Cosmic Voyage

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Movie
German title Cosmic Voyage
Original title Cosmic Voyage
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 36 minutes
Rod
Director Bayley Silleck
script Michael Miner
Bayley Silleck
production Jeffrey Marvin
Bayley Silleck
music David Michael Frank
occupation

Cosmic Voyage is an IMAX - documentary - short film by Bayley Silleck from 1996. As the producer acted Jeffrey Marvin . Morgan Freeman is involved as the narrator.

The film was presented by the National Air and Space Museum and broadcast in IMAX theaters worldwide. The film is available on DVD.

Cosmic Voyage was nominated in 1997 for an Academy Award in the category " Best Documentary Short Film ".

content

In Cosmic Voyage a similar format is chosen like in the movies Cosmic Zoom of the National Film Board of Canada and the IBM -Klassiker Ten High , an instructional video. The book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke served as a template . The film takes the viewer on a journey through 42 orders of magnitude , starting with a celebration in Italy and ending with the end of the observable universe . Finally the view goes back to the earth and to the level of a drop of water , the size of a quark .

In addition, the film gives insights into the big bang theory , black holes and the development of our solar system . In addition, a journey through is Fermilab's Tevatron - Particle accelerator in Chicago simulated in the audience witnessed a nuclear collision is.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IMAX Audiences Embark on a Cosmic Voyage Through Time and Space . Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum . June 24, 1996. Archived from the original on April 4, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 4, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nasm.si.edu
  2. ^ Movies: Cosmic Voyage (1996) . In: New York Times , April 4, 2009.