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What Is Life?
19708 min 22 secFilm: Animation
Production: Robert VerrallJoseph Koenig
Script: Kenneth Horn
What is it that distinguishes the living organism from the non-living, the particular quality common to all living forms? This animated film provides lucid explanation, as arresting in colour and form as in the facts presented, to engage the interest of all young enquiring minds. It shows clearly and succinctly what biophysics and biochemistry now perceive as the facts of life concerning evolution and the genetically determining factor of the DNA molecule.
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Subject categories
- Animals > Animal Life
- Sciences > Biology
- Plants > Plant LifeScience and Research
Credits
- producer
- Robert Verrall
- Joseph Koenig
- script
- Kenneth Horn
- animation
- Kenneth Horn
- animation camera
- Kjeld Nielsen
- sound editing
- Les Halman
- re-recording
- George Croll
- Michel Descombes
- narrator
- Richard Gilbert
- music
- Donald Douglas
Awards
- Chris Statuette International Film and Video Festival