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Nature of Energy, The

Reel Number: 221707-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1949

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 22:23:42

TC Ends: 22:34:08

Duration: 00:10:26

The Nature of Energy Coronet Instructional Films 22:24:02 Costumed cavemen scene - prehistoric family. 22:24:13 Modern laboratory w/ man & woman w/ script; pull back to reveal movie camera & lights, VO “we’re preparing to shoot a motion picture on energy. Let’s see how many ways we are using energy to make our picture...” Technicians set up camera & lights - forms of energy inc. human muscle, electrical, sound. 22:25:05 Light meter w/ CUs. Filming starts - presenter / scientist demonstrates kinetic energy in weighted balls on strings. 22:26:21 Pile driver - hammer lifted by steam engine, MCUs. 22:26:38 Presenter mixes vinegar & baking soda - foams up & pushes cork out. 22:27:10 CUs car battery; motor starting - foot stepping on gas pedal - station wagon leaves. 22:27:32 Presenter heats water to boiling point. CU thermometer, steam moving turbine. 22:28:12 Illustrated diagram explaining radiant energy & various wavelengths, including television, heater, visible light, x-rays. 22:29:06 Dry cell batteries wired together, motor turns. Streetcar pulls up, passenger off, leaves - pan up to wires; electrical plant - hydroelectrical plant - dam - streetcar in motion - kinetic energy. 22:29:58 MCU steam locomotive pulling out, brief shots machines & appliances using different forms of energy; housewife ironing, factory tool, light plane taking off, coal loaded on train, into truck. Aerial lake & dam; sun shining; lake & stream; “the sun is the original source of most energy...” 22:31:05 Animation of energy produced by sun. 22:31:24 Nuclear energy: still shot of atomic bomb mushroom cloud explosion - presenter uses geiger counter to measure radioactivity of his watch & radium sample. Gages. 22:32:55 Recap of types of energy covered in film w/ extracts from each experiment: potential & kinetic, chemical, heat, electrical, nuclear. Filming finished, movie cameras unloaded. The End. 1949 Science Lecture - Chemistry / Physics; Educational Films; 1940s; Filmmaking; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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