# The Big Bounce

Documents the development, technological innovations, and first flight of the first first telecommunications satellite, developed as part of Project Echo by NASA, Bell Laboratories, and Remington Rand. This film was reproduced on DVD by NYU's MIAP program in collaboration with the Orphan Films Symposium on the “Orphans in Space” DVD, c. 2013, produced by Walter Forsberg, et alia., in collaboration with Megan P. and the Prelinger Archives among other archives. Following is "The Big Bounce" narration script written by Megan Prelinger for the DVD: 1. The Maker This film is a Jerry Fairbanks Production, one of many that Fairbanks produced for the Bell System in their series of sponsored films that were targeted at general audiences. A few Bell System films produced by Fairbanks have become cult classics, including "Adventures in Telezonia" and "Once Upon a Honeymoon". Jerry Fairbanks was born in San Francisco in 1904 and was a cinematographer, aviator and an inventor. As a young man he shot aerial views of cities from his own airplane, and in the 1930s and 1940s founded Scientific Films, Inc. to produce short subjects. He made films in partnership with POPULAR SCIENCE magazine, light treatments of new developments in science and technology, including plastics and television. Fairbanks is credited with the invention of the multi-cam system for shooting television programs in studio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Fairbanks (retrieved 7/24/23) 2. The Satellite Echo One, the…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1962
- By: Jerry Fairbanks Productions
- Genres: Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/201576_The_Big_Bounce)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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