Customer Reviews

Voyage to the Outer Planets & Beyond [VHS]

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This video which combines footage from NASA with the music from
Holst's "The Planets" is a feast for both the eyes and ears.
Even my children were kept interested for the entire program.
It was also good to see Isaac Asimov. Most people don't know
what he looked like. He was both informative and funny.
A great school item.
I hope they put this on DVD, so I can really pump up the sound.

A FIVE STAR PROGRAM. And the new NASA extras are great for teaching my classes.
The program was first released on VHS,(I bought it then)and now the new DVD has additional footage that most people have never seen.
My science lessons are made easier when we discuss the planets.
I can show the children each section, planet by planet.
Also, the music fits, and the descriptions written out on the screen are perfect. What a great tool to teach with.

The idea of combining images of the planets with passages from Holst's "The Planets" was a good one, and the resulting video is rather interesting. Some of the footage is quite good (particularly the time-lapse images of Jupiter, and the representations of the rings of Saturn and the Martian surface. However, there are a couple of flaws which seriously mar the finished product. The animated footage of the surface of Venus is very amateurish, and there are some glaring typographical errors ("Matian" for "Martian", and "shrowded" for shrouded". This is an entertaining video, but certainly not essential.