Algae

Duration: 0:16:00

Genres: Educational, Educational | Nature

Year Published: 1964

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Direction, Script, Photography, Editing: Clarence M. Flaten, George J. Vuke; Sound: Don Scales; Producer: Malcolm Fleming.

Description: 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.

Complete 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

Metadata Source:Representative University Produced Films 1964-1967 (Journal of the University Film Producers Association, Vol.19 No.3/4, 1967)