THE SKY SPLITTER

THE SKY SPLITTER. Ashley Miller, J. Norling, dirs. USA(?): Hodkinson, 1923. Silent short. J. Norling, script.

See for a successful attempt to rocket "through the speed of light," resulting in entrance to "a time warp" where the scientist relives "his entire life in an accelerated manner" (Ed Naha, Science Fictionary). Note that A. Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity goes back only to 1905, and the General Theory wasn't popularly known until 1919; Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921, but not for his work on relativity.