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Show as what causes anemia, harden- .K, ing of the arteries, and prehaps the most vital of all mysteries, how long is life. The Ball System Science Series Ser-ies is designed to create a greater great-er awareness of the roll of science sci-ence in modern-day life i Bell System to Show ' Science Film March 20 "Hemo the Magnificent", the second program in the Bell Science Sci-ence Series, will be seen here on Wednesday, March 20 at 7 p.m., over station KSL-TV, Channel 5. The hour long program will show some of the most unusual pictures ever seen on television in telling the story of blood and its circulation. Academy Award winner Frank Capra, producer of "Hemo the Magnificent", dramatizes facts about blood and the circulatory circu-latory system with a combination combina-tion of animation, microscope photography, other medical photography, pho-tography, cartoon characters, and actors. Movies taken through a microscope actually show the flow of blood in the arteries, capillaries, cap-illaries, and veins. Other scenes show the beating of a living heart. Richard Carlson, known for both leading cinema and televisions tele-visions roles, and Dr. Frank Baxter, the famous University of Southern California television professor, are the 'featured actors act-ors in the film, who play the roles of Fiction Writer and Dr. Research. They share honors I with a series of cartoon charac- I ters including "Hemo,' the personification of blood. The story begins when Hemo reluctantly decides to listen to the story of blood as unfolded by Carlson and Dr. Baxter. Animation An-imation demonstrates the function func-tion of the heart, lungs, kidneys, and other organs involved in the circulatory system. The film continues with a section about the function of the heart. One sequence demonstrates demon-strates how and why the heart beat is speeded or slowed. The role of the barostat in controll-1 ing blood pressure to the brain is shown. And a theory of how blood may have evolved from sea water is explained. "Hemo the Magnificent" presents pre-sents information on how the blood feeds and services the cells of the body. Movies made through a microscope actually show sphincter muscles opening or closing capillaries to control the flow of blood. Animation sequences demonstrate how -the brain directs blood to the areas where nourishment is most needed- to the stomach when digesting digest-ing and to the muscles when moving about. The program closes with the hope that science will continue to learn more about blood and one day answer such questions |
