Specialty CollectionGenre: TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, GENERAL
Description: SCIENCE FILM - HISTORY OF LIGHT PRESENTS THE STORY OF LIGHT THROUGH THE AGES, FROM THE TIME OF THE CAVEMEN TO THE PRESENT. USES ANIMATION, LIVE AND MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY TO PORTRAY THE DEVELOPMENT OF ILLUMINATION AS IT PROGRESSED FROM FIRE THROUGH THE METAL LAMP OF 400 A.D., THE CANDLE. WHOLE OIL LAMP, KEROSENE LAMP. GAS LIGHTS, ARC LAMP. THE INCAN DESCENT LAMP AS INVENTED BY EDISON. SHOWS THE CONTINUED PERFECTING OF THE INCANDESCENT LAMP TO THE PRESENT AND THE EXTENT OF ITS IMPACT UPON SOCIETY. THE DAWN OF TIME. SWIRLS OF GASES. SOUND BYTE, "AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT". EARTH GLOBE. STOP MOTION ANIMATION. CAVEMAN FAMILY RUN INTO CAVE, FRIGHTENED BY LIGHTNING. LIGHTNING STRIKES TREE. TREE BURSTS INTO FLAMES, FALLS DOWN. CAVEMAN CAUTIOUSLY WALKS TOWARD FIRE. PREHISTORIC TIMES ALA "FANTASIA". HOLDS STICK OF FIRE. TORCH EGYPTIANS. PHARAOH. MUMMY'S TOMB. BURIAL OIL LAMP OF GREEKS AND ROMANS. STATUES. JESUS ON CRUCIFIX. MONK WRITING BIBLE BY CANDLELIGHT. CANDLE CHANDELIER OF MEDIEVAL TIMES. FEASTING. VICTORIAN ERA. SILHOUETTE OF PEOPLE WALTZING. CANDLE SNUFFER SNUFFS OUT CRYSTAL CHANDELIER. WHALING SHIP. KEGS OF WHALE OIL. KEROSENE LAMPS OF COLONIAL TIMES. LIGHTS GO OUT. GAS LAMPS AT TURN-OF-CENTURY. FIRST LIGHT BULB LIT. STREET LAMPS GO ON IN CITY. EDISON'S LAB. DEMONSTRATING LIGHT BULB. REPLACES GAS LAMPS. PHONOGRAPH PLAYER. MONTAGE OF HOMES AS TIME PROGRESSES. 1920s, 1930s, 1940s. "MODERN" LIVING ROOM OF THE 1950s.
