The Moody Science Institute seems to be a front for the Moody Bible Institute, some kind of religious organization bent on recruiting the eyeglasses and pocket protector crowd. Gradually God is introduced and mixed with the scientific matter, and the documentary becomes more and more moralizing and religious.Īt the end of the movie, spectators are invited to place the Tupperware ear-pieces back on their hooks, and to see an eight-minute production, which is strictly religious. I love the special effects of travelling near the speed of light. The documentary starts talking about time, einstein, and relativity.

I feel that it was to attract nerds and geeks. The 'science' was secondary to the Moody Institute. While watching the movie, one had to hold that tupperware-bowl contraption to his-ear, set the switch to either of French or English, and sit through a pseudo-scientific documentary with eye-catching and dramatic photography. A hole was cut in the plastic bowl's cover to allow the ear to enter. It consisted of a plastic tube, linked to a Tupperware bowl with its cover. Each seat had a peculiar 'headset' with a switch allowing the viewer to choose the language in which to listen to the movie. This pavillion was also in the 1964-1964 New York World's Fair as well.Īfter waiting in line for about 15 minutes outside the pavillion, one entered a 300 seat auditorium movie theatre. The venue for the 30 or so documentaries by the 'Moody Science Institute', was the Sermons from Science Pavillion. It was the ongoing, annual replay of MontrÃ©al's Expo 67 (which you will find in the Newsreel section of the archive). I first saw Mysteries of Time, when I was 11 years old, at Man and His World, in Montreal. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC. Moody Institute of Science films were marketed to churches and also to public schools where today even the mention of the word God sparks a conflagration of protests and court cases.

While revealing the complexity of nature, their films would end with Moon saying that this complexity was part of God's plan rather than evolution.

Moon partnered with the Moody Bible Institute to form the Moody Institute of Science a company that made basic science films with a religious hook at the end. His work with GIs during World War II showed him the impact that training films had on the troops. He would tour the country giving his Sermons of Science where the marvels of science provide the visible evidence of a Divine plan of creation. The films host Irwin Moon had an interest in science as a child and later incorporated that interest into his life as a pastor.

On the surface, this film may seem like an average science film about time and space, but like most of films from the Moody Institute of Science, there is an ulterior motive.

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