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Origins [videorecording] : fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution / a Pioneer Film & TV production for NOVA/WGBH and Channel 4 ; a Thomas Levenson Productions and Unicorn Projects, Inc. production for WGBH/Boston

Additional Titles
Fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution
Published
[United States] : WGBH Boston Video, 2004.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators
Tyson, Neil deGrasse, Harper, Alice, Cort, Julia, Klein, Larry, Levenson, Thomas, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), WGBH Video (Firm), and Channel Four (Great Britain)

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Language Note
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Described video for the visually impaired.
Contents
disc 1 -- Earth is born -- How life began -- disc 2 -- Where are the aliens? -- Back to the beginning.
Summary
Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth, - and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-edge scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed to capture the earliest observable "snapshot" of the Big Bang. Then watch as astronomers test an ingenious new way to detect distant planets that may harbor life, and discover that every atom in our bodies, and practically every bit of matter in the Earth, was made in the heart of stars. - Container.
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ISBN
1593751753
Related Titles
Nova (Television program)
Note
Originally broadcast on NOVA.
Special DVD features include: printable materials for educators; access to the Origins web site; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.
No public performance rights. Classroom instruction and home use permitted.
Closed-captionining apparently does not work, at least not on the UP-MEDIA copy.
Creation/Production Credits Note
Earth is born and How life began narration written and produced by Joseph McMaster ; produced and directed by Alice Harper ; Where are the aliens written, produced and directed by Julia Cort and Larry Klein ; Back to the beginning edited by Simon Holland ; written, produced, directed by Thomas Levenson.
Participant/Performer Note
Hosted and narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson ;
Technical Details
DVD, region 1, NTSC, letterboxed; Dolby Digital.
Complexity Note
Companion to book: Origins: fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution
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