Astronomy For You ★🥅 Educational Films from the 1950's

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Astronomy For You ★🥅 Educational Films from the 1950's

"This series of programs is designed for the adult layman who has a curiosity about the skies and the makeup of the universe in which we live. The terms used during the series are fully explained and materials from a number of great observatories and institutions of learning are used for visual illustration. The series begins with the solar system and works outward, stimulating interest in this area and awakening a desire for further study and investigation."

Introduction to Astronomy ... for the Layman. WARNING! This series of lectures - about Astronomy - from 1959, has not aged well! It is no longer accurate about some things ....

I'm amused by the quaint ideas from 1959 that we have since dis-proven. Astronomers no longer talk about the "Canals of Mars" ... or about Venus being a Habitable "Sister Planet" to Earth. And we have solved most of the questions that - in his time - were still unanswered. And, even Pluto is no longer a Planet. Oh, it's still the same, since 1959, but quibbling humans changed the rules: so it is no longer considered a "Planet". These old class films were decomposing ... and I'm glad they got rescued!!! And now YOU get to be bored to death by them, also!

13 lessons, filmed in 1959 by the Metropolitan Educational Television Association, for Classroom Use ... I think. (You can find an amazing amount of old classroom films moldering on YouTube ... )

NET 🥅 - National Educational Television - was the direct predecessor to the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) ... and to this very day: PBS is still known for producing the highest quality educational and news programming. NET was launched on May 16 1954 by some forward thinking people - who hoped television had a more noble purpose, and destiny, than just being a machine for separating money from slack jawed hypnotized consumers. NET is older than most of us - and the "Grandfather" of all educational television!!!

This really ancient series was at the START of a continuing tradition of excellence in educational video ... so now you can see what the state of the art in educational television was in 1959. Television was just beginning to be explored as an educational medium at the time ... ripe with potential! Remember, this was still 10 years before Sesame Street would be Born ... literally the DAWN of Educational Television!!!

And so, I think this series might be more 'Moldy Oldie' than 'Golden Oldie' - I imagine bleary eyed cave men gathered around ... and staring at a tiny x-ray spewing box with a fuzzy little round picture in it - Oh, This ought to cure your insomnia!

Enough people have Favorited this series: that I'm glad it has been revived after all.

01. The Solar System - The Small Planets 02. The Solar System - The Giant Planets 03. The Earth In Space 04. The Moon 05. Minor Members Of The Solar System 06. The Sun 07. Measuring Time And Distance 08. Fingerprints Of The Stars 09. Star Gazing 10. The Nature Of The Stars 11. Nebulae And Clusters 12. Our Milky Way Galaxy 13. Galaxies And The Universe

Download ★ ALL 13 Films in this Series, at One Time, HERE (7.9 GB): https://archive.org/compress/astronomy-for-you/formats=MPEG4&file=/astronomy-for-you.zip

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Archive

Internet Archive, in Lost telecourses

Licence or status

Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Rights statement

All N.E.T. Videos are Public Domain

Credit

META

Language

English

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed