Learning About Light

Learning About Light Encyclopaedia Britannica Junior Films 15:39:52 Kids playing Blind Man’s Buff at party - young girl Jane has blindfold put on & screen goes black. VO “Do you know what happens when Jane covers her eyes?” Jane cheats by peeking & catches her friend Peggy. Pan from bulbs in floor lamp to light shining on ball - VO re reflection. 15:41:02 Animation of sun’s rays; man looking at tree w/ sunlight reflected off it towards him. Half Moon. Peggy turns lamp on & off; Jane hides beind wall. VO “light travels in straight lines, that’s why Peggy cannot see Jane when she goes around the corner”. 15:41:42 Aerial view passenger ship at sea; animation showing ship sailing away beyond horizon - VO “light cannot curve with the earth”. 15:42:07 View thru window to Jane in living room. Shots of transluscent & opaque objects in living room, aquarium, lamp shade, drapes, globe. 15:42:46 Jane puts blindfold on Peggy & makes shadow puppets on wall. Girls look in mirror. Bouncing ball to one another - freeze frame & diagram showing “angle of incidence” & “angle of reflection”. 15:44:50 Two men at Hall of Mirrors - faces distorted in curved glass. Refraction explained w/ pencil & straw put in jars of water. Girl sits down to read w/ glasses. CU magnifying glass over book; microscope; observatory; galaxy. 15:46:32 INT film studio - camera, crew & living room set used in this film. Summary of lessons learned in film w/ corresponding shots. Jane looks into round mirror w/ Peggy reflected in BG - images distorted. Science; Physics; Vision; Eyesight; Distortion; Distorted Images; Oddities; 1950s;