Ascent of man > Parts 9-11
BBC-TV and Time-Life Films
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Creation:
- Created or produced in 1974
- Publication:
- New York, NY : Ambrose Video, [2001?]
- Related Series:
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- Summary:
- A television series surveying the development of science. Part 9 focuses on the architectural expressions of man throughout history from his efforts to build simple stone walls to his creation of modern Los Angeles. Film includes Greek temples and French cathedrals as examples of previous architectural design. Part 10 explores the world within the atom and traces the history of the men and ideas that have made 20th century physics one of the great achievements of human imagination. Part 11 considers the moral dilemma which confronts today's scientists by contrasting humanist traditions with the inhumanities of the Nazis and the harnessing of nuclear energy with the development of the atomic bomb. Covers the work of Karl Gauss, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and Leo Szilard.
- Table of Contents:
- Pt. 9. The grain in the stone (52 min.)
- Pt. 10. World within world (52 min.)
- Pt. 11. Knowledge or certainty (52 min.)
- Contributors:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- In English.
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- Subjects:
- System Details:
- DVD.
- Production Credits:
- Writer/narrator, Jacob Bronowski ; directors, Mick Jackson (pt. 9, 11), Dick Gilling (pt. 10) ; editors, Jim Latham (pt. 9), John Campbell (pt. 10), Paul Carter (pt. 11)
- General Notes:
- Videodisc release of the 1974 television series.
Public Performance rights included - Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; polychrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- ASC 1974 DVD
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1053012710
47918583 [Invalid]
