Note that Richard Carlson, along with starring in this film, also directed it. The theme that plays whenever Meteora is onscreen is “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” a song Carlson sang beautifully in his 1940 film, “Beyond Tomorrow”! Carlson often referenced other works from his career when he wrote and/or directed!
Wow. I saw this during science class back in the mid-to-late 80s. This installment of the Bell educational films is my favorite. I particularly had a crush on goddess Meteora. Such a sassy dame she is. At the time, I put her in my top 5 cartoon crushes. Thanx 4 posting!
The Zeroth Law of Arithmetic taught in Kindergarten is that BIG numbers are more significant than tiny numbers. Global warming is a tiny number compared to BIG numbers like Urban Heat Island Effect and other BIG numbers. That is why "worrying about this stuff back in the 1950's" appeals to those who flunked Kindergarten.
The film and the other Bell movies are detailed in my new book, SONNETS AND SUNSPOTS DR RESEARCH BAXTER AND THE BELL SCIENCE FILMS available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bearmanor Media... worked on this book for 5 years!!
These films are some of my most treasured memories in grade school back in the 60's! I'll be sure to look for your book as well. What a glorious time to grow up and enjoy this country.
Saw a reference to this film on the 'American Masters' Earth Day broadcast. I recognized the old guy. Okay.....the Bell Lab Science Series. I recall seeing these back in the 1960s in school. These were pretty good, compared to most of the old films they made us sit thru.
Compared to today's technology, this film seems primitive, but the basic principles remain sound. Also, nowadays, the subject of "weather control" is almost a forbidden subject, due to long-range environmental concerns.
What I found funny watching this again was no mention of satellite photographs. The show was priceless though. I saw Frank Capra and his son in Nashville when they were shooting a movie back in December 1984. It starting snowing outside the hotel in Music City, and everyone got excited. Frank Capra said "What's the big deal?!"
Alberto Knox I know that. Usually in science they talk about what future technology will bring, but nothing was mentioned in this film. The first satellite wasn't launched until 1957. So 1958, the producer must have thought the concept unimaginable.
No, ya gotta know that things take time, and then business was not as quarterly minded as today, and less incoporated versus partnerships, and not so long ago a Depression and a WWII. Rocketry in infancy, NASA was tiny,and a response to soviets and replaced the NACA, created during Wright brothers time, first year was 1958, and an agency of the executive branch and done by Eisenhower. NASA has done more with weather satellites and space exploration and basic science to do with the Sun and so on, study of Venus prompted climate change ideas, temperatures had no basics for why the planet was ever warm, since at one time it was a snowball, frozen over, volcanoes thawed it out and belched out CO2, which the Sunlight was then kept in rather than reflected back out and Runaway Greenhouse was said to be the mechanism for the relatively constant warmness of the planet, with the CO2 being a boon for creating plant growth as well as creating oxygen and the different planetary position that give the seasons also controls temperature. So, as devices go, even the transistor(transfer resistor) that made it all possible due to its size and temperature while operating and its payload miniscule and is more advantageous than the alternative, the vacuum tube, the only other choice. Without being able to control electric currents through variablility of the material, near impossible for any devices we have today. There's a reason germanium and silicone were the main materials for basic transistors. Actually, transistor isn't the fundamental device mechanism, it's the diode, material of the n side to the p side, in which depending on the doping, adding to increase permeability of either more holes versus electrons(p and n refer to charges, n-egative versus p-ositive. Holes accept electrons, and doped material with increased holes more readily accepts more electrons say those built into a fully charged battery, weirdly the positive terminal is packed with holes, or material that readily accepts the negative charged electrons and hence electron flow or current. Those materials, by injecting or doping the material to reject or accept electrons, and hence flow, control isn't possible. They are so named semiconductors, due to the immense variability of current flow as determined by the material, the added impurities(doping), the external controllers attached, resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc. That one breakthrough by AT&T, Bell Laboratories made what we have technologically possible. From then room sized Mainframes who can't today match even the cheapest Smartphone's capability. Also, weird that a fully charged battery with a positive terminal as the one without the charges, the negatively charged electrons, are packed in the negative terminal, creating the connection device that uses the electron flow to operate has to be hooked to the positive terminal, and then the electrons are attracted to the positive terminal, creating flow on its way to ground(I know, ground is thought of as the battery's negative), the actions are correct, but the direction description had a history of confusion. It should be noted that holes and filling them creates flow, once it starts then the electrons then just barrel through like a bull in a china shop, knocking into the ones in front of them, and as long as the difference of potential is there flow will go on. Sounds tricky, and is, has to do with naming convention and Ben Franklin. The electron seeks to fill a shell that needs it to complete its outer shell to be stable, whereas donor material seeks to shed its charges(readily giving up electrons easily=radiation). There was controversy over whether negative goes to positive or vice versa, seems Ben Franklin sided with the wrong one, and in use today is the other, I think. Peace
Richard Carlson portrayed the writer, he also directed this film. He was in Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came From Outer Space, and Ivan Tors' "A"-Men Trilogy: The Magnetic Monster, Gog and Riders of the Sky (which he also directed).
