bts@unc.UUCP (Bruce Smith) (06/23/84)
Okay, time for a harder question. What was the film being shown in the science class? I don't know what it was, but some friends and I thought it seemed familiar. ____________________________ Bruce Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill decvax!mcnc!unc!bts (USENET)
ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan) (06/24/84)
<Oh, you're the PLUMBER> > Okay, time for a harder question. What was the film being > shown in the science class? I don't know what it was, but > some friends and I thought it seemed familiar. > Bruce Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill > decvax!mcnc!unc!bts (USENET) The film was "Hemo the Magnificent" from Bell Labs old science series. This is my all time favorite classroom film. It is all about blood (obvious from the title) and anatomy. It had great animated sequences and a lively presentation. In it, Hemo becomes a real character and debates with the humans. There were other films in this series, which was characterized by by two recurring human characters (a reporter and Dr. Science or some such) and an animated 'magic screen'. I seem to recall one on physics and one on weather. I was really disapointed to not see HEMO listed in the credits for Gremlins. Does anyone know whether the series is still available? PS : Another great Bell "science" film (not in the same series) was "They said it couldn't be done" ,featuring the Fifth Dimension (remember them?) among others. I was in grade school in the late 60's . If you weren't, you missed some good films. (Of course even the bad ones got you out of class). -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvac!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted 6536 Brookside Circle Columbia, SC 29206 ("Sixty-sixty?" he suggested) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson) (06/25/84)
That was one of the great science films of all time, the Bell Labs (I think( film about the heart and the blood. It has this great cartoon hero, Haemo, who blusters about against the the good doctor (whose name escapes me) until the GD tells him that blood is most like sea water. I think that a large portion of my interest in science derives from these films. Science would have a better audience among the youth of this world (i.e., fewer of them would want to be lawyers or business-persons) if more of these films were made. -- _ Peter Benson | ITT Defense Communications Division (619)578-3080 | 10060 Carroll Canyon Road decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!benson | San Diego, CA 92131 ucbvax!sdcsvax!dcdwest!benson |