Frames of Reference
A classic of Physics films, "Frames of Reference" won the Edison Award for best science education film of 1962. Today, you can still count on this film as the reference for any frames of reference that you are likely to encounter.
In 1986 , "Frames of Reference" was already called the
Anthony P. French, Physics Today, September 1986Casablanca of physics!
An early review from 1962:
The picture is an entertaining, informative lecture, but what we are suggesting is that it is also something more. What was done in the film studio could not have been done on the lecture platform. The camera is a part of the demonstration, being fixed now to one frame of reference and now to another, being now close to the action and now distant. But tricks are not performed simply to display the producer's ingenuity. It is typical that the picture is in black and white, since nothing more could be said by using color. "Frames of Reference" shows that the explanation of science on film can approach the making of a work of art.-J.T.
Joseph Turner, Science, 4 May 1962, Volume 136, Number 3514
Jeff Rudd, Simon Fraser University, Department of Physics 1999This PSSC film made in 1960 is one of the finest physics films ever made. All students should see it at some point in their studies.
gingersnap8 Nov 2010, YouTubeWe watched this in Physics last week. My teacher says he hasn't found another video that explains as well as this does.
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