The small monitor screen flickers to life in the darkened room. A small boy, slumbering in bed, is awakened by a brilliant flash of red light. Outside his window, the planet Mars hovers, growing to Olympian proportions. The boy speeds off into space in pursue of adventure. Mechanical toys are transformed into Martian warriors.
Spaceships zoom silently across space, engulfed in precision dogfights.
On the planet Venus, titanic trees and strange, canine creatures cavort. The planet Mercury assumes a playful, Tinkerbellesque form and glides through the solar system like a pulsating guardian angel. The images on the screen flow smoothly from one scene to another. It's more somnambulistic than Star Wars, more dreamlike than dramatic. By commercial television standards, the spacey excursion is a revolutionary step in video techniques.