I was in 6th grade, 1963, when the teacher rolled-in the movie projector and showed this film. After that I was in love with science. Now I know why - these Bell Telephone movies were produced by Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life).
Hey, I was in 6th grade when we saw this too. We saw four or five movies of this series and I seemed to remember seeing part of one of these film on TV years ago.
Overall I find the documentaries of the 50s, 60s, and 70s far more interesting, serious, and informative. They don't assume the viewer is an idiot with the attention span of a gnat, needing constant jolting with annoying rock music and frenzied cuts from one scene to another every three seconds. It's possible to think while watching.
I fully agree. I remember watching these movies back in elementary school and there are a few that I have found (in my 60's) that were my favorites (Hemo, the magnificent, about time documentary, etc..).
Yes, well said. They treated their audience as young people who had the capacity to absorb knowledge, not as mindless consumers who don't know how many States there are as is the case now. (Of course they DON'T know how many states there are, but regardless...) Your example about the constant frenzied jump cuts and music is a spot on. Something like this played today would bore the young audience to death.
This brings back great memories of the age when science was "in", because it was inherently fascinating to young people (and older, of course, but especially the younger audiences) and seen to be the key to the practical progress and intellectual growth of humankind. (I'm a bit surprised no one has noted---as far as I've seen--that this was directed and co-written by Capra, the man who directed IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, THE LOST HORIZON and other classics.)
I ran the 16mm film projector when we watched these Bell Labs films in elementary school in the 60's. I love the flashback of watching them again! Yes...I'm an engineer now. :-)
I was an AV geek as well. I set up a lot of these movies, especially if the teacher was out for the day. I also set up the TVs when there was something special like an astronaut landing or space walk or something like that. The 60's were great for all of these big events.
Exactly the same as me. However....the films came in with Bell commercials....but left without them. My buddy and I decided to put the editing stuff in our "film room" to good use. Nobody was ever the wiser.
I recall seeing a number of these wonderful science films in elementary school in the late 1950s - the post war golden age in America. 1957 was the anxious year of the Russian sputnik - a tremendous stimulus for bright curious kids to study science. Ironically my high school biology class was viewing a film on the circulation of the blood when the teacher broke in to announce that President Kennedy had been shot in Texas. The decay of optimism in the mid-60s . But still extraordinary progress in science and technology . I recall reading about theoretical physicist Murray Gellmann bringing order into the mystery of so many newly discovered particles : quarks with fractional electric charges. Then the Cosmic Background Radiation announcing the birth of the universe. Then the horror of the Vietnam War and the cover of Time Magazine in 1968 : " Is God Dead ? " Soon Albert Camus and The Absurd became more relevant to me than Albert Einstein and relativity ( with the exception of his essay " Why Socialism ? ".) How many kids today are starry eyed about THEIR future and excited about SCIENCE ? Has there been a decline in science literacy ? Curious I took the Christian Science on line test a few years ago. I did quite well - thanks to those Sputnik years. I miss those great science writers Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan. Let me mention one of Asimov's essays : " The Armies of the Night " - on the growing darkness in American science education.
this was a tremendous, fascinating comment and i thank you for walking me along as you recounted your experience. it was meaningful to me. thanks again and best wishes.
show looks like it was made for high school kids...but I'm 34 and gained a tremendous amount of understanding from it. Thank you very much for uploading!
Richard Carlson appeared in many movies and TV shows. Valley of the Gwangi, The Magnetic Monster, Riders to the Stars, It Came From Outer Space and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. I think they cast him when they needed a good looking scientist.
He was actually an extremely intelligent man and was deeply interested in science and science fiction. Being a former college teacher and academic, it seems he wanted to make films that had some educational value. He was always extremely believable when playing the scientist as a "good guy" in his science fiction films. I've always been fond of this actor!
THIS is how I learned the awe of scientific thinking, back in the '50s and '60s, when U.S. school kids were expected to be able to comprehend, not just memorize; to imagine, not just regurgitate answers on tests; to experiment, not just obey. This was education: the future was hope and potential, not school-to-prison pipelines to for-profit prisons. When did we become so cynical? When did predatory bullying become lauded over intellectual excellence:? Children live up -- or down -- to our expectations.
+GrannyGamer1 Agreed. I had the good fortune to have graduated in 1956 from a school that believed in education not indoctrination. Those days have gone the way of the dinosaurs. Critical thinking is but a distant memory.