I remember the Bell Science series from grade school. I also read a lot of mythology back then, and I remembered that gods and goddesses seemed to have little compunction about removing inconvenient spouses. I hope Mrs. Professor Science didn't end up on the business end of a lightning bolt or something.
Richard Carlson always had this appealing introspective quality to him and seemed to be very much the academician he aspired to be in real life. This lent a very convincing element to the scientists he played in sci-fi films and educational films like this. I see he also directed this one, and quite well. Thanks for sharing this rarity!
Oh, me as well! As a kid, I always wanted to be the kind of brave, handsome scientists he so often played in his sci-fi films (like here). Little did I know then that one day, I'd move to Minneapolis and my house was just a block away from his former high school. 😉
Fun Facts: a) Boreas actually DOES blow only north. He's only the Greek god of the NORTH wind; there's one for each cardinal direction. b) Cirrus isn't from any mythology, but he is named for cirrus clouds. Cirrus is Latin for "curl", which is why they call him "Curly". c) Thor's design here looks ODDLY similar to Unhygenix, the village fishmonger from the Asterix comics, but this was made a few years before the first Asterix book.
Sophisticated for its time. Still watchable after nearly sixty years. Replace the imagery of the 1950s with current images, and it would look really good.
I remember seeing these wonderful Bell films in elementary school in the 1960s. They were entertaining and memorable then...and now too! They make several scientific phenomena understandable. Perhaps our elected officials would benefit from a viewing (with popcorn of course).
@@ushoys the scientific data was clear as a bell already by then, so not even close to being prescient. between 'petrol industry bullshit' and 'most people not understanding a lick about exponential growth until it's way too late', we whiffed badly re: addressing AGW in time.
Baxter was an English professor, not a scientist. Sort of a Bill Nye type. But they're right about the causation of so called global warming: it's the sun, which drives all weather/climate
I don't like how this documentary is so willing to dispense with religious figures on a whim. I do like how it is a good place to start understanding how complex something as simple as the wind is.
Showed this in my 7th grade class for many years. Never got tired of watching it each year. Much of this is still applicable today.
Note that Richard Carlson, along with starring in this film, also directed it. The theme that plays whenever Meteora is onscreen is “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” a song Carlson sang beautifully in his 1940 film, “Beyond Tomorrow”! Carlson often referenced other works from his career when he wrote and/or directed!
I think his singing was actually dubbed, but who knows? He was a very multi-talented guy!
Wow. I saw this during science class back in the mid-to-late 80s. This installment of the Bell educational films is my favorite. I particularly had a crush on goddess Meteora. Such a sassy dame she is. At the time, I put her in my top 5 cartoon crushes. Thanx 4 posting!
+Kwaj I saw it in 1968 :)
Still watching in 2021!
Nice to know someone was worrying about this stuff back in the 1950's!!
It's an indictment of US politics to the present.
The Zeroth Law of Arithmetic taught in Kindergarten is that BIG numbers are more significant than tiny numbers. Global warming is a tiny number compared to BIG numbers like Urban Heat Island Effect and other BIG numbers. That is why "worrying about this stuff back in the 1950's" appeals to those who flunked Kindergarten.
The painter was voiced by character actor Franklin Pangborn. It was sadly his last role since that same year in 1958, he passed away during surgery.
I loved this film when I was in middle school.
Same, came here to rewatch it
Thanks so much for this video, I was 8 when I first saw it. Seeing it now, and thinking back, just asfascinated as I was then.
