How Uncanny Was My Valley

Earliest known promotional art for How Uncanny Was My Valley.

A face mask of the wearer's own face, an inspiration for How Uncanny Was My Valley.

How Uncanny Was My Valley is a 1941 film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family on Mars, from the point of view of the youngest child Pkd, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents, and his five brothers, in the Valles Marineris during the early modern era.

The story chronicles life in the Martian colonies, the widening gaps between the "Cannies" (human colonists) and the "Uncannies" (android-Martian hybrids), and its effects on the family.

The Waking of the Slate

The film gives a realistic depiction of the traditional Welsh Waking of the Slate ritual.

Anvils In Flight

The musical anvils band Anvils In Flight appears briefly in a bar fight scene performing the introduction to their hit song "Never Touch Ground" (better known as "Anvils Above").

Origin

The concept originated in a Facebook post on the afternoon of Tuesday June 15, 2020.

• Comment @ Facebook

In the News

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  Martian Pink-Slip is a 1964 book on interplanetary labor history by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1.

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  "I've seen people you things wouldn't believe." —Roy Batty

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  Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about ... Miami.
  Miami?
  Let me tell you about Miami. (Replicant Vice)

Fiction cross-reference

• Anvils In Flight
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• I've seen people you things wouldn't believe
• Musical anvils
• The Waking of the Slate - traditional Welsh mining ritual
• Slate in the Evening - novel about an alcoholic who substitutes slate for drink
• One If By Clay - 2020 adventure film; the title is from the phrase "One if by clay, two if by slate" - see Binomial geology
• Replicant Vice

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Philip K. Dick (nonfiction)
• Karl Jones (nonfiction)

External links

• How Green Was My Valley (film)
• Valles Marineris