Exploring the Spectrum (Part 2) (sound)

Description: Description: Content advisory: Depiction of carceral labor, with incarcerated people gardening. Depiction and description of animal experimentation and cruelty to animals. Although the depictions are presented in still image format and heavily contextualized in the narration their appearance in a film whose title suggests a subject matter of physics and optics has the potential to shock. Narrated research film that is substantially dependent on still images for its visual content. The narration, while rooted in science, also ranges to realms of inquiry that have been debunked as pseudoscience. Narration explains many related theories and experiments relating to the effects of light, and light deprivation, on plants, animals, and people. With discussion of the impact of psychedelic culture affecting light curation in an aquarium, and with time-lapse photography of young children with behavior problems purportedly responding in a beneficial way to modifications in the types of fluorescent light they are being exposed to. Also with discussions of epidemiological effects of light, and the purported danger of television waves. See item 205083 for Part 1. An uncritical description published in the 16mm film guide produced by International Film Bureau Inc., states: "Exploring the Spectrum records John Ott's observations of the correlations between plant and animal health and exposure to both the visible and the non-visible rays of the total electromagnetic spectrum. His observations have contributed to the development of a new science, photobiology. As a time-lapse photographer, Ott noticed that different types of fluorescent light (which distort natural light) had startling effects on plant growth. ." Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1970s, Science, Schools, Animals, Plants Tags: physics; electromagnetic spectrum; EMS; laboratory science; parascience; color theory; daylight; ultraviolet light; quartz; wavelengths of light; experimentation on mice; lab mice; pink fluorescent light; light starvation; necrosis; sick animals; necropsy; autopsy; research slides; mink ranch exteriors; mink behavior discussion in narration; still photography; still photos; animal fertility; carceral environment; carceral culture; Illinois State Penitentiary sign; prison walls; prison gardens; horticultural therapy; rehabilitative agriculture; black light; restaurants; Well of the Sea restaurant; health effects of light on people; health effects of light on animals; behavioral effects of light; Seaquarium sign; fluorescent light; psychedelic culture; State of Florida Marine Research Laboratory sign; shrimp farming; St. John Brebeuf School sign; cancer research; leukemia in children; leukemia in public schools; cancer cluster; epidemiology; epidemiological research; botany; diurnal flowers; nocturnal flowers; circadian rhythm; cactus; cacti; hoya plant; sensitive plant; shock transmission; shock response in plants; ether toxicity; background radiation; mine shaft; bringing plants down into a mine to study their responses to light starvation; tired child condition; danger of television; experimentation on plants with television; growth of roots in plants; time-lapse photography; brain tissue studies; sign Center for Adjustive Education; danger of X-Rays from television; paranoia; fear of EMS; children exit school bus; Barbra Streisand mentioned in narration; bean plants; growth studies; time-lapse photography of first grade school children; Gen-X; self harm tendencies in children; learning disabilities tied to fluorescent light conditions; biological effects of light; biological effects of radiation; pseudoscience Film Sponsor: Creator: John Ott Pictures, Henry Ott Films Credits: Produced by John Ott Pictures, Inc., and Henry Ott Films for Environmental Health and Light Research Institute, Sarasota, Florida Based on the research of John Ott Distributor: International Film Bureau Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: International Film Bureau, Inc. Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1975 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; Niles, Illinois; Crest Hill, Illinois Genre/Form: educational Language: eng Rights: Notice on film (Part 1) states: "Environmental Health and Light Research Institute Sarasota, Florida/A non profit organization to study the effects of light on plant, animal and human life. copyright MCMLXXV" Film Format: 16mm film Element: release print Color: color Color Process: Eastman Sound or Silent: sound Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area Edge Code: circle Frame Rate: 24 fps Length (feet): 898

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