A Film About the Brain (no title)

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Creator: Audio-Visual Center - Indiana University

Complete Record: Brief shot of a flatworm. Shot of an animal dissection where a metal probe pokes at a brain with the label “cerebellum”. Shots of various brains including “mammal”. First brain shown again with the probe pointing to the optic lobe. Optic lobe shown on another brain. Olfactory lobe shown. Shot of various dissected animal heads, brains exposed. Cerebral hemispheres pointed to by probe for each brain. Cut to drawn diagram of a brain cell, “dendrites” labeled, as are “cell body”, “axon”, “myelin”, “terminal fibers” and “synapse”. Schematic diagram of an arm demonstrating nerve impulses, “reflex arc”. Animation showing “afferent neuron”, “interconnecting neuron” and “efferent neuron”. Diagram of a human brain. Animation continues, following the nerve impulses through the “autonomic ganglia”,