Once in a New Moon is a 1935 British science fiction film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Eliot Makeham, René Ray and Morton Selten.

[2] It was written by Kimmins based on the 1929 novel Lucky Star by Owen Rutter.

The village is now an island, the only land, and the rest of the mini planet is water which can be circumnavigated in a day.

However, conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers and lead the population of the newly named Shrimpton-in-Space to the brink of civil war.

Kine Weekly wrote: "Acting, presentation, and character drawing are all live and give credence to the improbable theme, which is very well argued.