NFB Collection
Universe
196028 min 53 secFilm: Animation, Experimental
Direction: Roman KroitorColin Low
Production: Tom Daly
Script: Roman KroitorStanley Jackson
A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film was among the sources used by Stanley Kubrick in his 2001: A Space Odyssey. Realistic animation takes you into far regions of space, beyond the reach of the strongest telescope, past Moon, Sun, and Milky Way into galaxies yet unfathomed.
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Subject categories
- Sciences > AnimationAstronomy and Space Sciences
- Science > Space
Credits
- director
- Roman Kroitor
- Colin Low
- producer
- Tom Daly
- editing
- Tom Daly
- script
- Roman Kroitor
- commentary
- Stanley Jackson
- narrator
- Douglas Rain
- camera
- Denis Gillson
- Wolf Koenig
- sound
- Joseph Champagne
- sound editing
- Kathleen Shannon
- music
- Eldon Rathburn
Awards
- Golden Sheaf Award - Best Film of the FestivalYorkton Film Festival
- First Prize - Silver Oak Leaf - Category: Scientific FilmsInternational Children's Film Festival
- Chris Certificate Award - Category: Information/Education International Film and Video Festival
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Science and MathematicsItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Technical Mention of the "Commission Supérieure Technique du Cinéma Français"International Film Festival
- Jury's Prize for the Exceptional Quality of the AnimationInternational Film Festival
- Best Animated FilmBAFTA / British Academy Film Awards
- Diploma - Category: Scientific FilmsInternational Annual Film Festival
- Top Award - Category: Documentary FilmsInternational Annual Film Festival
- Award of Merit - Category: Theatrical FilmsGenie Awards
- Film of the YearGenie Awards
- First Prize - Golden Delfan - Category: Scientific FilmsInternational Educational Film Festival
- Diploma of MeritInternational Film Festival
- Diploma of HonourInternational Festival of Scientific and Technical Films
- AwardScholastic Teachers Magazine Annual Film Awards
- Cup of the Minister of Tourism and EntertainmentInternational Film Festival
- Special CommendationInternational Film Festival
- Best Music Awarded to Eldon RathburnInternational Festival of Educational Films
- Grand PrizeInternational Festival of Educational Films
- Best Documentary FilmInternational Festival of Educational Films
- First Prize - Category: DocumentaryInternational Film Festival
- Award of MeritScientific Film Festival
- Diploma of MeritCork Film Festival
- Nominated one of the ten best films of the last ten yearsEducational Film Library Aassociation of America - Sightlines Magazine
- Award for Exceptional MeritInternational Festival of Short Films