- Title: VM-1447
- Summary: THE THREAD OF LIFE: HISTORY OF GENETICS FROM GREGOR MENDEL RECORDS ON PEA PLANTS IN HIS MONASTERY GARDEN TO DISCOVERY OF DNA
- Description:00:01:04 - DOCTOR SPEAKS TO FACES ON FOUR TV SCREENS ASKING ABOUT HEREDITY: ELDERLY MAN, BOY (PRE-CELEBRITY DON GRADY OF "MY THREE SONS"), ELDERLY WOMAN & MARRIED COUPLE. 00:01:20 - RESEARCHER WALKS OVER TO LARGE TV SCREEN SHOWING FAMILY OF FIVE STANDING IN LIVING ROOM. BOY PASSES OUT STRIPS OF PAPER CONTAINING CHEMICAL PTC WHICH EACH MEMBER OF THE FAMILY TASTES. 00:01:56 - SMILING BABY IN BASSINET 00:02:01 - CU BABY DRINKS FROM BOTTLE WITH GUSTO. 00:02:06 - CU MOM'S FINGERS WIPES BABY'S MOUTH. 00:02:13 - CU DOCTOR'S HANDS CHECKS MEDICAL RECORDS IN FILE CABINET 00:02:28 - COUPLE ON TV SCREEN 00:02:38 - DOCTOR SHOWS WALL POSTER LIST OF OUR 46 CHROMOSOMES 00:02:43 - CU SHOWING 23RD PAIR OF CHROMOSOMES IN MALES IS A MISMATCH 00:02:48 - CU ANIMATED DRAWINGS OF CHROMOSOMES SHOWING MALE X-Y & FEMALES X-X. 00:03:18 - CU ANIMATED DRAWING SHOWS FERTILIZED EGG WITH X-X. ANIMATED GIRL JUMPING ROPE. 00:03:23 - EGG WITH X-Y. ANIMATED BOY RUNNING WITH FOOTBALL 00:03:29 - DRAWINGS SHOWING FATHER HAVING BOTH "X" AND "Y" WHICH DETERMINES WHAT SEX THE CHILD WILL BE. 00:05:22 - WOMAN WITH COLOR BLIND HUSBAND CHANGES HIS OFF-COLOR TIE. 00:05:27 - CU DRAWING SHOWING COLOR BLINDNESS AS SEX-LINK TRAIT 00:05:35 - BALDING MAN IN TV ASKS ABOUT BALDNESS 00:06:00 - YOUNG WOMAN USES HOSE TO WATER PLANTS IN GARDEN 00:06:10 - PEOPLE SWIMMING & DIVING AT PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL. 00:06:15 - BOY PLAYING WITH DOG. 00:06:20 - CU GIRL FACE ON TV 00:06:28 - MAN LAYING ON HOSPITAL GURNEY GETTING BLOOD TRANSFUSION. 00:06:33 - SHIRTLESS MUSCULAR MAN LIFTING WEIGHTS. 00:07:02 - CU PROFESSOR SPEAKS ABOUT MUTATIONS CAUSING CHANGES 00:07:07 - DRAWING OF CAMEL OF TODAY IN DESERT & PREHISTORIC CAMEL 00:07:44 - CU MUTATED MICE: FAT MOUSE, THIN MOUSE, TWO HAIRLESS MICE, MOUSE WITH SKIN LIKE RHINOCEROS. BIZARRE 00:07:50 - CU MOUSE RUNNING IN CIRCLES. 00:08:10 - CU VARIETY BEAUTIFULLY COLORED TROPICAL FISH 00:08:20 - YOUNG WOMAN WALKS OUT OF STORE WEARING FULL LENGTH MINK COAT. ADMIRES HERSELF IN STORE WINDOW REFLECTION 00:08:43 - PLANT BREATHERS AT SITE IN WHEAT FARM. 00:08:48 - FARM HANDS AT WORK IN WHEAT FIELD PLACING WHEAT THROUGH GRINDER 00:08:54 - CU FARMER RUNS FINGERS THROUGH DISEASED WHEAT ROT 00:08:59 - VARIOUS VIEWS FIELDS OF WHEAT CROP 00:09:12 - FARMER'S HAND PLACING PAPER BAG OVER GENETICALLY BRED CORN STALK IN FIELD. 00:09:17 - HUGE LOAD OF CORN IS REMOVED FROM TRUCK 00:09:22 - CORN PUT ONTO CONVEYOR TRAVELS UP TO TOP OF STORAGE BINS AND POURED IN. 00:09:27 - PAN TO HUGE STORAGE BIN FULL OF CORN. 00:09:32 - HUNDREDS OF WHITE HENS ON CHICKEN FARM 00:09:37 - ROWS OF CHICKEN EGGS ON CONVEYOR. 00:09:39 - TWO PIGS IN PEN. 00:09:40 - BEEF CATTLE ROAMING PASTURE. 00:09:42 - ROWS OF GRAPEFRUIT TREES IN ORCHARD. 00:09:44 - LUMBER TREES IN SWEDISH FOREST. 00:09:46 - RICE FARMERS IN JAPANESE FIELD. 00:09:48 - CU BOY BITES INTO SLICE OF WATERMELON. WATERMELON GROWING IN FIELD IN BKGD. 00:09:53 - CU SEEDLESS WATERMELON CUT OPEN. 00:10:17 - CU BOY ON TV ASKS ABOUT MUTATION 00:10:31 - PHOTO OF HERMAN J. MULLER WORKING IN LAB WITH OTHERS IN 1926. 