Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Nuffield Foundation Unit for the History of Ideas
Cast & Crew
J
June Goodfield
Director
J
June Goodfield
Writer
F
Fotis Mestheneos
Director of Photography
The Perception Of Life
30 minDocumentary
Plot
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