“ MAPS FOR A CHANGING WORLD “ 1959 JET AGE MAP MAKING & GLOBES EDUCATIONAL FILM XD75604a

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website The film “Maps for a Changing World“ is a revised edition of a film called “The Airplane Changes the World Map“. It was made by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films in collaboration with George T. Renner, JR, Ph.D. Columbia University in 1959. It is to be an educational/argumentative film to demonstrate how airplanes changed world maps. George Renner was a researcher and professor of newly established geography department of Columbia University between 1927 to 1933. Rotating three-dimensional globe stimulation (00:26). A close up of North American map showing less distortion (1:00). Northern America from an even closer range with almost invisible distortion (1:08). Two dimensional maps of the world (1:14). Closer outlook of a topographic map (1:22) Homer’s world map limited to knowledge of the globe of the time (1:31) Flat earther’s map with Athens in the middle and Mediterranean Sea under it surrounded by the “Great River” (1:41). Globe and the vectors of sailing ships (1:55). Close up map of Southern Europe and Northern Africa (2:04). Physical globe made in 1492 (2:18). The routes taken by Christoph Columbus and Vasco de Gama drawn on the globe (2:31). Globe with the axis connecting the North Pole to the South Pole (3:04). A visual simulation of the Equator (3:11). A visual simulation of the Prime Meridian (3:28). Lines drawn parallel to the Equator give North-South distances in degrees (3:41). Lines drawn parallel to the Prime Meridian East-West distances in degrees (3:53). Visual simulation of Mercator’s projection experiment in 1538 (4:08). Globe wrapped by a cylindrical paper creating latitude and longitude lines (4:15). Mercator’s two-dimensional projection with distorted distances (4:29). World map with lines of latitude and longitude with arrows for direction (4:50). A man’s head and then shown on Mercator’s projection (5:05). Examples of distortion of distances in high latitudes in Mercator’s projection from New York to Rome and from Panama Canal to Tokyo (5:28). Equatorially bloated globe as another depiction of Earth which distorts shape and not size (6:17). A man’s head from all sides (6:23). Orange Peel map (6:38). Accurate orange peel map of the land area but not the ocean (6:44). The same map with whole oceans and broken continents (6:53). Map with prevailing wind for sailing navigators (7:11). Steamships in a shore (7:22). Airplane belonging to United Airlines flying in the sky (8:25). Great circle routes taken by airplanes mapped (8:33). Jetliner and United Airlines’ Boeing 707 airplane (9:19) 6000-mile radius from Tokyo, Central Europe, and Chicago drawn on the map (9:36). Illustration of X-15 being launched from an Air Force B-52 (10:32). Rocket (probably Jupiter C) launched into space (10:38) We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit