LIFE ON EARTH 1930
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@fourminutewarning - This was originally a SILENT film, with no soundtrack at all. The soundtrack you hear now was added later, when this video was compiled for YouTube.
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This looks much earlier than 1930, based on both the fact that the film is silent, and the hair & clothing styles of the scientists who appear onscreen.
The Bray Studios did several "Science of" films, in 1918 & 1919. This film appears to come from that period, or sometime in the early 1920s. However, it is not listed on either IMDB or BCDB, so it's something of a mystery. Unless it was re-issued with this different title.
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@TruegrassBoy are you kidding me idk what they were thinking when they filmed this, they had Gustov Holst's The Planets available to them - that would have been more better yeh for sure.
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Some aspects of this film seem sophisticated for it's time, but to call the hyracotherium foxlike? It survived on a diet of plant shoots (just looking at the teeth you can get an idea oif it's diet) and looked very little like a fox FFS!
I learned all this in elementary and jr. high school mostly, but have forgotten most of it since then.
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so this is what started discovery channel and perhaps mythbusters sad little scary and interesting
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@TruegrassBoy You're kidding, right? The 1812 Overture? Napoleon laying waste to Russia?
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They got a lot of this right, which surprised me because it's an 80-yr. old film.
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@obsoehollerith lol
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The "1812" may have been inspired by a war, but it is such a grand composition that it would be apprpriate to underscore the formation of the universe. Interesting choice, Ira. I especially recommend the famed Mercury recording by Antal Dorati in the 1950's, complete with thunderous real cannons from West Point...an unmatched audio experience, even by today's standards.
The music is appropriate....
TruegrassBoy 2 years ago 4
So they had all this information 80 years ago, but a majority of people STILL believe that the earth was made a few thousand years ago by a majical creature in the sky..
Timmoux 1 year ago