. Originally, the idea was a Disaster/Survival Movie to compete with Jaws. But over the years it hey changed the concept to the point of having the evil scientist later on after rewriting the script. There’s a good video by GoodBadFlicks going over the decade of rewriting involved in making the film.

Ehh, no. BUT, this movie should have achieved cult status greatness. The fact that there isn't a ride from this movie shows that it flopped

Right? And small cubicle sized quarters. The designers really botched that up but good.

The Cygnus was, even by the standards within the story world it inhabits, ostentatious. It was seemingly a one of a kind vessel all built to the exacting standards of her egotistical commander.

Perhaps manufacturing is so automated and material so accessible that such wastefulness only marginally increases the cost - like ostentatious corporate buildings today or the palaces of yesterday

@@JohnSmith-zf1lq I'd certainly say that it would be reasonable to presume that with deep space exploration would come the relative ease of asteroid mining, so materials shouldn't be an issue.

@@Gavrev I wouldn't say Reinhardt had a voice at all in the ship's design, but It's safe to say he took over the parts of the ship that he wanted (officer's wardroom for example) after he lobotomized the crew and then the ship thereafter reflected the exacting standards that his egotistical, tyrannical command dictated. Made himself Supreme Emperor basically and had the ostentatious crystal chandelier in the dining room to prove it.

I think the story was that the robots were original to the ship, intended for defense and general ship's security. Reinhardt re-programmed them to round up the human crew and have them lobotomized to remove their free will. A prequel to this ship would be fantastic in order to show how the ship operated in the time before the Black Hole was discovered.

Yeah she actually played her role pretty well. Admittedly. Too bad the movie wasn't any better than it was. Maybe it was the editing.

@@christopjerfoote5747 I’ve always liked the movie. It’s good, but granted, not great. I just love the brief but wild, metaphysical turn the movie takes at its finale. The Black Hole is definitely Disney’s ode to 2001: A Space Odyssey

@Bigfriendly15 I just realized that was her! Here she is in the BH, 20 Years Older and hotter than ever.

One theory that has been submitted in recent years is that the end scenes (Heaven, Hell, etc) were the result of mental visions pouring out of Dr. McCrae's heightened-ESP mind on overdrive. The visions were created during the traverse through the black hole. The ending seems to take its cues from the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

But with a full crew compliment, it must've been fairly fantastic for those long space voyages.

I read somewhere that the producers considered a shorter hairstyle more appropriate for a space explorer in zero g environments.

@@RobertWF42 I heard that too, but it's still old lady hair! Close crop would have looked better, but I guess it was 1979...

The movie was from 1979 but it had a 60s look to it.

Why not?

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Compromises are natural . After another Month or So , Merger might continue At 40 % / 60 %

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No more absurd than the crap they make today.

@@hyacinthlynch843 hah! Star Wars and Star Trek and most science fiction movies and tv series follow the rules of basic science that this movie totally ignored. Explosive decompression would have killed them all immediately....

@@3dartistguy The original Star Wars trilogy and Star Trek series stand alone.The recent SW & ST movies & tv series are complete crap.

@@hyacinthlynch843 they still adhere to basic science more so thaan the Black Hole NEVER did. Again, explosive decompression would have killed the crew of the Palomino instantly. This moviee was total CRAP.

@@3dartistguy It's obvious your brain has experienced explosive decompression. You misunderstood my first post, I didn't say the movie was great. By the way, the operative word in science fiction is "fiction."

Ehh, dude. It's supposed to be a collection of clips, i.e., read the title.