Our Mr. Sun

Our Mr. Sun is a onehour American 1956 television film in Technicolor written, produced, and directed by Frank Capra. It is a documentary that explains how the Sun works and how it also plays a huge part in human life. It was first televised by CBS in 1956.

The film opens with Dr. Research Dr. Frank C. Baxter and the Writer Eddie Albert meeting Father Time Lionel Barrymore and Mr. Sun Marvin Miller who explain that time started a few billion years ago and that the Sun is a star. Mr. Sun explains that he was worshipped as various gods Shamash, Mithra, Ra and Apollo until Anaxagoras proclaimed the Sun was a very hot stone and not a god. Logic and reasoning were the beginning of the end of worshiping the Sun as algebra and the astrolabe were used to study the heavens.Dr. Research explains that the Sun is 93 million miles away and its light takesminutes to reach the earth. Light from the next closest star, Alpha Centauri, takes more thanyears to get to us at a speed greater than 186,000 miles per second. The sun weighs the same as 330,000 earths and is 95 hydrogen and helium gas and not solid. The Sun is compressed by gravity so tightly that the gas at the center is more than 100 times heavier than water with a pressure of one billion tons per square inch while the surface is about one pound per square inch. The center ismillion degrees Fahrenheit while the surface is only 10,000 degrees, but the corona ismillion degrees Fahrenheit though nobody knows why, so scientists study the corona during each solar eclipse. ........

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