Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Relativitäts-Theorie (1922)

Directed by

Hanns Walter Kornblum

Genre

documentary film, silent film, educational film

Country

Germany

Runtime

22 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1922 German silent documentary uses animation and images to explain Albert Einstein's theory of relativity to a general audience. It was made with over 80,000 individual pictures and originally ran up to three hours.

educationalinformativevisualpioneeringslow-pacedanalyticalfactualdated

What happens

Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Relativitäts-Theorie (English: The Fundamentals of the Einsteinian Relativity Theory) is a 1922 German partly animated documentary film created with the goal of bringing Einstein's theory of relativity to the broad public. It premiered on 2 April 1922 at the Frankfurt Fair. With more than 80,000 individual images, it is not only the first great science film, it is also the film with the longest trick sequences. The film's running time was between two and three hours, depending on the length of the commentaries made by the scientific presenter. While the original version of the film is lost, part of the film (around 20 minutes) was used to create Max Fleischer's film The Einstein Theory of Relativity from 1923. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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