Clip description
As the crucial hour approaches, members of the scientific expedition prepare their telescopic and scientific equipment to view the solar eclipse. They check the lenses, position mirrors, place slides, and test shutters. Intertitles explains the approach of the eclipse and is followed by a brief image of the moon’s silhouette passing across the sun.
Curator’s notes
This expedition to Western Australia confirmed the bending of light by gravity that was predicted in Einstein’s 1915 General Theory of Relativity.