https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/d6143104-47a2-410e-b8b5-9d101bb22d6f Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1969 film "The Time of Man" presents an overview of human development, highlighting historic threats to survival (TRT 49:15). It was directed by Marshall Flaum, edited by Nicholas Clapp, narrated by Richard Basehart, with score by Lyn Murray. It was produced by MPC in association with the Museum of Natural History as part of the Centennial “Can Man Survive?” exhibit, which was the first multimedia environmental installation of its kind. Note: The film contains footage shot by Robert Gardner as part of his landmark film 'Dead Birds' at 00:28:24:09 - 00:33:36:10. This content remains the property of Documentary Educational Resources and is not available for license from Periscope Film. The film "Dead Birds" can be found here: https://store.der.org/dead-birds-p858.aspx A gorilla child and silverback (0:06). A rocket launch (0:26). A nude man in an urban environment (0:31). Title card (0:51). Exhaust from trains and trucks. Freeways. Dead fish and polluted waters. A tree felled by a chainsaw (1:23). Stumps transition to high-rise skyscrapers (2:12). An animated blue light forms a blazing ball. Interstellar views and a sunset overlaid by an eruption of red hot lava (2:32). Time-lapse skies. Rolling waves and ocean breakers (3:41). Microphotography of a cell dividing. A diorama of a coral reef (4:13). Dr. C. Robert Smith, puts on flippers, a diving mask, and oxygen tank (4:48). Fish swim among coral underwater. Reef fish and a long-spined sea urchin (5:10). Dr. Smith speaks (6:01). A diorama of a taxidermy eagle at the American Museum of Natural History (6:26). A taxidermy buffalo bull, walrus, and tiger. A model Blue Whale (6:39). An early truck off-road in b&w footage depicting the 1923 “Central Asiatic Expeditions” by Roy Chapman Andrews (7:19). Truck wheels spin in Mongolian mud, the Gobi Desert. A man kicks a camel. Camels rise and march across the desert (7:34). Picking through rocks for a fossil. A fossilized dinosaur egg is excavated (8:05). Renderings of dinosaurs (9:07). Rock formations in Lance Creek, Wyoming. Anthills and Dr. Malcolm McKenna (9:33). An ant carries a rock (10:42). A dinosaur bone is excavated (10:59). African giraffes, gazelles, bison, birds in silhouette (12:48). A lioness and cub. Male lions stalk, chase, and eat wildebeest (13:48). Sunlight. The Serengeti plains. Elephants dig (14:33). Snakes and zebras drink. A rhino (15:18). A dead zebra. A gazelle fawn (16:01). Birds of prey scavenge. Vultures (16:46). Montage of animals in water (17:37). Aerial view (18:16). Chimpanzees (18:21). Busts of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon men (19:44). Sketches of early men with tools and fire (20:34). Drawings and wax figures of Pygmy people (21:43). Anthropologist Colin Turnbull (21:58). Footage of Pygmies gathering sticks. Children swing and jump rope (22:36). Bantou people (23:20). A boy runs a gauntlet in an initiation rite (23:48). Ik people sit in shade (24:44). An Ik village of huts (26:18). A mother lights a pipe. Gaunt Ik elders walk slowly (26:17). Dugum Dani or Ndani natives of Western New Guinea charge with spears. Dancing. A man climbs a watchtower (28:27). A birds-eye-view.(29:08). Fire on the plains. Warriors throw spears (29:54). Wounded men. A boy’s funeral (31:45). A pig is sacrificed. Mourning and building a pyre (32:20). Margaret Mead (33:37). Mead is helped from a boat by children in New Guinea. She greets her hosts (34:22). A diorama of outrigger canoes (35:40). Mead’s visit (36:20). Rocket launches. Mission control (37:12). Extended montage: Edison, Kinetoscopes, Teddy Roosevelt, the Wright Brothers, Charlie Chaplin for “Liberty Bonds,” U.S. sailors, German WWI soldiers, Lenin, assembly lines, the Charleston, Babe Ruth, Lindberg, Depression-era soup lines, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, the Roosevelts, Einstein, Gandhi, Hitler, scenes of the Holocaust, Hirohito, firing squads, Mussolini, Chamberlain, bombs (37:43). Montage continues: Occupied France. Horrific footage of a WWII concentration camp. Planes dropping bombs. Winston Churchill, Normandie, DeGaulle. An atomic blast, Japanese radiation victims, Stalin, Mao, Castro, JFK, Nixon, Alan Shepard, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, The Beatles, Jack Ruby, Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, MLK, Bobby Kennedy, a jetpack (40:13). Apollo 11 (43:17). Urban pollution and a growing population (43:43). Dr. Harry Shapiro (44:53). Slides projected over Dr. Shapiro (45:51). End credits (48:03). 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