#Klaatu

[postpunkindustrial]

World Contact Day

In 1953 an orginazation called The International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB) declared March 15th to be World Contact Day.

On World Contact Day was a day membersof the IFSB were urged that at 6:00 PM EST to lie down and telepathicly send out the following message;

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft! Calling occupants of interplanetary craft that have been observing our planet EARTH. We of IFSB wish to make contact with you. We are your friends, and would like you to make an appearance here on EARTH. Your presence before us will be welcomed with the utmost friendship. We will do all in our power to promote mutual understanding between your people and the people of EARTH. Please come in peace and help us in our EARTHLY problems. Give us some sign that you have received our message. Be responsible for creating a miracle here on our planet to wake up the ignorant ones to reality. Let us hear from you. We are your friends

Years later The Canadian Pop/Prog band Klaatu learned about the world contact day from a book called "The Flying Saucer Reader."

Being a Prog/Pop band called Klaatu in the 1970's this struck a chord and they wrote the song callied "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft."

A year later the Carpenters found the song and coveredit it on their album Passage.

Calling all occupants was released as a single in September 1977 (possibly to ride the Star Wars wave that was going on at the moment.)

This time the single added the tag line The recognized anthem of World Contact Day. (I have no idea what organziing body would recognize World Contact Day as the IFSB had disbanded but I'm sure anyone who had an interest in telepathicly contacting aliens would not complain about the publicity)

Eventually the song would be the ending number on their very Star Warsploitation TV special Space Encounters.

A brief nota about Albert Bender and the IFSB.

In 1952 Albert Bender formed the The International Flying Saucer Bureau or the IFSB for short.

In 1953 the bereau was abruptly shut down shortly after the first World Contact Day after Bender was apparantly contacted and threatened by three Men in Black.

His experiences would eventually be recorded in the book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers". This helped enshrine The Men in Black into UFO folklore and start a chain of events that would lead to a hit movie franchise.

But most impotantly it lead to this killer advertising copy

In 2013 World contact day was made into World Contact Week.

So no rush.

[mimilllion]

character designs for klaatu's 1977 concept album, hope, based on a one pager for an animated musical adaptation that never really surfaced

+ rough illustrations

[bellilou42]

Over the Garden Wall (2014)

♪ We're Off You Know - Klaatu

[cirilee]

this is gonna be a weird question, but did you make a beatles edit to klaatu’s “we’re off you know” in 2019-ish.

i’ve been trying to scratch an itch in my brain and i think you’re the person who made it?? if not, that’s totally cool, i just figured there’s no harm in asking!

ok so, just because this video is so obscure and would probably be completely lost, here it is:

this was the last thing i did before my beatles hyperfixation ended - almost a very fitting little goodbye :')

especially since klaatu has been rumored to secretly be the beatles.

[lonely-dog-draws]

(I guess)

[gameraboy2]

Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

[mr-dead-inside]

The Day the Earth Stood Still 🌎(1951)🛸

[doctormarvello]

[cosmonautroger]

Gort & Klaatu, The Day The Earth Stood Still

[hansbelting]

'La Montagne' - Larousse, 1956

[cosmonaut-rust]

Long Live Politzania

As the war continued to rage on, the Politzanian populace continued to dwindle. A few of the decidedly defective defectors departed for the enemy’s territory and those who remained that the leader believed questioned his laws or who were secret harborers of doubt were… disposed of. As such, the leader - in his forty-eighth year - found trust in what had become a rather small pool of an inner circle.

He saw how all those whom he trusted had - in some way or another - had betrayed him, had conspired, and had deceived him. Though it had pained him, he found no other option but to cull the culprits. To him, every commander had become a spy, every loyal servant a traitor, and every bridge made bound to be burned.

A small price to pay for victory, he thought, as he commanded the removal of the tenacious few who decided to confront his authority. With his well-amassed army of soldiers - most of which had been mentally reprocessed - he had managed to eliminate every last remaining threat he could reach. However, it all began to go awry when the senseless soldiers, having had their mental capacities rewired, began to perceive their fellow comrades as immediate threats, reducing one another to rubble and ash, just as he had done to his closest confidants whom he considered conspirators against his new order.

Soon, with Politzania posing a laughably low threat to the enemy, the last and so were quickly quelled.

[silveragelovechild]

Michael Rennie played Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

[chernobog13]

"Howdy, neighbors!"

[stuckasmain]

You seeing this shit, Gort?

[itsfullofstars]

[marigoldgloriaswansong]

POLITZANIA RED WHITE AND GREEN

POLITZANIA REIGNING SUPREME 🗣️🗣️🗣️