MAN STUDIES THE COSMOS

Year Published: 1970s

Description:

This is a 1970s Soviet-era film that outlines the major achievements of the Soviet Union in space and the merits of space exploration. The film also outlines the advantages of the space program and the new technology that allows satellites to provide vital information about potentially harmful weather events. In the film, footage of important satellites and space stations is shown, such as Sputnik 1 and the Salyut 7 space station.

00:08 Opening title 00:12 Views of forest 00:17 View of waves crashing onto a beach 00:22 Snowy mountain landscape 00:33 Constellation in space 00:45 Opening Title: ‘Why Do People Need Space’ 00:53 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky reading a book 00:58 Steam train 1:01 Early version of an airplane 1:05 Flyer reading ‘Research: World Space Jet Instruments’ 1:09 Photographic portrait of Tsiolkovsky 1:18 Sputnik 1 Satellite launch 1:33 Diagram of Planet 1:43 Illustration of Sputnik 1 in space 1:48 Technician working on Sputnik 1 1:58 Unidentified satellite 2:00 Satellite (DS-MO Kosmos 149?) 2:02 Unidentified satellite  2:05 Satellite (Potentially Luna 3 Spacecraft?) 2:17 Footage of Yuri Gagarin preparing for flight 2:20 View of earth from space 2:37 Space station being assembled 2:43 Space station taking off 2:54 Satellite in space 3:00 Cosmonaut in spaceship 3:10 Spaceship in space (Salyut?) 3:15 Cosmonauts in spaceship 3:29 Workers in laboratory  3:45 Images of a fierce storm in a tropical location 4:00 Unidentified satellite in space 4:06 Images of storm from space 4:13 Star constellations from space 4:21 Women at measurement site at a weather station 4:31 Man at measurement site at a weather station in the mountains 4:55 Soviet Union era early computer 5:07 Bow of ship at sea 5:14 Unidentified satellite in space 5:32 Broadcaster on television 5:37 Soviet Molniya 1 satellite 5:41 Photographs of space (potentially taken from satellites?) 6:03 Soviet era tape drives (?) 6:21 Satellite images from space of Earth 6:24 Mountain climbers in mountain pass (potentially Dyatlov Pass?) 6:33 footage of a mountain river stream 6:40 Three men in a row boat 6:42 Women wading through water in flooded house 6:45 Soviet era lorry 7:01 Man ice climbing 7:06 Man measuring temperature of snow and taking notes  7:14 Footage of a flooded river 7:29 View of Almaty, Kazakhstan 7:32 Analogue clock flashing 7:33 Man pressing a button in a machine 7:34 Explosion outdoors on a hill causing a landslide 7:53 Women in a control room pressing buttons 7:57 Aerial view of streams in a forest landscape 8:05 View of earth through a microscope 8:07 Soviet era trawler in the ocean with fishing net 8:12 Underwater view of fish swimming into a fishing net in the water 8:15 A fishing net hauling up hundreds of caught fish 8:19 Aerial view of farmlands 8:24 Man in a Kirovet K-700 tractor in a field 8:31 Wheat blowing in the wind 8:45 Family holding hands and walking with glass contraptions on their heads 8:54 A series of different flags blowing in the wind on flag poles 8:57 Men working on Kopernik 500 9:07 Indian mother walking with two children 9:09 Unidentified rocket launch 9:16 American and an unidentified flag 9:18 Skylab in space 9:44 Salyut space station (or possibly Mir ?) 9:51 Children watching diagram of satellite 10:15 Aerial views of a forest 10:26 Credits