Nobody could figure out how Kettering had shot his realistic scenes on Mars. His movie was just too good to be trueâand much too gruesome! I remember it all so clearly. âGet the information and you can have anything you want,â Myron Ferdinand told me. He stuffed his heavy pipe with five-dollar-an-ounce tobacco and blew a heavy cloud around his heavy face. âFail to get it, and Iâll wash you out of the whole industry.â