The film and the other Bell movies are detailed in my new book, SONNETS AND SUNSPOTS DR RESEARCH BAXTER AND THE BELL SCIENCE FILMS available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bearmanor Media... worked on this book for 5 years!!
These films are some of my most treasured memories in grade school back in the 60's! I'll be sure to look for your book as well. What a glorious time to grow up and enjoy this country.
Saw a reference to this film on the 'American Masters' Earth Day broadcast. I recognized the old guy. Okay.....the Bell Lab Science Series. I recall seeing these back in the 1960s in school. These were pretty good, compared to most of the old films they made us sit thru.
Excellent! Thank you! Consider joining the Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) in your county throughout the United States.
ccl is another liberal fictitiously origination just to get money for some ones pockets again.
The climate clowns lobby you mean.
Compared to today's technology, this film seems primitive, but the basic principles remain sound. Also, nowadays, the subject of "weather control" is almost a forbidden subject, due to long-range environmental concerns.
One of the films shown at my school in 1966. Going to check You Tube for Signal 30.
What I found funny watching this again was no mention of satellite photographs. The show was priceless though. I saw Frank Capra and his son in Nashville when they were shooting a movie back in December 1984. It starting snowing outside the hotel in Music City, and everyone got excited. Frank Capra said "What's the big deal?!"
+hydrogenalpha filmed in 1958. ther were no weather satellites.
Alberto Knox I know that. Usually in science they talk about what future technology will bring, but nothing was mentioned in this film. The first satellite wasn't launched until 1957. So 1958, the producer must have thought the concept unimaginable.
No, ya gotta know that things take time, and then business was not as quarterly minded as today, and less incoporated versus partnerships, and not so long ago a Depression and a WWII.
Rocketry in infancy, NASA was tiny,and a response to soviets and replaced the NACA, created during Wright brothers time, first year was 1958, and an agency of the executive branch and done by Eisenhower. NASA has done more with weather satellites and space exploration and basic science to do with the Sun and so on, study of Venus prompted climate change ideas, temperatures had no basics for why the planet was ever warm, since at one time it was a snowball, frozen over, volcanoes thawed it out and belched out CO2, which the Sunlight was then kept in rather than reflected back out and Runaway Greenhouse was said to be the mechanism for the relatively constant warmness of the planet, with the CO2 being a boon for creating plant growth as well as creating oxygen and the different planetary position that give the seasons also controls temperature.
So, as devices go, even the transistor(transfer resistor) that made it all possible due to its size and temperature while operating and its payload miniscule and is more advantageous than the alternative, the vacuum tube, the only other choice. Without being able to control electric currents through variablility of the material, near impossible for any devices we have today. There's a reason germanium and silicone were the main materials for basic transistors.
Actually, transistor isn't the fundamental device mechanism, it's the diode, material of the n side to the p side, in which depending on the doping, adding to increase permeability of either more holes versus electrons(p and n refer to charges, n-egative versus p-ositive. Holes accept electrons, and doped material with increased holes more readily accepts more electrons say those built into a fully charged battery, weirdly the positive terminal is packed with holes, or material that readily accepts the negative charged electrons and hence electron flow or current. Those materials, by injecting or doping the material to reject or accept electrons, and hence flow, control isn't possible. They are so named semiconductors, due to the immense variability of current flow as determined by the material, the added impurities(doping), the external controllers attached, resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc. That one breakthrough by AT&T, Bell Laboratories made what we have technologically possible. From then room sized Mainframes who can't today match even the cheapest Smartphone's capability.
Also, weird that a fully charged battery with a positive terminal as the one without the charges, the negatively charged electrons, are packed in the negative terminal, creating the connection device that uses the electron flow to operate has to be hooked to the positive terminal, and then the electrons are attracted to the positive terminal, creating flow on its way to ground(I know, ground is thought of as the battery's negative), the actions are correct, but the direction description had a history of confusion. It should be noted that holes and filling them creates flow, once it starts then the electrons then just barrel through like a bull in a china shop, knocking into the ones in front of them, and as long as the difference of potential is there flow will go on. Sounds tricky, and is, has to do with naming convention and Ben Franklin. The electron seeks to fill a shell that needs it to complete its outer shell to be stable, whereas donor material seeks to shed its charges(readily giving up electrons easily=radiation). There was controversy over whether negative goes to positive or vice versa, seems Ben Franklin sided with the wrong one, and in use today is the other, I think.
