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The real views in Field Trips are freely licensed photographs, 360° panoramas and museum 3D scans. Each one is listed here with its author, source and license. Images were resized for phones; any other change is noted.

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Film headers

The short silent films at the top of Field Trips, Habibi Dash, Fusion, Journal, Money and Tutor are freely licensed footage from Wikimedia Commons. Each was trimmed into a short loop, cropped, color-graded to the Midan palette and compressed. The adapted clips are shared under the same license as the originals.

Inside the Nile's Water Cycle

Inside a Desert Food Web

Inside Building the Great Pyramid

Inside the Rosetta Stone

Inside the Sakia Wheel

Inside a Scribe School

The Global Map Room

Inside a Date Palm

Inside Earth Orbit, Looking Back

Inside the Pyramid and the Stars

Inside a Lunar Eclipse

Inside the Solar Wind and the Aurora

Inside Star Roads for Navigation

  • 360° photoESO - Milky WayESO/S. Brunier · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia CommonsResized from 6000x3000 to 4096x2048 (WebP) with a 2048x1024 JPEG fallback.
  • PhotoCircumpolar star trailsHeyzeuss · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia CommonsBrightened (gamma and contrast) for small screens; Resized from 4928x3264 to 2048x1356 (WebP) with a 1024x678 JPEG fallback.
  • PhotoMilky Way Shek O Hong KongCarlo Yuen · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikimedia CommonsResized from 2048x1365 to 2048x1365 (WebP) with a 1024x682 JPEG fallback.
  • 360° photoNight Panorama in Wadi RumFaraheed · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia CommonsResized from 8000x4000 to 4096x2048 (WebP) with a 2048x1024 JPEG fallback.

Inside a Bronx Block Party

Inside a Motown-Era Session

Inside a Hollywood Movie Set

Inside a Saturday-Morning Studio

Inside a 1980s Arcade

Inside a Comic-Book Studio

  • PhotoNew Fun #1 (1935), coverLyman Anderson (pencils and inks); script by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson · Public domain · via Wikimedia CommonsResized from 1110x1600 to 1110x1600 (WebP) with a 710x1024 JPEG fallback.

Inside a Broadway Backstage

Inside a Championship Halftime

Inside a 1950s Drive-In

Inside an Election-Night Newsroom

Inside the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Inside the Wrights' First Flight

Inside Ellis Island on Arrival Day

Inside the March on Washington

Inside the Transcontinental Railroad

Inside Building the Statue of Liberty

Inside a Pizza Shop

Inside a Grocery Sale

Inside a Restaurant Bill

  • PhotoRestaurant billSakurakat · CC0 · via Wikimedia CommonsResized from 3072x4080 to 1542x2048 (WebP) with a 771x1024 JPEG fallback.

Inside Petra's Rose-Red City

Inside Wadi Rum's Red Desert

Inside Socotra's Island of Strange Trees

Inside Chefchaouen and Fes

Inside Zanzibar's Stone Town

Inside Cappadocia's Fairy Chimneys

Inside Ha Long Bay

Inside Jaipur, the Pink City

Inside Iceland's Ice Caves and Northern Lights

Inside Santorini's Caldera

Inside Venice, the City on the Water

Inside Dubrovnik's Walls

Inside Neuschwanstein Castle

Inside the Isle of Skye

Inside Hallstatt and Its Salt Mountain

Inside the Lofoten Islands

Inside the Cliffs of Moher

Inside the Amalfi Coast

Inside the Plitvice Lakes

Inside the Salar de Uyuni

Inside Machu Picchu's Mountain Engineering

Inside the Grand Canyon

Inside Yellowstone's Hot Ground

Inside Old Havana

Inside Banff and the Rockies

Inside Rio de Janeiro

Inside Torres del Paine

Inside the Galápagos Islands

Inside Antelope Canyon

Inside Iguazu Falls

Inside the Monteverde Cloud Forest

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