Planet Earth Series ‚ The Nearest Star, 1960

Film Specifications - 16mm Kodak ; Description - From Film Container: McGraw-Hill Text Films, McGraw-Hill Book Co. Planet Earth Series 681118. ; Film Depicts scientists, instruments, astonomers, chemical analysis, filters, equipment, the coronograph, showing time-lapse solar flares and prominences, their effect on radio communications, balloons and launches, camera-telescopes, rocket launches, sun's energy, forces, sunspot activity and their positive and negative charges, structure, and its status as the nearest star. Eclipse analysis and its effect on waves. Diameter and size, surface, temperature variences, nuclear fusion and emmisions, particles, earth's magnetic field, light and wavelength spectrum, the Northern Lights, the ionosphere, clouds, wind, water, wind, photosynthesis, ancient times, Egyptian, Aztec interpretations, Copernicus, Gallileo, sun rotation, optical and radio telescopes are discussed. Satellite arrays discussed. Work at The National Bureau of Standards is discussed. ; Location - Laboratories and Observatories worldwide ; Color ; Sound ; Date - 1960 ; Reel Size - 12" ; Approx Film Length - 1000' ; Approx. Running Time - 27 min. ; Condition - Plays well, badly garbled sound but understandable. ; Opening Credits - The National Academy of Sciences presents The Nearest Star MCMLX (1960) One of a Series of Reports on Man's Studies of Planet Earth. ; Ending Credits - Produced by The National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, under the direction of Hugh Odishaw and Arnold Frutkin. With assistance from The Advisory Committee on Education (IGY). W. W. Atwood, Jr., J. S. Coles, C. C. Croneis, L. M. Gould, J. W. Joyce, J. Kaplan, J. R. MayerA. H. Shapley, R. M. Whaley. Producer - Lothar Wolff, Assoc. Producer - Norman Borisoff, Editor - George Klotz, Asst. Editor - Ed Packer, Narration - William H. Terry and Jim Scott, Directed and photographed by - Paul Rader, Gian-Franco Romagnoli, Roy Brubaker, Robert Gaffney, W. O. Field, Animation - Phillip Stapp, Sturgis-Grant Productions, Inc., B. K. B. Films, Music composed and conducted by Daniel Pinkham with the Cambridge Festival Orchestra - Robert Brink, Concertmaster, Music Editor - E. Robert Valezco, Grateful acknowledgement is made for the assistance of Walter Orr Roberts, High Altitude Observatory, University of Colorado, John W. Evans, Sacremento Peak Observatory, Geophysics Research Directorate, Air Force Cambridge Research Center. Seth B. Nicholson, Mount Wilson Observatory. Herbert Friedman, Naval Research Laboratory. U.S. Naval Observatory. University of Minnesota. Geographical Institute, University of Alaska. Project Stratoscope. Mechanical Institute of General Mills, Inc.. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Victoria, Australia. Academy of Sciences of the USSR. National Education Association. National Science Foundation. National Science Teachers Association and Louis DeRochemont Associates, Inc. Produced in Association with; WGBH Cambridge, Mass. With Grants from The Ford Foundation. Distributed by Text Films, a Department of The McGraw-Hill Book Comapany, Inc.