Peace
...the guy with hair is from Earth vs. The Flying Saucers and The Day the Earth Stood Still...
+Marty Buchanan Eddie Albert did one of the shows too!
+Marty Buchanan And Creature From The Black Lagoon!!!
And the guy with the glasses gives the lecture at the beginning of The Mole People.
+Marty Buchanan Wait....Richard Carlson wasn't in Day the Earth Stood Still or Earth vs The Flying Saucers....that was Hugh Marlowe
Doppelgangers
Richard Carlson portrayed the writer, he also directed this film. He was in Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came From Outer Space, and Ivan Tors' "A"-Men Trilogy: The Magnetic Monster, Gog and Riders of the Sky (which he also directed).
Which suite was the music in this from?
Talking about climate change in 1958, interesting.
Meteora deserved better at the end. I don’t care if your married.
A real gem. Looking for it fir ages since I watched it on our national TV (Iran) some 40 years ago. Finally fount it (Love it)
I remember the Bell Science series from grade school. I also read a lot of mythology back then, and I remembered that gods and goddesses seemed to have little compunction about removing inconvenient spouses. I hope Mrs. Professor Science didn't end up on the business end of a lightning bolt or something.
This art style seems to strongly influence Pixar’s Soul (2020)
Richard Carlson always had this appealing introspective quality to him and seemed to be very much the academician he aspired to be in real life. This lent a very convincing element to the scientists he played in sci-fi films and educational films like this. I see he also directed this one, and quite well. Thanks for sharing this rarity!
They knew it in 1958 and did nothing about it.
Am a big fan of Carlson's. Grew up seeing him in so many SF films and other projects. Very likable actor/very fine in many roles.
Oh, me as well! As a kid, I always wanted to be the kind of brave, handsome scientists he so often played in his sci-fi films (like here). Little did I know then that one day, I'd move to Minneapolis and my house was just a block away from his former high school. 😉
Pretty good explanation of "Coriolis Force!"
I first saw this back in grade school, and have been looking for it forever!
I know how that feels. I watched this when I was in Middle School in the six grade.
Likewise
Fun Facts: a) Boreas actually DOES blow only north. He's only the Greek god of the NORTH wind; there's one for each cardinal direction. b) Cirrus isn't from any mythology, but he is named for cirrus clouds. Cirrus is Latin for "curl", which is why they call him "Curly". c) Thor's design here looks ODDLY similar to Unhygenix, the village fishmonger from the Asterix comics, but this was made a few years before the first Asterix book.
Sophisticated for its time. Still watchable after nearly sixty years. Replace the imagery of the 1950s with current images, and it would look really good.
I'd exchange him for all the teachers i had.
I loved the films when I was a child, and because of that, I bought the DVDs!
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The guy from Earth vs. The Flying Saucers!
Which guy here?
What about a rainbow? Can you talk about where rainbows come from?
OMG I saw this in little people school.
I remember seeing these wonderful Bell films in elementary school in the 1960s. They were entertaining and memorable then...and now too! They make several scientific phenomena understandable. Perhaps our elected officials would benefit from a viewing (with popcorn of course).
50:14 one of the earliest mentions of AGW.
Amazingly prescient
@@ushoys the scientific data was clear as a bell already by then, so not even close to being prescient.
between 'petrol industry bullshit' and 'most people not understanding a lick about exponential growth until it's way too late', we whiffed badly re: addressing AGW in time.
The last B-29s in USAF service were the ones shown in this film as the first hurricane hunters.
Childhood memories from the 1960s...
Saw this and others in this series when they first aired on network prime time tv.
UPA worked on this?
coriolis effect always sounds sexual to me.....
Baxter was an English professor, not a scientist. Sort of a Bill Nye type. But they're right about the causation of so called global warming: it's the sun, which drives all weather/climate
Liberals think they can control everything on the earth.
Do you still believe this? Have you read about greenhouse gases and the observed phenomena of their trapping heat?
He’s already married? To who?
Anyone here from Dr.Stanicks class?
+Impossibear This is who, exactly?
+Shourav Saha kenny
Hello
I don't like how this documentary is so willing to dispense with religious figures on a whim. I do like how it is a good place to start understanding how complex something as simple as the wind is.
I mean, aside from Boreas they’re all original characters, not even actual Greek gods as far as I know.