Our Heavenly Bodies

1925 · 92 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 187 VOTES · DIR. Hanns Walter Kornblum

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Overview

Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Dialogue Timeline — 455 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:00 The reconstruction of OUR HEAVENLY BODIES
00:02:11 And to revere in silence that which cannot be explored. Goethe
00:05:47 according to the Ptolemaic view.
00:09:37 not yet accepted by the church, as heresy.
00:12:19 Only one force acts on the falling fruit - Earth's gravity.
00:15:07 However the sight of the starry skies constantly brings new revelations
00:18:11 But in its last quarter, not until midnight.
00:22:18 The most important constellations of the northern skies
00:26:08 These tails always turned away from the sun
00:29:37 and Summer and Winter and day and night
00:32:44 a solar eclipse in advance.
00:37:46 At the same time, Papua in the South Seas, goes to rest.
00:43:27 The North Pole gradually turns away from the Sun.
00:47:29 The temperature gauge has dropped to -273 Celsius.
00:51:22 We set out on our journey through space.
00:54:11 We know that Mars has Summer and Winter
00:57:35 Otherwise we might experience our childhood story of Lilliput.
01:02:12 at the glorious spectacle of the planet orbited by its six inner moons.
01:06:58 But all the planets together
01:09:16 Formed by the farthest stars of our system.
01:13:14 Two suns that revolve around each other.
01:16:20 And yet precise observations have shown that the fixed stars too
01:18:56 which then separate themselves as independent planets.
01:25:31 And there shall be signs in the Sun, and in the Moon and in the stars.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed455
Dialogue density4.9 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:25:31

Production Record

DirectorHanns Walter Kornblum
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes187