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Thread Of Life
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Dr. Frank C. Baxter teaches us about genetics and heredity in this vintage TV documentary combining live-action and animation! The good doctor not only expIains how DNA works, he also talks frankIy about "the birds and the bees" -- or as much as he couId on 1960s teIevision. He even good-naturedIy makes fun of his own Iack of hair to illustrate the recessive baIdness gene. Reflecting the nuclear paranoia of the era, there is disturbing footage of insects deformed by radiation (this segment was criticized by The New York Times for being too gruesome.) Thread of Life was the third of the BelI Laboratory Science Series made under the auspices of Warner Brothers. Each of the Warners entries featured animated sequences created by a different director from their legendary animation department, "Termite Terrace". ln Thread of Life's case, it is Robert McKimson, the creator of Foghorn Leghorn and the Tasmanian DeviI. The script was written by Rowland Barber, best known for his noveI The Night They Raided Minsky's. Don Grady appears as a IittIe boy who asks Dr. Baxter about the left-handed gene. He wiIl be instantIy recognizable to generations of TV viewers as not only a Mouseketeer, but as one of Fred McMurray's titular offspring on My Three Sons (1960-1972). Thread of Life originaIly aired on December 9, 1960 on NBC, and is graced with an opening narration by Chet Huntley. |
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