Hemo The Magnificant (2 Parts)

Genre: Educational

Creator: N. W. Ayer Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description:

SPONSOR: American Telephone & Telegraph Co. PRODUCTION CO.: Frank Capra Productions. DIRECTORS: FrankCapra, William T. Hurtz. PRODUCERS: Frank Capra, Shamus Culhane. WRITER: Frank Capra. ANIMATION: ShamusCulhane Productions. CA From the series Frank Baxter, Richard Carlson, June Foray, Marvin Miller, Sterling Holloway.RESOURCES: Copyright 26Feb57 LP9755; “Science Dramatizes Your Circulatory System,” CT, Mar. 16, 1957,C3; “Bell Shows Hemo the Magnificent,” Bus Scrn 18, no. 2 (1957): 12; Jack Gould, “TV: The Story of Blood,”NYT, Mar. 21, 1957, 63; Jackie Southerland, “TV Science Film Hard to Follow,” CT, Mar. 21, 1957, D7; JamesGilbert, Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1997), 199–223. HOLDINGS: AAFF, AFANA, LC, LC/Prelinger, UCLA.Popular science film sponsored by the telephone company. Integrating animation and microphotography, the documentary gives a tour of the body’s circulatory system under the guidance of a scientist and a fiction writer. Jack Gould wrote, “Learning and laughter are wonderful companions…. Mr. Capra and the scientists who aided him in the film are to be thanked for making a difficult subject understandable to a layman.” The film contains no direct advertising.NOTE: The second offering in the acclaimed Bell System Science series, Hemo the Magnificent was originally broadcast to an estimated 13 million homes. The Bell System distributed some five hundred 16mm prints to schools and community groups. For more about the Bell System Science series, see “Industry Takes a Hand,” Bus Scrn 18, no. 7 (1957): 38–39.

Complete Record: SPONSOR: American Telephone & Telegraph Co. PRODUCTION CO.: Frank Capra Productions. DIRECTORS: FrankCapra, William T. Hurtz. PRODUCERS: Frank Capra, Shamus Culhane. WRITER: Frank Capra. ANIMATION: ShamusCulhane Productions. CA From the series Frank Baxter, Richard Carlson, June Foray, Marvin Miller, Sterling Holloway.RESOURCES: Copyright 26Feb57 LP9755; “Science Dramatizes Your Circulatory System,” CT, Mar. 16, 1957,C3; “Bell Shows Hemo the Magnificent,” Bus Scrn 18, no. 2 (1957): 12; Jack Gould, “TV: The Story of Blood,”NYT, Mar. 21, 1957, 63; Jackie Southerland, “TV Science Film Hard to Follow,” CT, Mar. 21, 1957, D7; JamesGilbert, Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1997), 199–223. HOLDINGS: AAFF, AFANA, LC, LC/Prelinger, UCLA.Popular science film sponsored by the telephone company. Integrating animation and microphotography, the documentary gives a tour of the body’s circulatory system under the guidance of a scientist and a fiction writer. Jack Gould wrote, “Learning and laughter are wonderful companions…. Mr. Capra and the scientists who aided him in the film are to be thanked for making a difficult subject understandable to a layman.” The film contains no direct advertising.NOTE: The second offering in the acclaimed Bell System Science series, Hemo the Magnificent was originally broadcast to an estimated 13 million homes. The Bell System distributed some five hundred 16mm prints to schools and community groups. For more about the Bell System Science series, see “Industry Takes a Hand,” Bus Scrn 18, no. 7 (1957): 38–39.