Synopsis
This educational film from 1961 titled “Reaching for the Stars” is a Holland-Wegman Film presented by Corning Glass Works. The film was intended by the Corning Glass Company to showcase ‘Project Stratoscope’, where the first unmanned balloon-borne telescope was flown into space for astronomical research and photography in 1957. The film also shows the history and modernization of Corning glass making and educates on the development of telescopes. It includes footage of solar photography and the giant Hale telescope at Palomar. Lastly, the film shows various glass types that have improved all kinds of technologies and assisted in overall development and modernization. Credits ( 00:06 ). “Reaching for the Stars” title banner ( 00:09 ). Credits ( 00:17 ). Space ( 00:27 ). Glass material ( 00:35 ). Glass balls ( 00:45 ). A man climbs into the middle hole of a giant glass disk ( 00:52 ). Animation of stars ( 01:13 ), a star constellation of a man and Sirius, colloquially known as the "Dog Star" ( 01:19 ), and the Pyramids and the ancient Egyptians using Sirius to predict flooding of the Nile River ( 01:25 ). Puppets portraying the ancient Chinese people, who developed devices to plot the path of the sun, moon, and the stars ( 01:50 ). A puppet as Hans Lipperhey, a German-Dutch spectacle-maker and inventor of 'Spyglass' ( 02:07 ). An Illustration of the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei inventing the Galilean telescope ( 02:25 ). He observes the planets through the telescope (…
Uploader's description on archive.org
Details
- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Stock Footage