A program entitled “Orphan Films of Outer Space,” is part of the World of Knowledge: International Film Festival of Popular Science and Educational Films, which runs December 1-6, at the Lenfilm Cinema Center in St. Petersburg, Russia. On Sunday, December 5, 2021, I will introduce the films (via Zoom) to the viewers in the New Holland Pavilion. After the terrestrial projection of a 16mm print and four digital videos, filmmaker Jeanne Liotta and I will participate in a Q&A. The line-up: • Passage de Vénus (Jules Janssen and Francisco Antônio de Almeida, 1874) 5″ • The Transit of Venus (David
[Read on. . . . ] Capturing Venus in Motion and Filming an Eclipse in the 19th Century