The first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a human-made faster-than-light starship and the first to be set entirely on a planet orbiting another star, far away from Earth and the Solar System. The first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a human-made faster-than-light starship and the first to be set entirely on a planet orbiting another star, far away from Earth and the Solar System. This pioneering 1956 American science-fiction film, a loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is known for its early all-electronic score and the introduction of the iconic Robbie the Robot.