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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website Part 1: This film “About Time“ was one of the “Bell System Science Series” , which consisted of nine educational television specials made for the AT&T Corporation and originally broadcast on TV from 1956 to 1964. This episode, hosted by Dr. Frank Baxter, focuses on the properties of time and how we track it. The screenplay was written by Richard Hobson, Nancy Pitt, and Leo Salkin. It was directed by Owen Crump. Phil Monroe directed the animations. The film starred Richard Deacon and Les Tremayne and included various consultants including famed physicist Dr. Richard Feynman. The film opens with the King's Assistant, time expert Dr. Frank Baxter, and King talking to each other (0:20). Animation representing pieces of time (1:39). Cartoon clock with a changing background (2:34). Dr. Gerald J. Wasserburg, professor of Geology and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology (3:38). Fossils and minerals (3:47). Uranium and then lead (4:08). Two men talk to each other (4:32). Balanced Rock, Arches National Park in Utah (4:35). Snow covered mountain peaks (4:39). Men beating down rocks (4:39). Grand Canyon (4:44). Time expert speaks (5:00). Sea (5:04). Desert dunes (5:17). Rain coming down hard (5:21). River going through a mountain valley (5:25). Glaciers (5:28). Dirt and rocks moving as a result of an earthquake (5:36). Lava from a volcano (5:47). Time expert talking to the assistant and the king (5:58). People reading books/newspapers on a sidewalk and someone using an air pump for a bicycle (7:16). Man shining another man’s shoe while he reads a newspaper (7:25). A.A. Michelson (9:13). Edward W. Morley (9:16). Moving car with a train moving beside it (9:35). Animation of a house on top of the Earth with light waves passing back and forth (9:57). Albert Einstein (10:49). Douglas DC-8 plane (11:25). Flight attendant delivers meals to passengers (11:30). Man attempts to take a picture with his camera while looking out the plane window (11:30). View from the plane window (11:32). Animation of a house on top of the Earth with light waves passing back and forth (11:44). Animation demonstrating why time is experienced differently (12:58). Animation of man inside a spaceship (14:02). Animation of a clock (14:19). Animation of identical twins and a spaceship and flip a coin to see who will ride in the spaceship (15:31). Animation of a rocket taking off and coming back to Earth (16:09). Welcome back party for the twin that rode in the rocket (16:28). Dr. Richard Feynman of the California Institute of Technology / Caltech speaks in front a blackboard with equations about the Theory of Relativity (17:17). Albert Einstein (17:38). Man operates a control panel (18:06). Dr. Frank Baxter, the King and the King's Assistant leave the observatory (18:08). Clock on a wall (19:49). Throne room with a massive clock (19:54). Animation of outer space (20:13). Pendulum swinging back and forth (20:43). Animation of Earth dying over the course of time (21:13). Astrophysicist using a scientific instrument (21:29). Cosmologist looking at an image from space (21:30). Scientists in a lab (21:36). Geologist studying rocks (21:43). Animation of a drop of water (21:52). Child’s birthday party (21:58). Man chopping wood (22:02). People dancing in the streets (22:05). Mother giving a glass of milk to her son (22:10). Child looking at a magazine with their grandfather (22:10). Clouds moving in the sky (22:17). People walking on the street during Christmas time (22:23). Cherry blossoms (22:27). Graveyard (22:29). Men planting seeds (22:32). Tractor harvesting (22:35). Crane picking up rocks and then dropping them (22:38). Indigenous artwork (22:41). College graduates walking in their robes (22:45). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
