DAILY CALL SHEET: AUGUST 24, 2024

A crew of medical specialists are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of a dying scientist to remove the blood clot in his brain from the inside. The catch, they only have one hour before they expand back to normal size, creating a messy situation for all involved. All these years later, the practical effects definitely show some of their seams, but the overall creativity on display combined with the 60's palette and style overcome any shortcomings.

TIL: Bad science alert! At microscopic size, a human’s eyeballs would actually be smaller than the wavelength of visible light. That means, unless they figured out a way to counter that problem, any byte sized bozo on a fantastic voyage would be blind as a bat. If only Jesus hadn't been speaking metaphorically about the conscience when he told us, “The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light.” In situations like this, it would be nice to have a built-in light source that magically shrinks with you.

Still Voices: Fantastic Voyage (1966) "Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves" - Horace Bushnell