First Orbit (2011)
- Directed by
- Christopher Riley
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film uses footage from the International Space Station to recreate the view Yuri Gagarin had during the first human spaceflight in 1961. It combines this with original mission audio and a musical score.
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What happens
First Orbit is a 2011 feature-length, experimental documentary film about Vostok 1, the first human space flight around the Earth. By matching the orbit of the International Space Station to that of Vostok 1 as closely as possible, in terms of ground track and time of day, documentary filmmaker Christopher Riley and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli were able to film the view that Yuri Gagarin saw on his pioneering 1961 orbital space flight. This new footage was cut together with the original Vostok 1 mission audio recordings sourced from the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation. The film features the music of composer Philip Sheppard. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Gagarinland (2011)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.