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Universe

1960 black-and-white short documentary
Movie short_film Q7894196
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Summary

Universe is a short film[1]. Universe ranks in the top 5% of short film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (254 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Roman Kroitor[3], Colin Low[4]
  • Screenwriter: Roman Kroitor[5]
  • Composer: Eldon Rathburn[6]
  • Genre: documentary film[7]
  • Cast member: Donald Alexander MacRae[8]
  • Producer: Tom Daly[9]
  • Production company: National Film Board of Canada[10]
  • Director of photography: Wolf Koenig[11]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[12]
  • Color: black-and-white[13]
  • Country of origin: Canada[14]
  • Publication date: January 1, 1960[15]
  • Distributed by: National Film Board of Canada[16]
  • Film editor: Tom Daly[17]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)[18]
  • Title: Universe[19]
  • Duration: 29 minutes[20]
  • Narrator: Gilles Pelletier[21], Stanley Jackson[22]
  • P14449: 198275[23]

Why It Matters

Universe is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Canada

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . CineTV. Retrieved . nfb.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . CineTV. Retrieved . nfb.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . CineTV. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . CineTV. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . CineTV. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . CineTV. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . CineTV. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . CineTV. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . CineTV. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'fa', 'fr', 'sh']
    Ampas collections film id → W063200
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    P14449 → 198275
    Producer → Tom Daly
    Publication date → +1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/38315|batch #38315]]: MovieLens IDs (part 2)"
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