The Shared experience

Duration: 28

Year Published: 1977

Creator: M. Lawrence

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Examines the library in its broadest implications as a repository for the transmission of human experience. Dr. Lewis Thomas discusses the biological basis for culture. Noam Chomsky speculates on the origins of Language . Alexander Marshack explores the mind of ice age man and John Kenneth Galbraith talks about contemporary information. Also includes appearances by Ernest Siegel and William Irwin Thompson.