From the October 22, 1932, issue
By Science News
SUN, MOON AND STARS IN THE MOVIES
Joshua, it is recorded, commanded the sun and the moon to stand still and they obeyed him.
In this modern Yankee land and age of hustle, we are much less interested in making things stand still than in making them move faster. Present-day Joshuas would be more likely to command the sun and the moon “to get a move on!”
Indeed, this has already been accomplished in effect, by a remarkable combination of telescope and movie camera, which obtains films of sun and moon, planets and stars, going through days or months of slow celestial changes condensed into minutes of projection time. A month on the moon boils down into a quarter of an hour on the screen.