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Gravity

Reel Number: 221599-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950,1949

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 07:50:55

TC Ends: 08:01:13

Duration: 00:10:18

Gravity Coronet Instructional Films 07:51:16 Young boy Bob rests under tree, watching autumn leaves fall. Kids down slide in playground. Boy kicking football in slow motion. Light plane flies over. 07:52:06 Bob waves to passing man in smart suit / narrator - VO “I know Bob, I’m an engineer and work at the same plant as his Dad” - takes Bob to the plant office. 07:52:42 INT man shows Bob portrait of Isaac Newton; sits him down to talk about gravity & “mutual attraction between bodies”. Shows him some magnets. Bob onto weighing machine. 07:54:47 EXT man demonstrates orbit of Earth & Sun using golf ball on string, distant water tank as sun. 07:56:26 Back inside, man notes down mathematical equations re gravity. 07:58:44 Goes to 16mm projector & shows Bob film of experimental rocket flights. 07:59:33 Bob demonstrates gravity at work w/ pins showing man’s position on earth surface. Examples: Bob carrying heavy box; coal carried along conveyor, animation of radiator heating room, man swinging string. 08:00:55 Man drinking soda through straw. Science - Physics, Examples; 1950s; Educational Films;

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