JG Ballard portrait photo for the Radio Times in December 1973, references Salvador Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism ?

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Salvador Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism
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JG Ballard portrait photo for the Radio Times in December 1973

 

a) A photograph of JG Ballard from the Radio Times, advertising the BBC program Omnibus that was televised on the 13th December 1973.

Whole double page spread from the magazine (source: https://twitter.com/woodg31)

b.i) References Salvador Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism?

This certain photo of JG Ballard most probably referenced Salvador Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism, as a number of portrait photos from that magazine appear to reference various paintings. It suggests that the photographer had some of the car wrecks repositioned especially for the composition

 

b.ii) Hand with fork becomes a car roof

b.iii) Merging heads with arms and knife becomes JG Ballard's head and shoulders with connecting hands.

b.iv)  Slice of meat and stocking draped over the edge become JG Ballard's shoes. Side of cupboard becomes the front grill of the car.

b.v) Organic form, clothing and draw become window of a car wreck

c.  See:HR Giger's Alien III (Side view II, first state) references portrait photo of JG Ballard for Radio Times (1973)?

Alien III (Side view II, first state) (Source "Giger" by HR Giger, Taschen)

Alien and Star Trek: The Animated Series: Episode 14 - The Slaver Weapon

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Alien: Echoes of ideas from Star Trek The Animated Series

a) First broadcast: 15th December 1973
In this story by Larry Niven, adapted from his short story "The Soft Weapon", we discover stasis boxes that are all that are left behind by a long gone alien civilisation and perfectly preserve whatever they contain.

Inside a box discovered in this story is a weapon that changes form sometimes looking almost gourde like, but seems to only be barely useful, perhaps as an item idea for a spy or espionage.

Later they manage to have it transform into a weapon that shoots a "total conversion beam" creating explosions the size of a nuclear bomb blast, then it transforms into a reasoning computer that decides to turn into a self destructing device in the hands of the Kzinti extra-terrestrials.

Polymorphous artifact from "The Slaver Weapon"

b) Soft polymorphism
So I find myself asking if perhaps the idea that the alien spore is almost timeless along with the facehugger contained within from Alien echoes the stasis box left behind by a long lost ancient civilisation and its contents and then the facehugger as an initial stage of a polymorphous insect like lifecycle reflects the polymorphous nature of this strange weapon found inside.

Niven's idea for a weapon also loosely reflects the idea of Dali's surrealism and the use of the word "soft" as in "soft architecture" and "soft watches".

Illustration by Jerry Mayes, from Trumpet #10
Copyright © 1969 by Tom Reamy
(source: http://news.larryniven.net/

Source Quotes

1. Larry Niven: In "Soft Weapon" the word soft is used as Salvador Dali used it: mutable . I had the notion of an advanced spy device built by aliens.  (Forward to The Neutron Star short story collection, March 23rd, 2013)
2. Larry Niven: The weapons are of the Soft Weapon type: "soft" in the sense used by Salvidor Dali, in that the weapon changes shape.  (DOWN  IN  FLAMES, OUTLINE FOR AN UNWRITTEN EPIC NOVEL BY LARRY NIVEN (c) 1977 by Larry Niven)

Below Images from The Slaver Weapon

 

"Apollo Astronauts" (Published as supplement to National Geographic Vol. 144, No. 3 (September 1973)) by Pierre Mion.

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20th century works inspired by the Henu Barque?

a)  "Apollo Astronauts" (Published as supplement to National Geographic Vol. 144, No. 3 (September 1973)) by Pierre Mion.

(source https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/space/2018/07/see-how-apollo-era-scientists-thought-wed-live-moon)

b) "Apollo Astronauts" painting by Pierre Mion (1973) references “Melancholy, Atomic Uranic Idyll” by Salvador Dali (1945)?

c) References Max Ernst's "Au rendez-vous des amis" (A Friends’ Reunion), 1922?

c.i) The two paintings side by side with Max Ernst's painting reversed

d) Referenced in?

d.i) HR Giger's Alien Monster II(1978)

JG Ballard portrait photo for the Radio Times in December 1973

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Whole double page spread from the magazine (source: https://twitter.com/woodg31)

a)  References Salvador Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism?

