37 years ago, Carl Sagan imagined an ‘Encyclopaedia Galactica’, a “vast repository of the knowledge of many worlds”. Parallax is a five-part series of video essays that wonders what this Encyclopaedia Galactica might look like. What do we learn when we step outside of our myopic, planetary view and see life from a different perspective? Find out, in this survey of an alien world. Projects like this are only possible thanks to your support on Patreon: patreon.com/AdamWestbrook Watch Episode 2: vimeo.com/delvetv/parallax-2 Watch Episode 3: vimeo.com/delvetv/parallax-3 Watch Episode 4: vimeo.com/delvetv/parallax-4 Watch Episode 5: vimeo.com/delvetv/parallax-5 PARALLAX.1 WRITTEN AND DIRECTED by Adam Westbrook adamwestbrook.co.uk WITH THE VOICE OF Jennifer Munby www.jennifermunby.com/ ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED by Dale Nichols dalenicholsmusic.com MANDARIN TRANSLATIONS by Eric Lin www.cafewatercolor.com/ SPANISH TRANSLATIONS by Ana Ribera All images collected from the electromagnetic transmissions received from 806.4616.0110 (see below for attribution) MOTION GRAPHICS by Adam Westbrook ALIEN TYPEFACE by Neale Davidson SOUND EFFECT by AudioJungle & Freesound WITH THANKS TO: Caroline Vanier Guy Gunaratne Dr Mark Jackson PATREON BETATESTERS Matteo Rovatti Yaman Niki Shmikis The Lost Journalist Joel D Canfield Linda Spencer Michael Pilosov Ana Ribera Marc Tremsal BECOME A BETATESTER FOR FUTURE EPISODES: patreon.com/AdamWestbrook FOOTAGE ATTRIBUTION The following clips are used under the Creative Commons Licence for Attribution or released in the Public Domain. “Warning from Space” directed by Koji Shima (1956) archive.org/details/Warning_From_Space_ACM “The Phantom Planet” directed by William Marshall (1961) archive.org/details/Phantom_Planet “Attack of the Monsters” directed by Noriaki Yuasa (1969) archive.org/details/Attack_of_the_Monsters “How the Eye Functions” by Karl Kurt (1941) archive.org/details/HowtheEy1941 “Atom Bomb Effects by U.S. Army (1941) archive.org/details/0707AtomBombEffects “World At War” by US Office of War Information (1942) archive.org/details/WorldatW1942_2 “Hindenberg explodes” (1937) archive.org/details/hindenberg_explodes “Who Said That?” By NBC (1953) archive.org/details/whosaidthat30March1953 “Breakfast Pals” by Cartoon Films Ltd (1939) archive.org/details/Breakfas1939 “Judge Roy Bean” (1956) archive.org/details/JudgeRoyBean-DeliverTheBody “World Trade Centre” by Western Electric archive.org/details/world_trade_center “Private Life of a cat” by Hammid and Deren (1947) archive.org/details/PrivateL1947 “Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin Raise the American Flag on the Moon” by NASA (1969) archive.org/details/PartiallyRestoredVideoNeilArmstrongAndBuzzAldrinRaiseTheAmerican “Safety in the After Disaster Environment” by U.S. Fire Academy (2006) archive.org/details/gov.dhs.fema.usfa.e202 “Japanese commercials from 1985” www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7HJ7zBHLyA “Drone over water” by Nicolas de Camaret via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/ndecam/16714496754 “Gulls” by Forest and Kim Starr via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/forest-and-kim/17084615505 “Drone over town” by Ben Sutherland via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/bensutherland/23240727365 “Golden Girl” by Tanner Robinson via Vimeo vimeo.com/168723156 “Life Underwater” by Tom via Vimeo vimeo.com/78185313 “Sierra Leone Freetown” by Drone Addicts via Vimeo vimeo.com/78185313 “Skyline” by Soo Dak via Vimeo vimeo.com/159164064 “Dolpins” by David Wilson via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/davidwilson1949/15993763512 “Timelapse Fog” by Bureau of Land Management via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/mypubliclands/23825649569 “Sunset and LaGuardia” by jqpubliq via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/jqpubliq/9383573693 “Asimo saying hello” by MsSaraKelly via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/mssarakelly “Pale tussock on the move” by Kitty Terwolbeck via Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/kittysfotos/30557506705

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