Synopsis
This 1966 documentary, "We Are Not Alone" looks at the prospects for finding extraterrestrial life. Edward P. Morgan narrates this special based on Walter Sullivan's book of the same name, which explores the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. Among the guests are Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Harold Urey, M.I.T.'s Dr. Philip Morrison and NASA's Dr. William Pickering, Dr. Carl Sagan and Dr. Howard Yuri. The film ends with footage of upcoming developments for space travel including the Voyager spacecraft and potential Mars landings. Frank Drake walking up some stairs and talking to the camera interjected with footage of the stars they looked at, 4:38 an animation of a starry sky, 4:59 a man using a microscope, 5:22 animations of Mars and Venus, 5:29 animation of the Mariner satellite approaching Mars, 5:48 Director of the Mariner program Dr. William H Pickering speaking to the camera, 6:13 different angles of an animation of Mars, 6:57 Dr. Richard S. Young speaking to the camera interjected with footage of the diversity of life on earth, 8:05 Dr. Pickering speaks to the camera, 8:20 the Palomar optical telescope in California at work, 8:41 images of Quasars, 8:52 a refractor telescope at the US Naval Observatory and some of its findings, 9:42 Carl Sagan speaking to the camera, 11:05 close up footage of a ranger landing on the moon, 11:29 pictures from the surface of the moon, 12:28 animated footage of Mars including the path of the Mariner spacecraft, 12:55 pictures of…
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- Running time
- 30 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Stephen Fleischman
- We Are Not Alone
- Walter Sullivan
- Nobel Prize Winner Dr
- Arecibo Radio
- Naval Observatory
- Carl Sagan
- Nobel Prize
- Engineer William Hostetler
- Capitol Building
