Looking around.

London : Wellcome Foundation Ltd, 1952.

2 film reels (10 min. each) : sound, color ; 16 mm.

00:10:00

Wellcome Trust.

Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

In English.

Produced by Wellcome Film Unit with the assistance of Mr. J.W. Lester of London Zoo. Taballet devised by Douglas Fisher.

Commentaries spoken by David Lloyd-Jones and Gerard Hoffnung.

Title taken from title credits.

gSegment 1 Sealed in Resin shows a fly specimen being set in amber. The process is shown of pouring resin into a glass mould, the scorpion laid in the mould while resin is poured over it. The resin is left to set overnight and then the glass strips are removed. The block is shaped and smoothed by grinding and polished with a buff. The process of mounting larger specimens in liquid inside a plastic box is shown. The plastic box is made and then the resin poured into it. We see resin-mounted specimens of a spider, the life cycle of the wood tick, a python skull, a Gaboon viper and a scorpion. Time start:00:00:00:00 Time end:00:03:58:00 Length:00:03:58:00

gSegment 2 This item shows the Heterocephalus Glaber (naked mole rat) species. This little creature lives underground in the savannah. Close shots show the large protruding teeth, the scattered hairs, the nostrils, lips, eyes, ears, and skin. Shots are seen of the creature burrowing. With amusing comments by Gerard Hoffnung. Time start:00:03:58:00 Time end:00:06:24:12 Length:00:02:26:12

gSegment 3 Taballet is an animated dance sequence of tablets using stop frame animation, set to jaunty music. Drugs are shown in powder form and being compressed into tablets of various shapes and colours. Amongst them is a close shot of a penicillin lozenge and various other types of pills - fast dispersing, effervescent, and sugar-coated. There are shots of tablets on the production line. Time-lapse shots of effervescent tablets run backwards from dissolved state to the finished form. Shots of pills being sieved and automatically produced, animated pills making patterns, substances for pills in cake form, substances for tablets being milled and sifted. We see tablets effervescing, in blister packs and some tiny tablets dancing a solo. The animation ends when a pile of animated tablets fill a jar of Saxin, on its side. Time start:00:06:24:12 Time end: 00:09:50:00 Length:00:03:25:48