Learning on ScreenLiving Body, The (26 Parts)
- Synopsis
- A series examining the human living body in its entirety, answering questions such as what underlies movement, thinking, eating and breathing, how one body gives birth to another, how can the human eye be so accurate or muscle so forceful. Uses specialist photography, computer graphics and specially commissioned models to explore the body from every angle.
1: Introduces the series and examines the many different ways we look at the living body.
2: The surface senses - touch, taste and smell - and how these receptors work.
3: The senses that detect information from a distance - sight and hearing.
4: How the body is actually bustling with activity when it is fast asleep and appears to be doing nothing at all.
5: How the body changes shape and size, developing and maintaining a target size.
6: Water in the body and how the kidneys function to keep the body in balance.
7: Body events occurring between the desire for food and its arrival in the stomach.
8: Digestion - the breaking down of food and its journey through the digestive system. How the cooperation of liver, pancreas, gall bladder and brain are essential. The importance of carbohydrates, protein and fats in nutrition.
9: How muscle cells produce power and movement. The anatomy of muscle, with an example of the muscles involved in a smile, a wink and a kiss.
10: How joints and nerves allow the body to move smoothly. How the many different joints in the body appear to be custom-designed for the functions they have to perform. Compares the differences between a child, and adult and an old person.
11: The nervous system - nerve signals and how they are transmitted around the body. The part played by nerve messages in reflex activities that can mean the differenc between life and death.
12: Brain activity and its importance. How the other organs have one immediate aim - to preserve the best environment for the prain for it to function with maximum efficiency at all times.
13: The neural network and how it make man different from animals. The brain’s structue allows complicated reasoning and considerable innovation of thought.
14: How the body copes with extreme of temperature - how it can conserve heat through shivering, hair erection and re-routing of blood supplies and how it loses heat when necessary through increased blood flow to the surface of the body by sweating and panting.
15: Describes the heart as two pumps sharing a common space in the chest. How its structure enables it to work for 70 years and more. How the three basic components of heart activity - muscle, valves and pacemaker - contribute to the overall variations in output demanded by daily life.
16: How breathing works and why the body needs regular supplies of air. Follows the events of breathing through the ultra-thin membrane of the lung into the blood and shows how the differing demand for oxygen is met by the cooperation of the brain and the chest muscles.
17: The circulatory system and its significance. The structure of veins and arteries and their importance in the continued maintenance of the heart. Follows the journey of a red blood cell and explains how oxygen and food are deliveres and how wastes are removed.
18: Puberty, dependent largely on a careful interplay of hormones and growth, and how the male and female bodies are prepared for their task of reproduction. The characteristics of sperm and ova, the mechanism of cell division (using micro-photography) and how the mechanisms for heredity work.
19: Hormones, which are important for controlling and coordinating bodily processes. The interplay of hormones is responsible for the events of reproduction from puberty through gestation to the short-term events of breasfeeding. They also are vital in the response system.
20: The body’s own repair kit - how the body’s own resources can deal with cuts, wounds, fractures, etc.
21: The role of the spleen, the lymphatic system and white blood cells and how they defend the body from invasions of harmful viruses and bacteria. Using the common cold as an example, shows the stagesof the body’s defences from virus to recovery.
22: Attraction, desire and sex and how they lead to conception. Reproduction is the most important task of the body. Shows how sexual behaviour is firmly rooted in the underlying physiological events.
23: The events that build a fertilised cell into a human baby in 40 weeks. Using film of living foetuses in the womb, shows how a baby develops from the basic cell mas. Examines the timing of the different stages of foetal development and looks at what life must be like in the womb for a foetus that sees and hears and moves.
24: Childbirth. Using models and fetoscopy shows the events from the babys viewpoints. Also shows how the psychological events immediately following the birth have avital rols in mother-baby bonding.
25: The biological effect of ageing. Why we have to age and how the body’s systems change with age. How not all the changes of aging are inevitable but can be slowed or reversed.
26: Summarises the series and notes that the tasks the body has to perform to survive have led to some of the most marvellous examples of design and function in the natural world. - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 x 26 min.
- Year of production
- 1984
- Availability
- out of distribution
- Notes
- Broadcast from Sep 84 on Channel 4.
See also: THE NEW LIVING BODY - Subjects
- Biology
- Keywords
- ageing; anatomy; brain; childbirth; circulatory system; digestive system; growth; hormones; joints; kidney function; knees; lungs; nerves; nervous system; nutrition; physiology - human; reproductive system; respiratory system; senses; sexuality; sleep
Credits
- Contributor
- Christian Barnard; Geoffrey Burnstock
Sections
- Title
- Landscapes and interiors
- Synopsis
- 1: Introduces the series and examines the many different ways we look at the living body.
- Title
- Skin deep
- Synopsis
- 2: The surface senses - touch, taste and smell - and how these receptors work.
