The Sky: A Film Lesson in "Nature Study" (1928)
1928 · Ephemeral film · 17 min
- Documentary
Synopsis
An early documentary about life above Earth, focusing on the planet's atmosphere and how what we do affects it. Also shown is a young boy learning how to to make a refractive telescope. In the last half of the film, an aircraft takes an imaginary trip to the moon.
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Details
- Released
- 1928-01-01
- Running time
- 17 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Plane wars in space! · Spuzz · 2019-11-01
Passable very early film about the planets in our solar system. Of course, no real lifelike photography existed of this at the time, so we're stuck with illustrations. The first 1/4 of the film deals with the atmosphere and what not on earth, and then the film goes exploring, by having a plane go to the moon. So they get some things right and wrong, but hey, it's the 20s, so they're allowed to make mistakes.