Now I have to make a cloud chamber! OK at leasts google people who have. That is the coolest thing. Can't understand why my science teachers never had us make one. Speaks very poorly of our education system in America. Thanks to Matthew Ehret for the recommendation.
They're still not sure what gives cosmic rays the energies that they have, which are in the Giga-Giga eV range such that NO man made particle accelerator will ever be able to create them. They are bare atomic nuclei raining down on us at velocities very close to that of C. One theory is that galaxies themselves such as our own Milky Way act as giant particle accelerators moving these nuclei is spiral patterns from the center of the galaxy outward with the overall magnetic field of the galaxy providing the tremendous energies that they carry.
I remember watching all of these films with Dr. Baxter starting in the mid to late '60's in grade and middle school, and always enjoyed them. Going to science class was a treat in those days. These were so well written and age appropriate, and of course educational. I don't know what has replaced them nowadays. A scientific discussion of the 58 known genders I guess... Classical music background, a reference to the "creator," actual adult language, real scientific concepts? Never get made today, and if something like it did, it would be targeted to Graduate Level college courses. No way modern High School students could grasp the old elementary school concepts.
@@Amethyst_FriendRight, yeah, it all happened spontaneously. 🙄. You may still be right, but the Country and the World were better places when we did refer to a Creator.
This film--and others in the Bell series--is detailed in my new book SONNETS AND SUNSPOTS; DR RESEARCH BAXTER AND THE BELL SCIENCE FILMS available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bearmanor Media
I recall these fondly from grade school. It's just seemed there was generally greater interest and emphasis on learning and its value ( and not just for a job). Likely a lot of reasons, the whole Cold War competition (whole new science curricula were partly motivated by that), the post war energy and relief, our country's post war advantages, and more social cohesion and old fashioned ideas of "just doing the job" and perhaps even mire optimism. Possibly also more respect for research and research careers and less focus on mateRialism. Things just seemed less complicated, less hectic, less anxious (think about how precarious many feel about one medical problem away from a crisis). Oh hell, I don't know. Also, these films had high production value and I believe we're first made for special tv broadcast
When I was in elementary school they used to drag all the kids to the multi-purpose room to watch these films, while the teachers went out and smoked cigarettes and drank booze. Most memorable was Hemo The Magnificent, about blood circulation. Most significant was The Unchained Goddess (1958) which had a short segment about the risks of carbon dioxide emissions and global climate change, 30 years before James Hansen's Congressional testimony!
Loved it thank you for showing it. Joseph Sistrom my relation although im too young ever met him. His dad my mums uncle also a film producer william who also ran universal. What i was told from my mum. Joseph dad ran universal during period howard hughes disappearing acts. Howard asked him to name anything he wanted as reward. So he asked for a turkey farm, why no idea but that is what he wanted. William his dad retired to the plantation. Joseph himself went into film making did number of films involving stars james Mason, james stewart. Sadly non joseph children went in to film industry to continue the line.
And he was an extremely intelligent man who was well versed in science and one of the few actors in sci-fi films that truly enjoyed the genre. He seems to have been interested in education, hence these films and some interesting science related sci-fi pictures he made with producer Ivan Tors.
These films illustrate perfectly what is wrong with current teaching methods. Back then, the complexities of the world were broken down through metaphor and analogy. Now, simple topics are made more complicated so to make the instructors look more impressive. They dumb it down if trying to teach something complex, leaving out salient points along the way.
The animation is wonderful (sorry of like adult-geared 'Muppets.™®, and it's very engaging. It's also amusing as this was the 'atom-age'; everything would be nuclear - nuclear-powered, etc (or as that southern us uneducated fool said; 'nu-clar' (his name rhymes with 'bush'😉) Nuclear-everything was seen as the future, but, it was so misunderstood (as it's used in technology then and now, it's really just a way to boil water, sign thorn masked steam, but in the minds of people, it was 'space-age', so purple deepest thought of nuclear-powered automobiles. As for the (sigh) nuclear-powered plane (3:29) it only got as far as a test-engine, and in order to (just!) do that, they had to put so much screening material (good 'ol HEAVY LEAD. On a PLANE. Then, the thought of what happens if (JUST!) this engine were to crash. The contamination, etc. That was the END of THAT.
