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Life and Radiation
196030 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Hugh O'Connor
Production: Hugh O'ConnorDavid Bairstow
Script: Joseph Koenig
This film begins with a discussion of the most familiar form of radiant energy--sunlight--and the basic similarities and differences between heat, radio waves, X-rays and gamma rays. The effects of atomic radiation on living things is then demonstrated, including a discussion of the possible genetic alterations.
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Subject categories
- Sciences > Biology
- Technology > BiotechnologyNuclear Energy and Radiation
- Environment and Conservation > Energy Resources
- Health and Medicine > GeneticsTreatment and Rehabilitation
Credits
- director
- Hugh O'Connor
- producer
- Hugh O'Connor
- executive producer
- David Bairstow
- script
- Joseph Koenig
- photography
- Albert Louis Coquillon
- Robert Humble
- Eugene Boyko
- sound
- Leo O'Donnell
- editing
- Robert Russell
- Lucien Marleau
- sound editing
- Don Wellington
- Victor Merrill
- animation
- Gerald Potterton
- Pierre L'Amare
- Kenneth Horn
- music
- Maurice Blackburn