“ WE ARE NOT ALONE “ 1966 SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE DOCUMENTARY WALTER SULLIVAN XD80415

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This 1966 documentary, “We Are Not Alone“ looks at the prospects for finding extraterrestrial life. Edward P. Morgan narrates this special based on Walter Sullivan’s book of the same name, which explores the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. Among the guests are Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Harold Urey, .’s Dr. Philip Morrison and NASA’s Dr. William Pickering, Dr. Carl Sagan and Dr. Howard Yuri. The film ends with footage of upcoming developments for space travel including the Voyager spacecraft and potential Mars landings. (Note: this was originally released as an hour-long ABC-TV program; this version is either a condensation or simply ½ of the original program.) 0:08 animations of the history of humanity and a map of the stars, 0:23 animation of the earth floating around the sun, 0:45 animation zooming out from the sun to the milky way and other galaxies, 1:14 slow zoom up to the sun, 1:48 a radio telescope followed by footage from those telescopes, 2:09 Arecibo Radio telescope, 2:42 an operator working the telescope, 2:58 Director of the telescope Dr. Frank Drake walking up some stairs and talking to the camera interjected with footage of the stars they looked at, 4:38 an animation of a starry sky, 4:59 a man using a microscope, 5:22 animations of Mars and Venus, 5:29 animation of the Mariner satellite approaching Mars, 5:48 Director of the Mariner program Dr. William H Pickering speaking to the camera, 6:13 different angles of an animation of Mars, 6:57 Dr. Richard S. Young speaking to the camera interjected with footage of the diversity of life on earth, 8:05 Dr. Pickering speaks to the camera, 8:20 the Palomar optical telescope in California at work, 8:41 images of Quasars, 8:52 a refractor telescope at the US Naval Observatory and some of its findings, 9:42 Carl Sagan speaking to the camera, 11:05 close up footage of a ranger landing on the moon, 11:29 pictures from the surface of the moon, 12:28 animated footage of Mars including the path of the Mariner spacecraft, 12:55 pictures of the Martian surface taken by the Mariner spacecraft, 13:52 Dr. Richard Young speaking to the camera interjected with animated footage of Mars, 15:23 animation of the changes in Martian pole caps throughout the season, 16:25 a chemist at the NASA Ames research center talking to the camera and drawing on a board, 17:11 animation of a timeline tracking the history of life on earth and the formation of the solar system, 18:27 animation showing the chemical composition of the universe and how this leads to the construction of the earth’s atmosphere and eventually life, 19:45 the birth of early organic molecules and how it evolves into more complicated life, 21:11 Walter Sullivan interviewing Nobel Prize winner Dr. Harold Yuri, 22:43 animation of the takeoff of the Voyager spacecraft and its landing of probes on Mars, 23:39 model of an early ABL Mars lander, 24:17 Engineer William Hostetler speaking to the camera, 24:49 close up footage of the ABL Mars lander with the engineer explaining the features and how it works including different probes for samples and means for conducting chemical experiments, 27:45 US Capitol Building, 28:00 Walter Sullivan speaking to the camera, 28:56 “We are not alone”, 29:04 written and directed by Stephen Fleischman, edited by Frank George We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
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