National Film Board of Canada - Universe (1960)

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National Film Board of Canada - Universe (1960)
WEB-DL | 960x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 4547 Kbps | 27 min 43 s | 928 MiB
Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

Beginning with a dramatization of the nightly work of an astronomer at the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario, the documentary film shifts to focus on the workings of the universe. A journey to the stars is depicted in animation and takes the viewer to the boundaries of the heavenly bodies: the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Pluto, to the farthest regions of space beyond the reach of the strongest telescope, past the Sun and the Milky Way into unfathomed galaxies. NASA alone ordered over 300 prints of the film. By 1976, the NFB had sold over 3100 copies of the film, and it was one of the most widely distributed educational films ever made. 'Stanley Kubrick' viewed this film and was used as a template for the special effect shots used in his 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). He used the same panning camera effect for creating his planets. He even hired narrator Douglas Rain to voice the computer HAL.

General
Unique ID : 222715706646076885237119719429134846602 (0xA78D7C1F3A6A4B73A485FA9C10FF8A8A)
Complete name : Universe.WEB-DL.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 928 MiB
Duration : 27 min 43 s
Overall bit rate : 4 678 kb/s

Video
ID : 2
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 27 min 43 s
Bit rate : 4 547 kb/s
Width : 960 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.274
Stream size : 902 MiB (97%)
Writing library : Zencoder Video Encoding System
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 27 min 43 s
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 25.4 MiB (3%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No


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