Gosh, I wish we had educational stuff like this now. Heck, the last thing I watched that was this interesting and educational was Bill Nye the Science guy but that was canceled a while ago.
This is a late reply, sorry. As I understand it, Bill Nye was a teacher that was frustrated with the education system. He turned to the educational show in order to make learning science fun and truly informative.
I haven’t seen any of these movies in probably more than 40 years until now. I always thought they were short films lasting only 10 to 20 minutes. Dr. Baxter used to always speak into a microphone and say something like roll one. What was that about?
It's like trying figure out how a piano is built and works by dropping it off a 50 story building and explode into a zillion broken bits and pieces, then giving each broken miniscule pieces a "part" name. No wonder the number of types of pieces seems to continue to grow none stop, dah!
Remember Poe, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky wanted a follow up to the story in 50 years. Here's a fact I found recently: all human knowledge up until 1960 can be acquired today in about 8 months of research. Image wikipedia with only 100 pages. That is how far science has progressed.
This series from Bell Labs was brilliant. I saw them in middle school. But....imagine showing them to middle schoolers today.....I doubt they'd understand much of the dialogue.....much less the science. Am I right or wrong?
I am a electronic engineer, and science seems to change every decade or so. And not because it progressives but man decides to add his own touch to it.
This was the fifties. We said the Lord's prayer and pledge allegiance every morning. Bible verses were read during a general assembly in the auditorium. I am talking about public schools in the northeast. Notice how they keep playing religious choir music and constantly refer everything to creation. Bell Labs was smart because they knew what they were up against
Do you think that the trend away from education and toward stupidity was accidental? The ruling class don't want a nation of thinkers, they want a nation of mindless consumers.
So they were going to reconvene in fifty years. As of this writing, it's been sixty-five years. They expected everything to come together, but physics got more confused in the meantime... which is arguably a good thing. Without new questions, it dies.
Yes please do hold a rock of unprocessed Uranium no gloves with enough radiation to move gold 10 inches away from you, let's power planes with its totally harmless.
Hmmmm, you have a bit more exploration to go, judging by your comment. A banana likely would achieve the same result with its radioactive potassium isotopes.
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No, it's actor Richard Carlson and I suspect due to his earlier years as a college academician, he was very interested in education and perhaps asked for the role in these film series.
Here's another mystery for you; If cosmic rays go through everything, then how did they SHIELD thier emulsion paper until they were ready to expose it. Isn't it ALWAYS exposed? 🤔
They could horizontally align the paper in a way to produce only dots at ground level, then angle the paper vertically (at altitude) for trails in the paper.
I was in 6th grade, 1963, when the teacher rolled-in the movie projector and showed this film. After that I was in love with science. Now I know why - these Bell Telephone movies were produced by Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life).
Hey, I was in 6th grade when we saw this too. We saw four or five movies of this series and I seemed to remember seeing part of one of these film on TV years ago.
Overall I find the documentaries of the 50s, 60s, and 70s far more interesting, serious, and informative. They don't assume the viewer is an idiot with the attention span of a gnat, needing constant jolting with annoying rock music and frenzied cuts from one scene to another every three seconds. It's possible to think while watching.
I fully agree. I remember watching these movies back in elementary school and there are a few that I have found (in my 60's) that were my favorites (Hemo, the magnificent, about time documentary, etc..).
And not some overly excited "scientists" spewing the same few phrases over and over and over
Yes, well said. They treated their audience as young people who had the capacity to absorb knowledge, not as mindless consumers who don't know how many States there are as is the case now. (Of course they DON'T know how many states there are, but regardless...) Your example about the constant frenzied jump cuts and music is a spot on. Something like this played today would bore the young audience to death.
@@johndelaney9399 I remember Hemo. And that Prof. Baxter suggested blood was originally sea water.
This brings back great memories of the age when science was "in", because it was inherently fascinating to young people (and older, of course, but especially the younger audiences) and seen to be the key to the practical progress and intellectual growth of humankind. (I'm a bit surprised no one has noted---as far as I've seen--that this was directed and co-written by Capra, the man who directed IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, THE LOST HORIZON and other classics.)
Saw these as a kid. Lots of good science presented in an entertaining manner.
I've always love the BELL SCIENCE movies. Informative, entertaining and they didn't treat you like an idiot.
