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Chapters: Universe, Astronomical Almanac, Minor Planet Circular, Minor Planet Electronic Circular, Eso/st-Ecf Science Archive Facility. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Universe is a black-and-white short documentary made in 1960 by the National Film Board of Canada. It dramatizes the nightly work of an astronomer at the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario, a facility that is owned and operated by the University of Toronto, Canada. The film was a nominee at the 33rd Academy Awards in the category of Best Documentary Short Subject in 1961. In the film, the astronomer prepares his equipment and then photographs by long exposure one star, using the technology of his era (to check that it works, he sets off a flare!). The short film then presents special effects which show an exploding nebula. Douglas Rain did the narration for the English version; the French version was titled Notre univers with narration by Gilles Pelletier. Eldon Rathburn composed the musical score. After this work, co-director Colin Low worked with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey, but as that was a color film the same special effects would not work. His work on this short may have influenced Kubrick to begin his project. Kubrick also chose Universe narrator Douglas Rain as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer. Over a dozen awards, including Best Animated Film at BAFTA. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1155739 ... Read more