363550
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The Perception Of Life

1964-01-01 en 30m
Documentary
An extraordinarily beautiful and simple science film about the history of biological ideas that shows how they expanded as technology improved. Filmed in museums and in the Cambridge University labs where Whitehead had been a student, THE PERCEPTION OF LIFE was filmed through microscopes used by scientists from the 17th to the 20th centuries, including the electron microscope in the MRC unit where Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA.

Director

Peter Whitehead

Still Photographer

Peter Whitehead

Director

June Goodfield

Editor

Peter Whitehead

Writer

June Goodfield

Director of Photography

Fotis Mestheneos

Status

Released

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • Nuffield Foundation Unit for the History of Ideas