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Soyuzmultfilm
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(writers:
A. Ankor, Vasiliy Livanov)
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In the sky,
(director: Vladimir Tarasov)
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Like an intimate call...
(art-director: N. Koshkin)
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Twinkle the stars' golden eyelashes...
(composer: Boris Shnaper)
(cosmonaut-consultant: A. Leonov)
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Mirror
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Mirror to
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Mirror to the
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Mirror to the Past
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Oh, look what a bright star!
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Hm, it's very close...
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Do not be afraid. That bright star
only seems to be near,
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but in fact its light took thousands
of years to reach us,
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so you and I see only the
past image of this star.
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The light of all the stars that you see
are just images of the distant past.
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Is it really possible to see the past?
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People have always dreamed of it.
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For example, through the imagination
of writer Mark Twain,
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the 19th century met up
with the 10th....
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I recognize that! It's "A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur's Court"!
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Right!
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Yet, Mark Twain was not interested in
how the Yankee got to the past.
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But the hero of the writer H.G. Wells...
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was already constructing
a time machine. Remember?
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Hmm, pretty cool!
But it's all just fiction.
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Of course it's fiction.
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Science-fiction writers of all eras have
sent people to the past or the future.
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But once, the residents of
a small town in Central Europe
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witnessed a fantastic event.
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High in the sky, among swirling clouds
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there appeared an amazing image
of some sort of big battle.
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For a long time, the church treated the
whole affair as a divine sign -
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a miracle.
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But it wasn't a miracle. It was a rare
atmospheric phenomenon, a kind of mirage.
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Much later, researchers who studied
the surviving historical documents
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came to the conclusion that it had
been the famous Battle of Waterloo.
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It happened like this:
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The currents of cold and warm air
had stratified
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and formed in the atmosphere
a giant tunnel of light
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with a huge air-mirror
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through which the battle was seen by the
residents of a town far away from it.
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Yet light waves carried the image of
the battle even further - into space.
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So everything gets carried into space
with light? Everything in the world?
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That's right.
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- You and I, too?
- You and I, too!
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Our images are always flying
through the universe.
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But if an image has flown off into space,
then I guess it can't be seen again?
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Why not?
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To do this, one would have to put
in the light's path...
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Ah! A mirror!
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Right!
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At the point being approached by the
image, we'd have to place a mirror
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and it will reflect the image
back to us.
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The universe itself will not
make us such a mirror.
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But people have managed
to build a space telescope
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with which one can,
even down to the small details,
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see the events taking place
on planets around distant stars.
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Right now our ship is approaching
to dock onto this giant telescope,
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and you and I will see these distant worlds.
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I'll show you a planet
very similar to our ancient Earth.
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Why does it have these colors?
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The composition of its atmosphere is
completely different,
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resulting in a different light spectrum.
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That which we have just seen
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happened on this planet
hundreds of thousands of years ago.
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Today it may have the same advanced
civilization as we have on Earth.
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How I would like to see
the distant past of our beautiful Earth...
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For that, you'd need to go far,
far away in the universe,
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and build a mirror that could reflect
back to us the images of distant times
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that fly through interstellar
space at the speed of light.
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I'll grow up and build that mirror!
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Then we will see our past, right?
- Right!
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animators: Vladimir Zarubin, Yuriy Kuzyurin,
Aleksandr Mazayev, Tatyana Fadeyeva,
Aleksandr Bukin, Valeriy Ugarov,
A. Davydov, Nikolay Kukolev
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In the sky,
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Like an intimate call...
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Twinkle the stars' golden eyelashes...
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camera: Kabul Rasulov
sound engineer: Vladimir Kutuzov
assistant director: T. Mititello
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art assist.: Yelena Bogolyubova, Olga Bogolyubova
montage: M. Miheyeva, script editor A. Snesarev
voices: M. Vinogradova, L. Lyubetskiy, prod. F. Ivanov
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The End
Subs by Chapaev & Eus, ed. Niffiwan (2022)