I ran the 16mm film projector when we watched these Bell Labs films in elementary school in the 60's. I love the flashback of watching them again! Yes...I'm an engineer now. :-)
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I love Bell Labs educational films.
I did the same! Lol
I remember these being shown on Friday afternoons in my elementary school days in the 60's. they were the highlight of my week!
I was an AV geek as well. I set up a lot of these movies, especially if the teacher was out for the day. I also set up the TVs when there was something special like an astronaut landing or space walk or something like that. The 60's were great for all of these big events.
Exactly the same as me. However....the films came in with Bell commercials....but left without them. My buddy and I decided to put the editing stuff in our "film room" to good use. Nobody was ever the wiser.
I love this awesome old film!! So much better than many new, so called educational films.
I recall seeing a number of these wonderful science films in elementary school in the late 1950s - the post war golden age in America. 1957 was the anxious year of the Russian sputnik - a tremendous stimulus for bright curious kids to study science.
Ironically my high school biology class was viewing a film on the circulation of the blood when the teacher broke in to announce that President Kennedy had been shot in Texas. The decay of optimism in the mid-60s . But still extraordinary progress in science and technology . I recall reading about theoretical physicist Murray Gellmann bringing order into the mystery of so many newly discovered particles : quarks with fractional electric charges. Then the Cosmic Background Radiation announcing the birth of the universe.
Then the horror of the Vietnam War and the cover of Time Magazine in 1968 : " Is God Dead ? "
Soon Albert Camus and The Absurd became more relevant to me than Albert Einstein and relativity ( with the exception of his essay " Why Socialism ? ".)
How many kids today are starry eyed about THEIR future and excited about SCIENCE ? Has there been a decline in science literacy ? Curious I took the Christian Science on line test a few years ago. I did quite well - thanks to those Sputnik years.
I miss those great science writers Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan. Let me mention one of Asimov's essays : " The Armies of the Night " - on the growing darkness in American science education.
this was a tremendous, fascinating comment and i thank you for walking me along as you recounted your experience. it was meaningful to me. thanks again and best wishes.
1957 10 yrs old Greatest time to be a kid.
show looks like it was made for high school kids...but I'm 34 and gained a tremendous amount of understanding from it. Thank you very much for uploading!
Saw 'Our Mr. Sun' when it was broadcast on TV in 1956. Later in 1957 in 8th grade science class. Still interesting and fun to watch.
This film is SO MUCH BETTER than any of the "popular science" today, it's a shame that everyone hasn't seen it. Thanks for posting!
Richard Carlson appeared in many movies and TV shows.
Valley of the Gwangi, The Magnetic Monster, Riders to the Stars, It Came From Outer Space and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
I think they cast him when they needed a good looking scientist.
Hold That Ghost with Abbott & Costello too
Yes, it was usually Dr. Baxter by himself. I guess they wanted to punch this one up a bit.
He was actually an extremely intelligent man and was deeply interested in science and science fiction. Being a former college teacher and academic, it seems he wanted to make films that had some educational value. He was always extremely believable when playing the scientist as a "good guy" in his science fiction films. I've always been fond of this actor!
This is SO GOOD in so many MANY ways
Yep, so cool!! :)
Wonderful style of teaching... wish this one could be updated in this style.
FASCINATING 😀 Forget all the other videos this is the only video everybody need to watch!!!!!!!! Love it!!
THIS is how I learned the awe of scientific thinking, back in the '50s and '60s, when U.S. school kids were expected to be able to comprehend, not just memorize; to imagine, not just regurgitate answers on tests; to experiment, not just obey. This was education: the future was hope and potential, not school-to-prison pipelines to for-profit prisons.
When did we become so cynical? When did predatory bullying become lauded over intellectual excellence:?
Children live up -- or down -- to our expectations.
Nice!
+GrannyGamer1
Bravo!
+GrannyGamer1 so sad that the world you speak of is gone forever. The next generation is truly the zombie apocalypse.
thanx for sharing, it keeps hope, truth, and humanity alive.
+GrannyGamer1 Agreed. I had the good fortune to have graduated in 1956 from a school that believed in education not indoctrination. Those days have gone the way of the dinosaurs. Critical thinking is but a distant memory.
Great memories! Inspired me to go into science...very enjoyable to watch again!
I really loved these films.
