Reply from space (1984)

Documentary №39106, 2 parts, duration: 0:17:20
Production: Centrnauchfilm (CNF)
Director:O. Nifontova
Screenwriters:I. Linkova
Camera operators:G. Dubrovin
Sound mixer:L. Shutova
Other authors:M. Horol

Annotation:

The film is devoted to the study of simplified similarity - "man - plant" and the problem of investigating the possibility of creating similarities of terrestrial biocenoses at orbital stations.

Reel №1 Reply from space

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Drawing a flower with watercolor paints on paper.

An image of a part of the universe.

View of a part of the Earth's surface from space.

A lonely tree on a snowy slope.

Plants in the laboratory.

A. Merkis, a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR, speaks about the tasks of biological science faced by a person after his entry into outer space, about the behavior of plants in space flight, about the wag of gravity on the process of plant evolution, about the spatial orientation of plants (synchronously).

A spaceship taking off.

Plants grown on the orbital station.

Conducting scientific experiments with plants grown in orbit at the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR.

Plants oriented in space and located according to the vector of centrifugal force.

A stationary block where another group of plants was grown.

Plants with "lost" shoots, sprouted in zero gravity.

Pine trees pointing to the sky (panorama).

The sprawling trunk of a pine tree grown in the open.

Studying plants under a microscope.

Scientist R. Laurinavicius talks about the cells - skatolites that affect the development of plants, their loss of spatial orientation in zero gravity (synchronously and off-screen), the layout of cells on the monitor.

A centrifuge rotates, simulating the conditions of weightlessness in which plants are grown.

Plants grown in zero gravity.

A plant that has lost its spatial orientation.

Meltwater in a stream, winter landscape.

Grass dusted with snow (panorama).

Laurinavicius talks about the course of the experiment with plant seeds sown on the orbital station, demonstrates its results (synchronously and off-screen).

Astronauts are conducting an experiment with growing plants on board the orbital station.

Cosmonaut S.E. Savitskaya on board the orbital station.

Annual sections on a sawn tree trunk.

The structure of a unicellular algae under a microscope.

Conducting an experiment with unicellular algae in the laboratory.

Conducting experiments with chlorella, operation of laboratory equipment.

Experiment on cooking food for astronauts from algae.

Panorama of a part of the laboratory for the study of chlorella, conducting another experiment.

A tree outside the laboratory window.

Personnel:

Merkis Aljfonsas Ionovich -- botanist and plant physiologist Savickaya Svetlana Evgenjevna -- pilot-cosmonaut

Calendar: 1984

Locations: Lithuania [128] Space [204]

Seasons: Winter [823] Spring [825]

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Seedlings of plants grown in the laboratory in solutions of mineral salts.

Beetroot grown by hydroponics in the laboratory.

A scientist in the laboratory puts a shield on a laboratory cabinet with plants.

The beginning of an experiment to conduct an experiment on biocenosis at the Institute of Biomedical Problems.

The participants of the experiment are placed in a special chamber simulating the atmosphere and a closed oxygen cycle.

Type of experimental laboratory and equipment.

An isolated participant in the experiment observes the development of plants.

Plants during the experiment.

Technical equipment to support the experiment.

Astronauts in zero gravity aboard the orbital station.

Shoots of plants extracted from the darkness and arranged horizontally.

Shoots of plants that reacted to the flash and reached for the light.

One of the participants of the experiment conducts a study of plants in artificial weightlessness.

The participants of the experiment discuss intermediate research data.

View of the laboratory of the Institute of Biomedical Problems.

Bare branches of trees.

Types of houses in the historical part of Vilnius in winter.

Flowers blooming in the laboratory, buds opening.

The sun shines through the bare branches of the trees.

Images of constellations on the starry sky map.

The face of a young artist.

A boy draws a flower with watercolor paints.

Children's faces.

Flowers and plants in children's drawings.

Calendar: 1984

Locations: Moscow [820] Vilnius [925]

Seasons: Winter [823]

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