Exploring The Universe

Duration: 1 reel

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1937

Creator: Encyclopedia Britannica Educ. Corp

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Demonstrates the principle and construction of telescopes. Shows by animation the binaries, trinaries, the variables and why they vary, galaxies and galactic rotation. Shows also what will happen to the Big Dipper in 100,000 years and illustrates the theory of the expanding universe.

Complete Record: Presents an explanation of refracting and reflecting telescopes. Introduces the dynamic aspects of the stars within the galaxies themselves.

Metadata Source:University of Georgia Brown Media Archives


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Australian Centre for the Moving Image, AV Geeks Archive, Library of Congress, University of Georgia Walter J Brown Media Archives and Peabody Collection


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