00:10:36 - CU ZOOM IN IRRADIATED FRUIT FLIES IN JAR. 00:10:41 - MONTAGE CU MUTATED FRUIT FLIES: FLY WITH NO WINGS, FLY WITH EXTRA WINGS, FLY WITH CURLY WINGS, FLY WITH BLACK BODIES, WHITE-EYED FLY 00:11:25 - CU PAN FRUIT FLY WITH EGGS WHICH NEVER HATCHED 00:11:44 - CINEPHOTOMICROGRAPHY SHOWING DIVISION OF LIVING CELLS. CU NORMAL CELL DIVIDING AS SEEN UNDER MICROSCOPE. MICROSCOPIC CELLS DIVIDE. 00:11:49 - CU RADIATED CELLS UNDER MICROSCOPE SHOW BROKEN, MISSHAPEN CELLS 00:12:58 - TWO ALBINO CORN COBS. 00:13:03 - CU DISTORTED EAR OF CORN FROM STUNTED PLANT CAUSED BY RADIATION 00:13:21 - VARIOUS SCENES SCIENTISTS IN LAB DURING WWII WEARING PROTECTIVE CLOTHING. WORK ON PRODUCTION OF PENICILLIN 00:13:48 - NURSE ATTENDS TO MEN IN HOSPITAL WARD. 00:13:53 - DOCTOR DOING CAT SCAN ON CANCER PATIENT. 00:13:58 - CU CANCER CELLS UNDER MICROSCOPE MULTIPLYING WILDLY. 00:14:26 - SHIRTLESS MAN GETTING X-RAY TREATMENT OF HIS CANCER. 00:15:13 - SCHOOL OF SALMON FISH. 00:15:18 - FISHERMAN IN SWITZERLAND FORCES SALMON TO EXCRETE LONG FLOW OF SPERM INTO PAIL. 00:15:23 - SCIENTIST HERMAN REISHER FOUND UNKNOWN CHEMICALS IN RHINE RIVER SALMON'S SPERM 00:15:54 - DR. HARRIET ABRUZI TAYLOR WORKING IN LAB DOING EXPERIMENT WITH DNA. VARIOUS SCENES OF EXPERIMENT IN PROGRESS. 00:16:59 - CU DNA BEING EXTRACTED FROM TEST TUBE. 00:18:23 - CU MAGNIFIED DNA MOLECULE UNDER MICROSCOPE 00:18:57 - PHOTO AMERICAN JAMES WATSON (AMERICAN) & FRANCIS CRICK 00:19:12 - DR. BAXTER WITH HANGING MODEL OF DNA 00:19:34 - PAN UP SPINNING DOUBLE HELIX MODEL OF COLORED BALLS REPRESENTING VARIETY OF ATOMS. 00:19:55 - TALKING HEADS ASKING QUESTIONS. 00:21:00 - ANIMATED DRAWING OF DNA MOLECULE. 00:22:00 - TALKING HEADS ASKING QUESTIONS 00:23:05 - YOUNG COUPLE RIDING IN OPEN CONVERTIBLE 00:23:10 - CU LEFT-HANDED MAN HAMMERS WITH SMALL JEWELER'S HAMMER 00:23:15 - WOMAN FACING CAMERA COMBS HER WHITE STREAKED HAIR 00:23:19 - MONTAGE STREET SCENES IN FAR EASTERN COUNTRY. PEOPLE IN OPEN MARKETPLACE. 00:23:24 - CU VARIETY OF PEOPLE INCLUDE INDIAN WOMAN WITH COLORFUL FEATHERED HEADWEAR, MAN IN COWBOY HAT, LITTLE NATIVE BOY WITH SUN HAT CARRYING BUNDLE OF HAY ON BACK, ELDERLY BLACK MAN, ELDERLY ASIAN MAN, COWGIRL WITH HORSE, ESKIMO MAN, DARK-SKINNED INDIAN WOMAN, SMILING CHINESE MAN 00:23:37 - STUDENTS AT DESKS DOING RESEARCH ON DNA WATCH MALE SCIENCE TEACHER WRITE FORMULAS ON BLACKBOARD. OTHERS WORKING IN LAB. 00:23:45 - CU SCIENTISTS PEERING THROUGH MICROSCOPES. 00:23:50 - BABY INFANT CRAWLING ON CUSHION AT SWIMMING POOL. 00:23:55 - KIDS FROLICKING IN PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL 00:24:00 - MAN SEATED IN EASY CHAIR, PUFFS ON CIGAR AS HE READS NEWSPAPERS. 00:24:10 - ELDERLY COUPLE TAKING A WALK. 00:24:20 - STARS NIGHT SKY 00:24:32 - MONTAGE ANIMALS: CU FLOCKS OF BIRDS IN FLIGHT FILL SKY. 00:24:37 - SWAN IN POND, BABY DUCKS SWIMMING IN POND. 00:24:42 - LITTLE GIRL PLAYING WITH TURTLE, BOY PETTING GOAT. 00:24:47 - DEER IN WILD, BEAVER CHEWING 00:24:52 - LONG-NECKED GIRAFFE PEERS INTO CAMERA 00:24:57 - PONY ALONGSIDE HORSE 00:25:00 - COW LICKS ITS CALF, EWE WITH LAMB. 00:25:03 - MOTHER DOG LAYS DOWN AS BUNCH OF PUPPIES SUCKLE. 00:25:23 - CU SCIENTIST'S HAND STIRS CHEMICAL IN TEST TUBE. 00:25:29 - STUDENTS WALKING CAMPUS OF COLLEGE. 00:25:34 - ZOOM IN ON OLD BOOKS LAYING EVERY WHICH WAY ON LIBRARY SHELF. 00:25:37 - CU ZOOM IN SCIENTIST HEATING TEST TUBE OVER FLAME.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-1447