"Air atoms", haha.
"Moses" name is Murray Gell-Mann.
Now I have to make a cloud chamber! OK at leasts google people who have. That is the coolest thing. Can't understand why my science teachers never had us make one. Speaks very poorly of our education system in America. Thanks to Matthew Ehret for the recommendation.
I saw these growing up made me a fan of science
Where do you get dry ice, though?
@@zoepaulastrassfield2664 restaurant ice supply store
Why this hasn't been released on DVD / Blu Ray is beyond me. Awesome.
It was released on DVD, but it's already out-of-print. Check Amazon or eBay.
They're still not sure what gives cosmic rays the energies that they have, which are in the Giga-Giga eV range such that NO man made particle accelerator will ever be able to create them. They are bare atomic nuclei raining down on us at velocities very close to that of C.
One theory is that galaxies themselves such as our own Milky Way act as giant particle accelerators moving these nuclei is spiral patterns from the center of the galaxy outward with the overall magnetic field of the galaxy providing the tremendous energies that they carry.
Still relevant today.
You get the prize for First Comment on a fascinating 7 year old YT video with 90,000 views!
A well told story. Entertaining and educational.
Outstanding Documentary! They don't make them like this anymore.
Terrific Childhood memory, thanks for this, Hope you have "Unchained Goddess" from 1958
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What is crazy is it has been over 50 years since this was recorded.
Yeah, and it is still so gom!! :D
r1b4z01d true - shows we haven't advanced that much
nikos, we have advanced tremendously.
r1b4z01d what’s sad is this is the first I’m ever learning of any of this
AND I WANT MY SEQUEL!
I remember watching all of these films with Dr. Baxter starting in the mid to late '60's in grade and middle school, and always enjoyed them. Going to science class was a treat in those days. These were so well written and age appropriate, and of course educational. I don't know what has replaced them nowadays. A scientific discussion of the 58 known genders I guess...
Classical music background, a reference to the "creator," actual adult language, real scientific concepts? Never get made today, and if something like it did, it would be targeted to Graduate Level college courses. No way modern High School students could grasp the old elementary school concepts.
School science lessons shouldn’t be saying anything about a creator
@@Amethyst_FriendRight, yeah, it all happened spontaneously. 🙄. You may still be right, but the Country and the World were better places when we did refer to a Creator.
This was so cute. We need puppets in more of today’s science documentaries
OMG. I've been looking for these guys for years. I watched them in the early 1970s.
Same here Lisa, those guys we're the best, very educational.
Wow!
I seen this in 7th grade...over 45 years ago!
Thanks for sharing!
Bell Labs educational films are the best!
This really through the "Science Dicks" for a loop!
I loved these films. Saw them in grade school in our auditorium. The best part was being out of class for an hour.
This film--and others in the Bell series--is detailed in my new book SONNETS AND SUNSPOTS; DR RESEARCH BAXTER AND THE BELL SCIENCE FILMS available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bearmanor Media
Just purchased a copy!
I recall these fondly from grade school. It's just seemed there was generally greater interest and emphasis on learning and its value ( and not just for a job). Likely a lot of reasons, the whole Cold War competition (whole new science curricula were partly motivated by that), the post war energy and relief, our country's post war advantages, and more social cohesion and old fashioned ideas of "just doing the job" and perhaps even mire optimism. Possibly also more respect for research and research careers and less focus on mateRialism. Things just seemed less complicated, less hectic, less anxious (think about how precarious many feel about one medical problem away from a crisis). Oh hell, I don't know. Also, these films had high production value and I believe we're first made for special tv broadcast
Interesting idea on making a cloud chamber with a clothes iron. pretty slick. at 21:00
When I was in elementary school they used to drag all the kids to the multi-purpose room to watch these films, while the teachers went out and smoked cigarettes and drank booze. Most memorable was Hemo The Magnificent, about blood circulation.
Most significant was The Unchained Goddess (1958) which had a short segment about the risks of carbon dioxide emissions and global climate change, 30 years before James Hansen's Congressional testimony!
Loved it thank you for showing it. Joseph Sistrom my relation although im too young ever met him. His dad my mums uncle also a film producer william who also ran universal. What i was told from my mum. Joseph dad ran universal during period howard hughes disappearing acts. Howard asked him to name anything he wanted as reward. So he asked for a turkey farm, why no idea but that is what he wanted. William his dad retired to the plantation. Joseph himself went into film making did number of films involving stars james Mason, james stewart. Sadly non joseph children went in to film industry to continue the line.
