Isaac Newton Issue Title Is Time Will Tell (1943)

Part of issue TIME WILL TELL. Woolsthorpe, Grantham, Lincolnshire. M/S of actor dressed as Sir Isaac Newton at desk. Various shots of manor house at Woolsthorpe. Various shots of actors in period costume looking through primitive telescope at open window. They look up a night sky. Animated diagrams of early telescope. Various shots of Newton and female companion shining candlelight through glass prism. Narrator tells us of Newton’s light refraction experiments. Various shots of Newton’s famous apple tree. Various shots of actor re-enacting the apple falling incident when Newton discovered gravity. C/U of hand spinning a ball on string. Animated diagrams showing how gravity works. C/U of Newton’s Principia (his book). FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pa
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