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- 1 January 1968 (Creation)
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1 film (16mm black and white film with sound, 12 inch reel.)
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Consists of a film of a television monologue which was broadcast live on New Year's Day in Atlanta, Georgia (United States) by WSC-TV, labelled as unscripted.
This is a telerecording made from an original colour video.
Bronowski discusses subjects including reminiscences about Cambridge (such as a lecture by Einstein he had attended), physicists turning to biology after the Second World War, Rutherford's announcement on discovering neutrons, the discovery of DNA, attitudes to disease, questions about ageing and cancer, and his own work about the imagination being the difference between human and animals.
27 minutes and 20 seconds long.
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A digital copy is available to view at Jesus College.