I am a space physicist, at least partially because of this film I saw in Jr. High.
Frank sure did a lot of cool stuff!
Actually..very good! A good way to reach science in an entertaining way 😊😊😄
I learned a lot! Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕
This looks fun, wish I had this in school. At least I now know where the fantastic four came from, lol
Actor Richard Carlson...I've seen him in many movies, many of then in the sci-fi genre.
And he was an extremely intelligent man who was well versed in science and one of the few actors in sci-fi films that truly enjoyed the genre. He seems to have been interested in education, hence these films and some interesting science related sci-fi pictures he made with producer Ivan Tors.
A fine film noir actor.
Atomic planes, Nice!
These are brilliant.
Awesome!
THREE CHEERS FOR STARDUST, it is!!! This was such fun. And now, 50 years later?....;)
These films illustrate perfectly what is wrong with current teaching methods. Back then, the complexities of the world were broken down through metaphor and analogy. Now, simple topics are made more complicated so to make the instructors look more impressive. They dumb it down if trying to teach something complex, leaving out salient points along the way.
The animation is wonderful (sorry of like adult-geared 'Muppets.™®, and it's very engaging.
It's also amusing as this was the 'atom-age'; everything would be nuclear - nuclear-powered, etc (or as that southern us uneducated fool said; 'nu-clar' (his name rhymes with 'bush'😉)
Nuclear-everything was seen as the future, but, it was so misunderstood (as it's used in technology then and now, it's really just a way to boil water, sign thorn masked steam, but in the minds of people, it was 'space-age', so purple deepest thought of nuclear-powered automobiles. As for the (sigh) nuclear-powered plane (3:29) it only got as far as a test-engine, and in order to (just!) do that, they had to put so much screening material (good 'ol HEAVY LEAD. On a PLANE. Then, the thought of what happens if (JUST!) this engine were to crash. The contamination, etc. That was the END of THAT.
53:57 "For the more we know of the creation, the closer we get to the creator!" ❤❤❤
My elementary teacher would play these shows on a movie projector as part of the daily science lessons
Gosh, I wish we had educational stuff like this now. Heck, the last thing I watched that was this interesting and educational was Bill Nye the Science guy but that was canceled a while ago.
This is a late reply, sorry. As I understand it, Bill Nye was a teacher that was frustrated with the education system. He turned to the educational show in order to make learning science fun and truly informative.
Awesome.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.
The "down down" guy from The Mole People?
These films were the predecessors to “It a Big World of Little Atom” series.
I haven’t seen any of these movies in probably more than 40 years until now. I always thought they were short films lasting only 10 to 20 minutes. Dr. Baxter used to always speak into a microphone and say something like roll one. What was that about?
These Bell science films inspired Sagan.
And me. I first watched them in my pre-teens.
Note that Dr. Baxter's Ph.D was in English, not science.
Science communication
It's like trying figure out how a piano is built and works by dropping it off a 50 story building and explode into a zillion broken bits and pieces, then giving each broken miniscule pieces a "part" name. No wonder the number of types of pieces seems to continue to grow none stop, dah!
lovely
Teaching with analogy and parable works
Remember Poe, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky wanted a follow up to the story in 50 years. Here's a fact I found recently: all human knowledge up until 1960 can be acquired today in about 8 months of research. Image wikipedia with only 100 pages. That is how far science has progressed.
Ha, thats true!
You actually trust wikipedia? how old are you anyway?
Well I believe people have gotten Dumber! Or is that more dumb? I'll leave now
So now it is 50 years later. Where are the new chapters?
On December 31, 1983, folks decided Ma Bell and the upcoming chapters had to go.
Higgs Boson, gluons, weak nuclear force, quarks: that's not good enough for you? 😉
@@teodelfuego Not without the magic screen! I want Dostoevsky back to comment on them!
Happy Richard Carlson’s Birthday!
ahh.. I remember this from WAY back... I haven't seen this in almost 40 years... (am I getting old...)
If you saw these 40 years ago, you aren't getting old; you've BEEN old for a while and just didn't notice.
