Monday, April 27, 2015

Orphans 1:  

The first film on the Orphans in Space DVD (see previous post) is an educational film entitled Meteorites.  It dates all the way back to 1947 and is a product from the Soviet Union.  This was Stalin's Russia.  It's fascinating to me.  Anytime I encounter a film about science from the 1950's or earlier, I assume that it will be full of horrendous scientific faults.  You know, fear of breathing dangerous space-air or ships maneuvering between stars as if there's a good twenty feet or so between them.  For the most part this film was quite accurate and the modeling/animation was even obviously created with actual physics in mind.  It's only ten minutes and worth a look.

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