Science Sunday!
I wanted to do something a little different today. From 1960 and those wonderful folks at Shell Oil, “A Light In Nature”.
This isn’t a film about a specific area of science, but: “…shows scientific research and the creative process of discovery in probing radioactivity, astronomy, materials science, geology, biophysics, oceanography, the discovery of DNA, etc.” 1960 was the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society, and this was apparently sort of a tie-in to that. There’s some awesome vintage video of members of the Royal Society smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo hanging out, if you’re fond of early 1960s style.
Bonus: Space history counts as science, right?
“Apollo 8 Go For TLI”, a NASA documentary about the mission.