The Perception Of Life

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.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

30 minutes

Year:

1964

Director:

Peter Whitehead

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Company:

Nuffield Foundation Unit for the History of Ideas

Cast:

Narrator

Crew:

Director

Director

Writer

Director of Photography

Still Photographer