Animated Life: Pangeae

This short, animated film is part of the Animated Life series by The New York Times. It tells the tale of Alfred Wegener, a meteorologist famous for his travels across the North-Pole. While there he invented a theory that the Earth consists of plates that move horizontally. This idea is nowadays recognized as true, but in the early 20^th century was very controversial, not in the least because Wegener was not a geologist. Here the story is told with appealing animation made out of cut-outs.