Introduction to Biology

Titles. 18:31:58 Young girl looking at plants on window ledge w/ mother. Farm scenes w/ cow & sheep grazing, geese, combine harvester. Baby being vaccinated. Trotting horse race jockies on small sulkies. Sanitary worker spraying pesticide. Biologists working in laboratory - VO “biology is the study of all living things” 18:32:58 Montage: CU baby rabbit eating - tortoise hatching - cacti in desert. 18:33:06 Diagram showing two ‘Kingdoms’ of Biology - Botany & Zoology & sub-sections like Ornithology. Biologist looking through microscope - CU microscopic organisms. 18:34:12 Scientists injecting rabbit w/ disease - serum made from rabbit’s blood - female laboratory workers packing serum doses. 18:34:53 CUs mosquitos - men cleaning up swamp. Mosquito larvae under stagnant water - biologist in lab experimenting w/ oil coating to suffocate larvae in ponds. 18:36:07 Scientist using microscope; portrait of 16th Century scientist who developed it; CU cells through microscope. 18:36:33 Time-lapse photography of mushroom sprouting. Parasites growing. Time-lapse of sunflower opening. Single-cell amoeba. Underwater creatures - molluscs - octopus. Insects. Vertebrates: birds swarming - fish - snakes - mammals - baby calf drinking mother’s milk. Man standing upright in studio; fades to skeleton. 18:38:43 Cornfield. Diagram of photosynthesis. Time-lapse plant sprouting. Squirrel eating nuts. Cat catching white mouse as it emerges from hole in wall. Skunk family. Rabbit on alert. Plants w/ protective features. Koala bear eating eucalyptus. Giraffe eating leaves. 18:40:32 Man next to swimming pool - cuts to diagram of human body - lungs, circulation, valves of heart, energy release. 18:41:25 Theatre audience w/ superimposed images of ears. Internal view of human ear drum. CU human eye. Kids by swimming pool. 18:42:07 Reproduction: amoeba dividing into two parts - diagram of flower pollination - pigs & piglets - diagram of human fertilisation & embryo. Photograph of pioneer biologist Gregor Mendel. VO re biological manipulation of plants & animals w/ shots of horse - cattle - sheep - chickens - wheat & cornfields. Closing montage of many plants & animals inc. bees on honeycombe. Montage of animals. The End. Nature / Wildlife; Science; Animal Testing; Pharmaceutical Industry; Drugs; Farming / Agriculture; Oddities; Gags; Vivisection; 1952 Educational Films; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.