Trivia / Woman in the Moon

• Executive Meddling: Fritz Lang resisted pressure from Ufa to add a sound track, meaning the film did poorly at a time when the public was rapt over the new 'talkies'. As well as Those Wacky Nazis confiscating the release prints, the film was chopped down from its original 156-minute length by distributors trying to make it more of an action-adventure film; therefore, some scenes have not survived the years.
• Life Imitates Art:
  • The countdown sequence used in the launch—an artistic license to accommodate Fritz Lang's reluctance to use sound and to increase the drama of the launch—was adopted wholesale by NASA for its own launches.
  • Wernher von Braun (head of the Nazi rocket program and a major figure in NASA) loved the movie so much, he put plaques◊ of the movie on his rockets.

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