 

 

b) Referenced in HR Giger's Alien III (Side view II, first state) (1978) 

 

 

Alien: Echoes of ideas from Star Trek The Animated Series

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Alien: Afterthoughts

a)  Star Trek : The animated series on TV and in novelisation form
A question comes to the surface about whether Dan O'Bannon, Ron Shusett and Ron Cobb had been watching the Star Trek The Animated Series. It might be normal for them to see it on TV when it was broadcast, or find out what interesting things were in them from someone who watched them , Of course Alan Dean Foster who wrote the novelisations for Dark Star and Alien, wrote the novelisations for this series releasing Starlog One in 1974 and finishing with Starlog Ten in 1978 as well.

I had documented Beyond The Farthest Star a couple of months before as something that might crawled into the story, but then I thought there might be more in perhaps clever ways, ideas that might get into the viewer's head and mix with other ideas in a very abstract way. I was thinking about where the spore and facehugger idea came from because I'm not convinced it's simply made up from creepy crawly ideas, but that was the way to tie it all together, there had to be something a little bit more significant in the world of science fiction to grab O'Bannon's attention.

b) See: Star Trek: The Animated Series: Episode 1: " Beyond The Farthest Star"
First broadcast 8th December 1973

c) See: Star Trek, The Animated Series: Episode 4: "The Lorelei Signal"
First Broadcast 29th September 1973,

d) See:  Star Trek The Animated Series, Episode 6: "The Survivor"
First Broadcast  13th October 1973

e) Episode 12: The Time Trap.
First Broadcast 24th November 1973
The enterprise finds itself in a strange space graveyard in a pocket parallel. It's a sort of a Bermuda Triangle in space. Dan O'Bannon liked the idea of the planetoid in Alien being in a Bermuda Triangle In Space sort of area.

g) See:  Star Trek The Animated Series Episode 14: "The Slaver Weapon"

First broadcast: 15th December 1973

Alien: Echoes of ideas from Star Trek The Animated Series

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Star Trek
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Alien: Afterthoughts

a)  Star Trek : The animated series on TV and in novelisation form
A question comes to the surface about whether Dan O'Bannon, Ron Shusett and Ron Cobb had been watching the Star Trek The Animated Series. It might be normal for them to see it on TV when it was broadcast, or find out what interesting things were in them from someone who watched them , Of course Alan Dean Foster who wrote the novelisations for Dark Star and Alien, wrote the novelisations for this series releasing Starlog One in 1974 and finishing with Starlog Ten in 1978 as well.

I had documented Beyond The Farthest Star a couple of months before as something that might crawled into the story, but then I thought there might be more in perhaps clever ways, ideas that might get into the viewer's head and mix with other ideas in a very abstract way. I was thinking about where the spore and facehugger idea came from because I'm not convinced it's simply made up from creepy crawly ideas, but that was the way to tie it all together, there had to be something a little bit more significant in the world of science fiction to grab O'Bannon's attention.

b) See: Star Trek: The Animated Series: Episode 1: " Beyond The Farthest Star"
First broadcast 8th December 1973

c) See: Star Trek, The Animated Series: Episode 4: "The Lorelei Signal"
First Broadcast 29th September 1973,

d) See:  Star Trek The Animated Series, Episode 6: "The Survivor"
First Broadcast  13th October 1973

e) Episode 12: The Time Trap.
First Broadcast 24th November 1973
The enterprise finds itself in a strange space graveyard in a pocket parallel. It's a sort of a Bermuda Triangle in space. Dan O'Bannon liked the idea of the planetoid in Alien being discovered a Bermuda Triangle In Space sort of area.

1. Walter Hill: I recall O'Bannon wanted the ship to sail into a kind of Bermuda Triangle in space (Cinefantastique vol 9, no.1)

g) See:  Star Trek The Animated Series Episode 14: "The Slaver Weapon"

First broadcast: 15th December 1973

The cover of The Pink Panther #16 (1973) references Autumnal Cannibalism(1936) by Salvador Dali ?

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The Pink Panther Comic Book Trail

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 Salvador Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism
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Splice: Evolution of Vincenzo Natali's early mutant concept (2000) for Splice (2009) via Eisenstein's Egotism, Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism, and Pink Panther #16?
 

a)  The cover of The Pink Panther #16 (1973)

b) Autumnal Cannibalism (1936) by Salvador Dali

c) The interlocking heads becomes the Pink Panther head with turban

d) The pan and small foot idtems becomes the basket and sole of the foot

e) The fork becomes the whiskers of the panther's face, and the spoon becomes the bell of the snake charmer pipe.

f) The hand remains as a hand

g) The hand becomes a music note