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