Frank Capra's Our Mr. Sun, Bell System Science Series

An examination of the Sun's profound influence on Earth and the possibility of harnessing sunlight for conversion to electrical power.

Frank Capra began the Bell series with an overarching theme: Science is another facet of man's quest for God.
He wrote the screenplay based on the 1949 Donald Menzel book, Our Sun.

The film starred Eddie Albert as the fiction writer and Lionel Barrymore as Father Time. This was Barrymore's final screen role. It introduced Frank C. Baxter as Dr. Research. Baxter would go on to play this role in the next seven films in the Bell series. Marvin Miller voiced The Sun. Sterling Holloway is uncredited voicing Chloro Phyll.

The film was first aired on November 19, 1956.