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- 12 November 1969-10 October 1973 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence between (Christopher Richard) Dick Gilling (producer) and Bronowski, Sylvia Fitzgerald or Kathleen Murray/Verlander.
Subjects include: Gilling meeting Bronowski when visiting the United States in 1969; locations and subjects to film; Bronowski sending Gilling scripts; Gilling visiting San Diego then Taiwan in 1970; Bronowski visiting London in 1970; filming grunion; planning the filming schedule; locations research; sending the BBC a film that Bronowski made for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Einstein ['The Nature of Things, 1960's]; re-recording commentary about bees in programme 12 after the first broadcast; and Bronowski requesting Gilling arrange introductions for Slava and Zella Luria to Doris Lessing, Ann Jellicoe and Reg Butler when the Lurias were visiting London.
Also includes: a note from Philippa Copp (BBC) sending Dick Gilling's research notes on Wayana Indians in French Guiana (notes included); a list of issues Bronowski discussed with Gilling by phone (16 Sep 1970); copies of letters to Gilling from Shirley Marks (Computer Sciences Department, Rand Corporation) on technical issues around getting film from a video display; and copies of correspondence with Dr Robert Briggs (Department of Zoology, Indiana University) about commentary on an experiment by Dr King and Briggs used to illustrate cloning in 'The Ascent of Man'.