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Universe is a black-and-white short documentary made in 1960 about the nightly work of an astronomer at the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario, a facility that is owned and operated by the University of Toronto, Canada. He prepares his equipment and then photographs by long exposure one star, using the technology of his era (to check that it works, he sets off a flare!). The show then presents special effects which show an exploding nebula.

Stanley Jackson did the narration for the English version; the French version was titled Notre univers with narration by Gilles Pelletier. The film's true highlight was its orchestral score by Eldon Rathburn.

After this work, Low worked with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey
, but as that was a color film the same special effects would not work. His work on this short may have influenced Kubrick to begin his project.

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