About Silent Running
Silent Running (1972) is Douglas Trumbull's elegiac vision of a future where Earth's last forests survive only in geodesic biodomes aboard the freighter Valley Forge. Its look is the dark, riveted spacecraft hull that makes the living-forest dome glow electric green, framed by weathered NASA-beige hardware and industrial stencil decals.
This system translates that contrast into an interface language: a near-black hull ground, a single glowing forest green, and beaten beige metal. Type is geometric Futura-clone and industrial stencil — utilitarian, grease-pencil honest, never ornate.
- Origin
- North America (USA)
- Era
- 1972 (Douglas Trumbull's directorial debut); visual language of 1970s practical-effects sci-fi
- Key figures
- Douglas Trumbull · Bruce Dern · Joan Baez
- Movements
- 1970s ecological sci-fi · NASA-realist spacecraft modeling · practical effects
Silent Running design spec
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