Gravity (1939)

No title Gravity. Location of events unknown. M, S of a man sat at his kitchen table reading a paper and pouring tea. M, S as the tea spills on the cloth because he is not concentrating. A maid comes in carrying a tray with a boiled egg on it. M, S as she trips and spills it, M, S of broken egg on floor. Slow motion M, S of diver going into pool. M, S of chimney toppling. M, S of actor playing Isaac Newton looking at the fallen apple. Various diagrams of the moon and earth showing the pull of gravity. M, S as liquid is spun around but doesn t spill because of centrifugal force. The narrator explains the moon and earth work in a similar way. M, S of man falling in boxing match. M, S as smoke rises from a cigarette. A photograph of Piccadilly Circus explains the earth tide where the earth rises a foot under gravitational pull of other stars. Various shots of a diagram explaining an eclipse. The maid comes on again and says she doesn t quite understand but gravity seems to be something to do with