Before Launching into Space

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 39 min
  • Premiere: 1960. January 1.

This popular science documentary offers insights into a physiology laboratory conducting intensive investigations into the possibility of humans living in a space. Gravity experiments demonstrate how the human body might react in various conditions or using a centrifuge to test the effects of acceleration force on human tissue. In addition to presenting investigations into the psychology of loneliness, the film also shows how weightlessness is simulated aboard an airplane in free fall.

Discover

Bohumil Švarc

Commentary (voice)

Art

Jaroslav Čermák

Production Design

Jaroslav Čermák

Set Decoration

Camera

Vladimír Lorenc

Director of Photography

Crew

Radúz Činčera

Dramaturgy

Directing

Editing

Production

Josef Soukup

Production Manager

Sound

Miloslav Kuba

Original Music Composer

Writing

Kurt Goldberger

Screenplay