Our Heavenly Bodies

It is a German educational film of 1925. Its aim is to set out what was known about the universe. It carries the knowledge of its own day. The solar system is among its subjects. Gravitation is explained as well. Stars and galaxies come in too. The account is built around a spaceship. The ship travels along the Milky Way. The planets are introduced along the route. The invented scenes grow more playful as it goes. What weightlessness does to the crew is shown, and the film asks how a person might move on Mars or Jupiter. Fifteen special effects men worked on it, nine cameramen stood behind the cameras, and the whole is divided into seven chapters. Hanns Walter Kornblum made the ninety two minute silent film, a German production finished in 1925.