Nov 16th 
The Black Hole*     

(US 1979)                    

In the year 2130 the USS explorer ship Palomino returning to Earth encounters a mysterious fellow vessel on the edge of a black hole, with its captain and sole remaining human crew member obsessed with entering through it.
Rather glum looking sci-fi (one of the many in the wake of Star Wars) which begins as a rather ponderous outer space re-working of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, with weak characterisation and variable special effects, which then switches into laser shoot-outs and an ending that tries to combine 2001-like awe with Disney-style morality.

Written by: Jeb Rosebrook, Jerry Day.
Producer: Ron Miller.
Director: Gary Nelson.
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux, Joseph Bottoms; voices of Roddy McDowall, Slim Pickens.
Photography: Frank Phillips.
Music: John Barry.
Production Design: Peter Ellenshaw.

THE BLACK  HOLE (1979). A black hole could be best described as where the Disney studio were inexorably headed towards at the time.

Preceded by:
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in
Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a Half Century**
(US 1953. 7m. w: Michael Maltese; d: Chuck Jones; voices of Mel Blanc.)