The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957)
Movies & Documentaries • 54m
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays is an examination of what cosmic rays are and how they work. It was written by Capra with Jonathan Latimer, a crime fiction novelist and screenwriter. As Gilbert describes it, the third and fourth films "repeated the formulas of his earlier work while ever searching for new contrivances for popularization as well as the best language to express his soft religious message" and that the script was essentially a reworking of ideas Capra had developed for a possible documentary about Robert A. Millikan. The film's screenplay works from the premise that the nature of cosmic rays is a mystery comparable to the great detective stories. A committee of marionettes representing Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe is called upon to decide the question. The film was broadcast on October 25, 1957, apparently with a smaller television audience share and with more unfavorable reviews than for the first two specials.
Up Next in Movies & Documentaries
-
Chariots of the gods (1970)
Chariots of The Gods 1970
Based on the novel Chariots of The Gods and return to the stars by Eric Von Daniken. -
Erich von Daniken - Extraterrestrial ...
Erich von Daniken examines the evidence in support of ancient extraterrestrial gods visiting our planet. The stories and text are world wide and they all talk of a time when the gods arrived from the heavens and brought great knowledge with them. Erich shows the many clues left behind in ancient ...
-
Were Arkhenatem & Nefertiti Adam & Eve
The Bible says that a river flowed through the Garden of Eden and then split into four branches. There is only one river in the Near East that does exactly this, and that is the long oasis-garden of the Nile valley and its division into the (originally) four branches of the Nile Delta. It would s...
5 Comments