- Description:
- DVD - Region 1.   reference copy.   2 videodiscs of 2.
color and b/w.  
fullscreen.   sound.  
- Notes:
- Essay book and 3D glasses available from checkout.
Titles
+ Meteorites
- Director:
- Klushantsev, Pavel
- Production Co:
- Leningrad Studio of Popular Science Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1947
- Language:
- Russian with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Educational
- Notes:
- On Disc 1. Soviet popular science film exploring the astronomical origins and cultural significance of “stones from the sky.”
+ Big Bounce, The
- Director:
- Fairbanks, Jerry
- Production Co:
- Jerry Fairbanks Productions; Bell Labs
- Running Time:
- Short.   15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1960
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Industrial
- Notes:
- On Disc 1. Bell Labs builds a giant aluminum space ball in the name of global telecommunications. Supplemental features include: audio commentary by Megan Prelinger.
+ Chimp Recovery
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- RCA Service Company
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1961
- Genre:
- Documentary, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- On Disc 1. Footage of Ham, the first space chimp, the day after his landmark Mercury flight and splashdown, Feb 1, 1961. Supplemental features include: audio commentary by Greg Wilsbacher; additional footage (6 min).
+ Project Apollo
- Director:
- Emshwiller, Ed
- Production Co:
- USIA
- Running Time:
- Short.   30 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1968
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Propaganda, Educational, Sci Fi
- Notes:
- On Disc 1. US Information Agency propaganda film by SciFi illustrator & experimental filmmaker Emshwiller. Supplemental features include: introduction by Robert Haller (1999, 10 min)
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Galaxies
- Director:
- Schwartz, Lillian
- Production Co:
- Bell Labs
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1974
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Female Directors
- Notes:
- On Disc 1. NOTE: Watch with 3D glasses (available from checkout). Artistic depiction of NASA telescopic data about disc galaxies. Score by computer music pioneer F.R. Moore.
+ Teenage Cosmonauts
- Director:
- Rodachenko, Igor
- Production Co:
- Ukraine Newsreel and Documentary Film Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1979
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Propaganda, Documentary
- Notes:
- On Disc 1. English-dubbed Soviet propaganda about the education and training of cosmonaut hopefuls.
+ Zenith Star: Experiment in Space
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- US Department of Defense; Martin Marrietta
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1987
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Propaganda, Industrial
- Notes:
- On Disc 1. Defense contractor Martin Marrietta’s corporate video selling Pres. Reagan’s vision of Star Wars technology.
+ These Blazeing Starrs!
- Alternate Title:
- ...These Blazeing Starrs!
- Director:
- Stratman, Deborah
- Production Co:
- Pythagoras Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   14 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2011
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- On Disc 1. An artistic look at comets, using images from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and post-medieval European broadsides.
+ Trip to the Planets, A
- Director:
- uncredited
- Running Time:
- Short.   17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Year:
- [1920s]
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Educational, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- On Disc 2. Silent with optional musical accompaniment by Agatha Kasprzyk & Rafaël Leloup (2011). Bizarre compilation of unidentified educational films, featuring constructivist designs, flight simulation, and cosmologies, both religious and scientific. Supplemental features include: audio commentary by Megan Prelinger.
+ Beyond the Moon
- Director:
- Barnes, R.E.
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1960 - 1962
- Genre:
- Amateur / Home Movie, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- On Disc 2. Silent with optional musical accompaniment by Agatha Kasprzyk & Rafaël Leloup (2011). Amateur film using miniatures to imagine a rocket voyage to Mars. Supplemental features include: audio commentary by Megan Prelinger.
+ Flatt and Scruggs Grand Ole Opry Show, The [Excerpts featuring Jake and Josh]
- Alternate Title:
- They’re Gonna Put a Monkey on the Moon; Sputnik Dog
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- WSM TV
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1961
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Television Production, Performance, Musical
- Notes:
- On Disc 2. Songs performed: “They’re Gonna Put A Monkey on the Moon” and “Sputnik Dog”
+ Carillon (Christmas) Parade
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- WNOK; WIS-TV
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1968
- Genre:
- Television Production, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- On Disc 2. Local TV newsfilm of annual Main Street parade with Grand Marshal Captain Kirk of Star Trek. Supplemental features include: audio commentary by Dan Streible.
+ Astrovac: Zero Gravity Personal Body Wash Unit
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Fairchild-Republic
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1970
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Industrial, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- On Disc 2. Silent with optional soundtrack by Andrew & Christopher Insignares (2011). How might astronauts keep themselves clean while in orbit?
+ UFOs
- Director:
- Schwartz, Lillian; Knowlton, Ken
- Production Co:
- AT&T
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1971
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation, Female Directors
- Notes:
- On Disc 2. NOTE: Watch with 3D glasses (available from checkout). Promotional film for AT&T.
+ Men In Orbit
- Director:
- Lurie, John
- Running Time:
- Short.   42 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1979
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Sci Fi
- Notes:
- On Disc 2. Previously thought lost. No Wave sci fi film, filmed primarily in one apartment, originally shot on Super 8mm.