- Title
- Eyes and ears
- Synopsis
- 3: The senses that detect information from a distance - sight and hearing.
- Title
- Dream voyage
- Synopsis
- 4: How the body is actually bustling with activity when it is fast asleep and appears to be doing nothing at all.
- Title
- Growth and change
- Synopsis
- 5: How the body changes shape and size, developing and maintaining a target size.
- Title
- Water
- Synopsis
- 6: Water in the body and how the kidneys function to keep the body in balance.
- Title
- Eating to live
- Synopsis
- 7: Body events occurring between the desire for food and its arrival in the stomach.
- Title
- Breakdown
- Synopsis
- 8: Digestion - the breaking down of food and its journey through the digestive system. How the cooperation of liver, pancreas, gall bladder and brain are essential. The importance of carbohydrates, protein and fats in nutrition.
- Title
- Muscle power
- Synopsis
- 9: How muscle cells produce power and movement. The anatomy of muscle, with an example of the muscles involved in a smile, a wink and a kiss.
- Title
- Moving parts
- Synopsis
- 10: How joints and nerves allow the body to move smoothly. How the many different joints in the body appear to be custom-designed for the functions they have to perform. Compares the differences between a child, and adult and an old person.
- Title
- Nerves at work
- Synopsis
- 11: The nervous system - nerve signals and how they are transmitted around the body. The part played by nerve messages in reflex activities that can mean the differenc between life and death.
- Title
- Decision
- Synopsis
- 12: Brain activity and its importance. How the other organs have one immediate aim - to preserve the best environment for the prain for it to function with maximum efficiency at all times.
- Title
- Our talented brain
- Synopsis
- 13: The neural network and how it make man different from animals. The brain's structue allows complicated reasoning and considerable innovation of thought.
- Title
- Hot and cold
- Synopsis
- 14: How the body copes with extreme of temperature - how it can conserve heat through shivering, hair erection and re-routing of blood supplies and how it loses heat when necessary through increased blood flow to the surface of the body by sweating and pa
- Title
- Two hearts that beat as one
- Synopsis
- 15: Describes the heart as two pumps sharing a common space in the chest. How its structure enables it to work for 70 years and more. How the three basic components of heart activity - muscle, valves and pacemaker - contribute to the overall variations in
- Title
- Breath of life 1
- Synopsis
- 16: How breathing works and why the body needs regular supplies of air. Follows the events of breathing through the ultra-thin membrane of the lung into the blood and shows how the differing demand for oxygen is met by the cooperation of the brain and the
- Title
- Life under pressure
- Synopsis
- 17: The circulatory system and its significance. The structure of veins and arteries and their importance in the continued maintenance of the heart. Follows the journey of a red blood cell and explains how oxygen and food are deliveres and how wastes are
- Title
- Shares in the future
- Synopsis
- 18: Puberty, dependent largely on a careful interplay of hormones and growth, and how the male and female bodies are prepared for their task of reproduction. The characteristics of sperm and ova, the mechanism of cell division (using micro-photography) an
- Title
- Messengers
- Synopsis
- 19: Hormones, which are important for controlling and coordinating bodily processes. The interplay of hormones is responsible for the events of reproduction from puberty through gestation to the short-term events of breasfeeding. They also are vital in th
- Title
- Accident
- Synopsis
- 20: The body's own repair kit - how the body's own resources can deal with cuts, wounds, fractures, etc.
- Title
- Internal defences
- Synopsis
- 21: The role of the spleen, the lymphatic system and white blood cells and how they defend the body from invasions of harmful viruses and bacteria. Using the common cold as an example, shows the stagesof the body's defences from virus to recovery.
- Title
- Coming together
- Synopsis
- 22: Attraction, desire and sex and how they lead to conception. Reproduction is the most important task of the body. Shows how sexual behaviour is firmly rooted in the underlying physiological events.
- Title
- New life, A
- Synopsis
- 23: The events that build a fertilised cell into a human baby in 40 weeks. Using film of living foetuses in the womb, shows how a baby develops from the basic cell mas. Examines the timing of the different stages of foetal development and looks at what li
- Title
- Into the world
- Synopsis
- 24: Childbirth. Using models and fetoscopy shows the events from the babys viewpoints. Also shows how the psychological events immediately following the birth have avital rols in mother-baby bonding.
- Title
- Ageing
- Synopsis
- 25: The biological effect of ageing. Why we have to age and how the body's systems change with age. How not all the changes of aging are inevitable but can be slowed or reversed.
- Title
- Design for living
- Synopsis
- 26: Summarises the series and notes that the tasks the body has to perform to survive have led to some of the most marvellous examples of design and function in the natural world.
Distributor
- Name
Focal Point Audio Visual Ltd
- cservice@focalpointvideo.co.uk
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- 023 92665249
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