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I smell Hollywood.

"The 1998 film Lost in Space was inspired primarily by the TV series Lost in Space, which first aired in 1965 and predates both the Black Hole and the original Yamato series."

Heh! You tell 'em, Tenchi!

No need for me to reply now (you beat me to it), so now I think all that's left for me to do is just go and take a nap (and don't anybody wake me).

"T.R.O.N." was filmed in 1998 and premered in limited releace in 1981, and public releace in 1982.
IMDB is only concered with when it was publicly releaced.

"The Last Starfighter" was filmed in 1980 and premiered in 1982.
It was restored to its original color with an enhanced soundtrack and had thanks audio in 1984.

The "Lost In Space" movie, first debuted as a "short" in the '40s under another name.
It was remade as "Lost In Space" in the '50s.
That movie was rereleaced (unedited in "tecnocolor") in the '60s.
It later became the pilot for a new TV series.
The series debuted in the 60s with "Bewitched" and "Batman" as chief competitors.

Irwin Allen was a radio host, producer and director who decided to try the motion picture industry. His 1953 documentary, "The Sea Around Us," won an Academy Award and led to a series of movies. After the successful transition of his Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea from the big screen to television, Irwin's next project was to convert the Johann David Wyss novel Space Family Robinson to an outer space motif, the Space Family Robinson. The pilot was filmed with the Robinsons crashing on an alien planet, just as the Robinsons had been stranded on an island in the original novel. After CBS executives thought the show need more conflict, Dr. Zachary Smith and a robot were added to the cast. When Disney objected to the name (They had released their film version of the Wyss novel 5 years previously), it was quickly changed to Lost in Space.

Lost in Space was Irwin Allen's most successful television program, the second of his" Fab Four" TV programs (along with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants). It premiered on CBS September 15, 1965. The ratings were sluggish at first, but started to pick up steam by the second month. By January of 1966, Lost in Space was a top ten program, soundly beating the competition on ABC, The Ozzie and Harriet Show and The Patty Duke Show, and seriously weakening NBC's The Virginian.

The original "Hole In Space" was a film based on a short story in the 30s.
Competing with Jules Vern's "20.000 Leagues Under The Sea" and "Rocket Man", it never had a chance.
In the 40s, the "short" was remade with the name "Vacuum In Space", but it still stunk.
In the 50's, it became a cult classic as "The Black Hole", which inspired the name of the compressed sun.
Color was later added to the hole when Disney took over in the '60s.
Disney reshot some scenes in the '70s with a more photographic look to the scratchy pictures from space, and enhaced the color and music.
New actors were brought in for the added scenes that were lost the first time around.

anime uncut wrote:

The original "Hole In Space" was a film based on a short story in the 30s. Competing with Jules Vern's "20.000 Leagues Under The Sea" and "Rocket Man", it never had a chance. In the 40s, the "short" was remade with the name "Vacuum In Space", but it still stunk. In the 50's, it became a cult classic as "The Black Hole", which inspired the name of the compressed sun. Color was later added to the hole when Disney took over in the '60s. Disney reshot some scenes in the '70s with a more photographic look to the scratchy pictures from space, and enhaced the color and music. New actors were brought in for the added scenes that were lost the first time around.

While undoubtably the filmmakers responsible for the Black Hole were influenced by earlier works, I can't find any evidence anywhere that they reused footage from earlier movies. In fact, I can't find any mention of any films named "Hole in Space" or "Vacuum in Space" anywhere on the Web.

anime uncut wrote:

"The Last Starfighter" was filmed in 1980 and premiered in 1982. It was restored to its original color with an enhanced soundtrack and had thanks audio in 1984.

I can find absolutely nothing on the Internet anywhere (including FAQsdedicated to the Last Starfighter) to support the idea that the Last Starfighter was released anywhere at anytime before 1984. Again, it's entirely possible that the idea for the movie predated production by many years, but production did not begin in earnest until 1982 or 83. At the time of its release, the computer graphics were unlike anything American audiences had ever seen, and were relatively better than TRON.

It was "recently" discoved that there is no real vacuum which sucks star crafts in.
This is pilot error. When getting too close to the edge of the field, the probe or craft will be caught in its field like everything else.
The G-Force of the churning mass inside the field, will be too great to stay on the surface, unless an undertow is found.

Maybe you should be looking at PBS for Carl Segan's "Cosmos" or even his book by the same name.

I meant collapsed sun, not compressed sun.
According to Segan, when a sun (AKA star) collapses in on itself, it is turned into a compressed white ball of light and energy called a "dwarfed star".
This has a strong field of static electricty surounding the entile white sphere.
Dust particles and other debris are caught in this wake, and keeps forming a funnel which inverts the white star to it's black counterpart.

It was "recently" discoved that there is no real vacuum which sucks star crafts in.
This is pilot error. When getting too close to the edge of the field, the probe or craft will be caught in its field like everything else.
The G-Force of the churning mass inside the field, will be too great to stay on the surface, unless an undertow is found.

anime uncut wrote:

Maybe you should be looking at PBS for Carl Segan's "Cosmos" or even his book by the same name. I meant collapsed sun, not compressed sun. According to Segan, when a sun (AKA star) collapses in on itself, it is turned into a compressed white ball of light and energy called a "dwarfed star". This has a strong field of static electricty surounding the entire white sphere. Dust particles and other debris are caught in this wake, and keeps forming a funnel which inverts the white star to it's black counterpart.

I don't think you're making up information to spite me or anything, but I'm thinking you may be half-remembering information from a commentary track or "making of" documentary where the filmmakers were discussing their influences and confusing "being influenced by" with "using footage from".

I'll come back to the post in a minute.

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The "Starbright" trailer park and old fashon arcade (exterior) were shot in 1980.
The General Store (exterior and interior), parked hovercraft, old fashon arcade (interior), and last pinball machine shot, were done in 1981.
Clone shots in park and home, flying car (Preston added later), mid pinball machine shot, and all aliens were done in 1982.
Between 1980 and '82, computer graphics were being sketched, created, and animated inside a Super-Computer.
You might of heard of it.
The son of the original itelf, Univac II. (IBM musam piece)
The program was even split between computers, and shipped to M.I.T. to be put in their baby (I forgot what it's called).
Intresting fact: Robert Preston was in a stage production of "The Music Man" until 1984.
A Preston impersonator was used for a few scenes while a Preston miniture was used for the rest of the movie.
In '84, they used the real Robert Preston overlapping the impersonator like they did with the stunt driver.