Oh praise these olden days as the golden age (unless you were black or gay or European)
This series from Bell Labs was brilliant. I saw them in middle school. But....imagine showing them to middle schoolers today.....I doubt they'd understand much of the dialogue.....much less the science. Am I right or wrong?
62 years later and I'm watching this while writing my PhD thesis on cosmic rays.
And there is a digital copy of this thesis you scribe available to read???
1:05 Dr. Research is like "*this* is what you came up with?!"
Ahhhh, the good old days when Americans were not science deniers. Heartwarming memories.
Gene C
Science has been hijacked
I am a electronic engineer, and science seems to change every decade or so. And not because it progressives but man decides to add his own touch to it.
This was the fifties. We said the Lord's prayer and pledge allegiance every morning. Bible verses were read during a general assembly in the auditorium. I am talking about public schools in the northeast. Notice how they keep playing religious choir music and constantly refer everything to creation. Bell Labs was smart because they knew what they were up against
Do you think that the trend away from education and toward stupidity was accidental? The ruling class don't want a nation of thinkers, they want a nation of mindless consumers.
There is an intentional dumbing-down of America going on now! It's been sad to watch!
Any other girls wish they had a figure like Ms. Ultra-Violet?
13:22 just ruined your day
Why is there an extra bad guy in the jail at 7:37? lol
7+3+7=8 infinity and beyond...
That is Mr Magoo. This may help discover why.
@@GraveTender333 Perhaps X- ray
So they were going to reconvene in fifty years. As of this writing, it's been sixty-five years. They expected everything to come together, but physics got more confused in the meantime... which is arguably a good thing. Without new questions, it dies.
i wanna see the updated version of this!!!
Me too!
Does anyone remember or have a link for the school film from this era about Telling Time - how arbitrary clocks are? Dying to find it.
There's one I've been looking for that deals with the human heart that I'm pretty sure is done by these two guys. Anyone have a link to it?
Yes please do hold a rock of unprocessed Uranium no gloves with enough radiation to move gold 10 inches away from you, let's power planes with its totally harmless.
Hmmmm, you have a bit more exploration to go, judging by your comment. A banana likely would achieve the same result with its radioactive potassium isotopes.
looking for someone with this similar voice to recite quotes for a music project I am working on, any recommendations??
did they make the 50 year update ! in 2007
Those are CHEMTRAILS they were given us PROPAGANDA on CHEMTRAILS all the way back then, unreal.
Pssst, it's the Cosmic Microwave Background from the Big Bang! (Heh, heh, hindsight is 20/20...)
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This is not a cult, it's not a cult, it's not a cult! It's a test of the emergency broadcast system! I'll leave now!
Interesting, love that puppets ;D haha
Quarks?
I'm guessing the younger guy was picked due to his facial similarity to Richard Feynman?
No he played in many Sci-Fi movies!
No, it's actor Richard Carlson and I suspect due to his earlier years as a college academician, he was very interested in education and perhaps asked for the role in these film series.
good show
10:39 "... science dicks"...?
Wait what?
***** Lmfao, what else could it be?
+Joshua Walters ...I just watched a old plumbing Doc. that said pipe is layed every minute of the day, every day of the week.....LMAO
Dick in those days meant "a detective"...
Here's another mystery for you;
If cosmic rays go through everything, then how did they SHIELD thier emulsion paper until they were ready to expose it. Isn't it ALWAYS exposed? 🤔
They could horizontally align the paper in a way to produce only dots at ground level, then angle the paper vertically (at altitude) for trails in the paper.
totally random and bizarre internet comment for today: @01:38 Abe Vigoda puppet. Looks just like him, even has his mannerisms!
Good old days.
good example of mandela effect residue. look at globe...south america is farther west.
Dr Becker as we remember
Dostoevsky's puppet is so terse and sardonic in his comments. Makes me laugh.
Cosmic rays unstoppable but yet 15,000 feet of atmosphere cuts their intensity by 50%. Sounds like bs.
"down, down..."
To the very nipple of the world!
Who was that last form of radiation? The one in the prison cell with the others?
Is that Darren McGavin? (The "old man" from A Christmas Story?)
No, it's actor Richard Carlson. You may remember him from "Creature from the Black Lagoon " best.
This is boomer school science from the 50's and 60's!
Fosho
Nuclear... back then when nuclear power was the future. In those days things were different.