Toward the Unknown, circa 1962

Film Specifications - 16mm ; Description - From Container: Film # 1 , Title "Toward The Unknown" , Location - NCAR Boulder, Colo. Producer - Granik Productions Capital Film Laboratories, Inc. Washington DC. Pilot for NSF and CUNY 1st Print. Film depicts Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, Director of NCAR and his colleagues, classes with telescopes, lab equipment, radio signal generators, balloons, history of meteorology, mathemetics, physics, astronomy, has footage of sun prominences and flares, gasses, aerial camera footage, classroom Q & A with his students. ; Location - Boulder, Colorado ; B & W ; Sound ; Date - 1950s ; Reel Size - 12" ; Approx Film Length - 1100' ; Approx. Running Time - 30 min. ; Condition - Plays well, sound garbled, barely understandable in some places. ; Opening Credits - A series of visits with America's Leading Scientists. Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, Director, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado. Produced in Cooperation with The City University of New York under a grant from The National Science Foundation ; Ending Credits - Produced Under a Grant to The City University of New York by The National Science Foundation, Scientific Advisory Panel, Dr. Joseph W. Barker, The City University of New York, Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Colin M. MacLeod, New York University, Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard University, Dr. Mina Rees, The City University of New York, Dr. Edward L. Tatum, Rockefeller Institute, Science Consultant - Dr. Joseph W. Barker, Created and Produced by - Theodore Granik. Written and Directed by Alvin Yudkoff. Production Associate - Andrew Bluemle. Aurora Sequence Courtesy of T.N. Davis, NASA., Grady Hicks, Naval Research Laboratory. Acknowledgment is expressed for the contributions of Hon. Gustav Rosenberg, Chairman of the Board of Higher Education, City of New York, Dr. Mina Rees, Dean of Graduate Studies , The City University of New York, The National Geographic-Cornell University Study of Aurora; and The Office of Naval R.esearch. We wish to express our appreciation to Dr. Walter Orr Roberts and his associates at NCAR for their invaluable cooperation and assistance.