Breathing.

Date:
1934
  • Film

About this work

Description

An educational film explaining the action of oxygen and its benefits to living things. There are a variety of pedagogical means of communicating this; a boy carries out some simple experiments; there are medical illustrations (one overlays an image of the skeleton over the boy) and there is footage of timelapse plants growing in laboratory jars.

Publication/Creation

1934.

Physical description

1 film reel (10 min.) : sound, black and white, 16 mm.

Notes

3 copies were originally donated to Wellcome (marked 17, 18, 19) but only one is complete with the full title credits at the beginning (copy 19) and has been retained.

Creator/production credits

Supervised by Professor Winifred Cullis of the Department of Physiology of London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women. Direction Donald Carter. Photography George Pocknall. Diagrams Anson Dyer.

Language note

In English.

Copyright note

Unknown.

Languages

Where to find it

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