Frames of Reference: A trippy physics lecture from 1960

This clever and stylish 1960 film is the most fun you’ll ever have at a physics lecture. Directed by Richard Leacock. Watch 'Frames of Reference' on Aeon: https://aeon.co/videos/this-clever-and-stylish-1960-film-is-the-most-fun-youll-ever-have-at-a-physics-lecture Watch more free videos on Aeon: https://aeon.co/videos Subscribe to the Aeon Video newsletter: https://aeon.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=89c6e02ebaf75bbc918731474&id=7157ce880b Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aeonmag/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aeonmag Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aeon.co Directed by the pioneering UK documentarian Richard Leacock, Frames of Reference is a slick and surreal dive into physics fundamentals and, in particular, why everything is indeed relative. Produced for high-school physics classes, the 1960 film features the physics professors Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto explaining, through an intertwined series of lectures and clever demonstrations, how frames of reference shape perspective. Using rotating sets, camera tricks and a visual style that suggests the film noir of Alfred Hitchcock, this is perhaps the most peculiarly entertaining half-hour physics lecture you’ll ever have. #science #physics #film