Hello, welcome to Planet Classroom.

I am Orb. Join me as your virtual guide on a journey of global learning called Planet Classroom.

You will hear stories from artists, musicians, dancers, technologists,

game makers, filmmakers, innovators, and creators of all kinds from around the world.

It's time to engage or imagine nations, share our ideas and explore solutions for a brighter future

for all. Our planet is a classroom where learning together brings us together.

Today on Planet Classroom, we will talk about four films now screening on the Planet Classroom

Network YouTube channel. Three of these films, Earthrise, countermapping, and Marie's Dictionary

are from the renowned filmmaker Emanuel von Lee. The fourth film, 5,000 miles apart, is produced

by the Global Nomads Group. Earth is our shared home. Earthrise, co-directed by Emanuel von Lee,

tells the story of the first image captured of the Earth from space in 1968. The story is told

by the Apollo 8 astronauts. We did something that ended up showing the Earth and its people exactly

how we existed, where we are. That we were really here on Earth a spacecraft and we were all

astronauts. And we liked it a lot. That, like we were in spacecraft having to work closely

together to accomplish the mission down here, we seem to not be able to do that.

It was a very, very sobering look to see this beautiful little blue marble in the middle of

all that darkness. And you realize how lonely we really are on this wonderful Earth.

I'm Emanuel von Lee, an I'm one planet classer. We've grown up in a world where we take for granted

the idea of being able to see imagery that captures the whole Earth.

2021 and most of our lives we've been able to easily see what the Earth looks like. We've grown

up with imagery that captures the Earth as this beautiful blue planet against the blackness of space.

But in 1968 there were no such images. And the Apollo 8 mission, the first mission to leave Earth

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