Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

Tom Graeff, David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant · 1959 · 86 min

Tom Graeff wrote, produced, directed, photographed, edited, and scored this, then cast himself in a supporting part. The aliens have come to farm giant lobsters on Earth; the giant lobster is a projected shadow of a real one. It is inept in a way inseparable from how personal it obviously was, and the story of what happened to Graeff afterward is considerably sadder than anything that happens on screen.

Chosen print (2026-08-17): Archive.org item teenagers_from_outerspace, file Teenagers_from_Outer_Space.mp4 — 1.05 GB, 610x480, 85.5 min.

The most-downloaded copy (409k downloads), 610x480. Culled along the way: a colorized derivative — colorization can carry its own copyright and is wrong on curation grounds besides.

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Public domain by long-standing distribution consensus: published 1959, renewal required in the 28th year and by all accounts never filed. The renewal window (1986–87) falls in the Copyright Office's post-1977 online records rather than the scanned CCE volumes, so the online renewal search is the named remaining verification step before the torrent publishes.