This 1950’s film is about a party
Sent to track a missing nuclear missile
Who find a lost island continent
And have adventures there

You learn more about an era
From seeing its lesser works of art
Than from its classics
Because classics are timeless

While lesser works
Like this one
Aren’t about how we view people of that time
But how that time viewed itself

Which is: better than all times that came before it
Just like we do