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Algae

Depicts the five major groups of algae, showing growth, movement, reproduction, and nutritional patterns. Describes the tremendous size range of algae from the giant kelp to the minute forms found in a drop of pond water. Discusses the evolutionary development and the economic and ecological importance of the algae.

Credits

Direction, Script, Photography, Editing
Clarence M. Flaten, George J. Vuke
Sound
Don Scales
Producer
Malcolm Fleming.
Complete catalog record
Presents the five major groups of algae and describes their great diversity of size, form, habitat, and means of reproduction, and their ecological and economic importance. Shows varieties of algae representing green, bule-green, red, brown, and diatom groups. Pictures by time-lapse photography actual examples of fission, spore release, fragmentation, and daughter-colony formation. Shows sexual reproduction by fission and by penetration. Points to algae as the untimate source of food for all aquatic animals, as a source of stabilizers for many of our foods, and as a promising food source for space flights.


Educational authors:

Richard C. Starr
Harper Follansbee
Paul Klinge



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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description
  2. Representative University Produced Films 1964-1967 (Journal of the University Film Producers Association, Vol.19 No.3/4, 1967) — title, year, creator, length, color, description, credits
  3. Internet Archive · record ↗ — title, year, creator, format, genre, description, video
  4. 16mm Filmography editors — catalog record, video

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