https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5a179c6b-1ec6-451b-879c-9b7869abeafe Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part 1: https://youtu.be/rYGjFV8cImI From 1956 to 1964 Bell Telephone created nine televised specials; known as the Bell Science Series, for AT&T Corp originally broadcasted in color. This film titled “The Unchained Goddess” was the fourth and final film of the series produced by Frank Capra. Capra's team employed animation and scientific explanation in order to provide an in depth look on how weather forms. The film's narrative is built around a conversation between meteorologists preparing a weather program and deities of weather. The film is a unique blend of myth, humor and tension between scientific understanding as well as legendary influence on weather, and dates from an era when it was widely believed that man would be able to influence or even control weather on a global scale. Various aspects of weather are explored including the cause of wind, the Coriolis Effect, creation of thunder and lightning as well as early concerns over climate change. Concepts of weather forecasting are explored. The film visits the National Weather Analysis Center in order to explain the use of Isobaric charts in order to predict the weather. It begins with the writer, scientist, and animated Professor Coriolis discussing weather on the battlefront (:26). A diagram shows air masses and the line of air collision (:55). Research collected from Jacob Bjerknes in 1919 as the head of the Air Mass Theory is featured (1:15). Cold fronts are explored on weather maps (1:33). Wind squalls and thunderstorms tear over the ground (1:54). Warm fronts (2:06) lead to slow rains and light winds (2:10). The common newspaper weather map (2:21) is featured. The duties and job of the weather forecaster is broken down (2:46). Stunning shots watch tornado funnels touch land (4:16). Buildings shred (4:57) and property is damaged in footage of the tornados wake. Meteorologists track tornados and their paths (6:25). Hurricanes are explored (6:41); trade wins form into a spinning vortex. Hurricane hunters arrive at McKinley National Park Airport (7:57) in a USAF plane. Hunters operate radar equipment (8:15). Footage enters the center of the hurricane (8:57) as the eye of the hurricane is explained (9:13). The film tours the Joint Warning Center of Miami (9:37). Forecasters follow the path of Maggie which would later cause significant damage for the Philippines, Taiwan and Guangdong in the 1950’s (10:18). Civilians prepare their homes for the hurricane (10:49). Radio reports cancel the hurricane warnings (11:00) and later trace the storm as it moves for the Northern Bahamas (11:37). The sea swells as it touches land (12:11). Maggie is tracked at the Washington DC Weather Center (13:22). Footage of Hurricane Diane follow from 1955 (13:55). Civilians wander through the muck left in the storms wake (14:05). Various observation methods are explored (14:45). The Numerical Weather Prediction Unit at Suland, Maryland operate a giant electronic weatherman (15:04). Data is recorded on punch cards (15:09). These form prognostic charts (15:31). Isobars are traced on the chart (15:43). Research from John von Neumann and Jule Charney (16:10) are cited. Weather technology developed by the Army Signal Corp (16:36) is explained at Suland. A discussion follows on the jet stream (18:39). B-29’s from WW2 fly in formation (18:53). Early technology created to control weather include smudge pots (19:41) and man-made fires (19:48). The Headquarters of the National Hurricane Research Project (20:11) follows. Radio balloons are released (20:28). Oil fires erupt on the ocean surface (20:58). Oil slicks are pictured (21:03). The final portion of the film looks at the impact of human activity on the climate. Questions about sunspots, the warming of the atmosphere and melting of polar ice caps arise (21:16). A map shows the sea consuming the Mississippi Valley (22:35). Tourists view drowned towers in Miami (22:40). The credit screen concludes the film directed by Richard Carlson (25:05). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. 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