Universe (1960) Documentary Short

Universe (Notre univers) is a 1960 black-and-white documentary short film narrated by Douglas Rain and made in 1960 by Roman Kroitor and Colin Low for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The NFB writes: "[The film] creates on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space. Realistic animation takes you into far regions of space, beyond the reach of the strongest telescope, past Moon, Sun, and Milky Way into galaxies yet unfathomed." <br /><br />This visualization is grounded in the nightly work of Dr. Donald MacRae, an astronomer at the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario] Using the technology of his era, MacRae prepares his largely manually-operated equipment and then photographs, by long exposure, one star. <br /><br />Influence on 2001: A Space Odyssey <br /><br />After Universe was released, Colin Low worked with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick chose narrator Douglas Rain as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer and hired cinematographer Wally Gentleman, who did optical effects for Universe, to work on 2001. <br /><br />Source: Wikipedia