Video Descriptive Text for Microelectronics

Narration:

Transcript:

0:00 Retro footage over black with text reading “Goddard Space Flight Center presents Spaceback”

0:01 Archival footage from the 1960s showing three engineers fitting a long baseball bat sized rod with a large basketball sized sphere on one end into a spacecraft

0:06 Archival footage from the same 1960s lab of an engineer making adjustments on a component with a screwdriver

0:07 Close up of a darkly colored circuit board with lots of parallel lines and grooves

0:09 Slow zoom in of a microprocessor, a tiny dime-sized circular structure with an even smaller silicon chip inside. An engineer holds this between his fingers against a blue and white checkered background

0:11 Text overlay appears reading “To reduce the need for physical storage space of magnetic tapes, engineers designed microelectronics to process data on orbit as the satellite gathered it.”

0:16 Archival footage of an engineer in a lab looking through a microscope as the camera pushes in. The footage shows text at the bottom reading “John Lyons, Micro-electronics Branch.”

0:21 Archival footage of a thin clear cylinder with three tiny nuggets of metal are slowly inserted by hand into a circular opening of a machine for heating the material

0:22 Close up of the same footage showing the material now in small planes inside an orange glowing part of the machine

0:24 Archival footage of a close up of a hand using metal forceps to pick tiny black flecks of material over a white circular dish in a lab

0:26 Archival footage of a close up of a small thin needle injecting material into a very tiny rectangular chip in the center of a circular piece of metal

0:29 Archival footage zooming into the same machine injecting material into a chip

0:31 Very close up footage of a tiny silicon chip sitting in the center of a man’s index finger. The camera continues to zoom in farther

0:34 A graphical transition mimicking a VCR fast forwarding

0:35 Footage of rows of very small gold rectangular openings, with some opening and closing

0:37 Graphic overlay reads “Voice of Murzy Jhabvala, Chief Engineer, NASA Goddard’s Instrument Technology & Systems Division.”

0:41 An animated version of the microshutters in gray instead of gold. The shutters all open to reveal a deep field of stars and galaxies behind it, then all but two shutters close, leaving the images of galaxies in those openings.

0:46 Very close up footage of the microshutters with a graphical overlay showing the dimensions with text reading 100 in height and 200 in width

0:52 Footage of a bunny suited engineer in a cleanroom behind a silver octagonal metal frame that has a window in the middle. The window is where the arrays of microshutters are located.

0:54 Transition to an animated view of the multitude of shutters as the camera zooms out to reveal the small square with a green colored disc.