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A study of how the Pygmies of the Congo (Brazzaville) live. Deals with their relationship with government officials and with their sedentary Bantu neighbours. The Pygmies, reluctant to change, discuss...
Compilation of newsreels of the pre-1918 period with added commentary. Most sequences highlight special events - weddings, funerals, processions, state visits, and monarchy is very much to the fore. Social...
Otto Nicolai’s 1948 opera, translated and adapted by Norman Foster with the Zagreb Symphony Orchestra.
Shows illusions of 1) size by contrast and perspective, 2) motion with Exner’s spiral, 3) apparent motion (which is the basis of cinematography), and 4) pattern by rays across a square, by light and dark...
The phenomena to be observed on heating hydrates in air and in paraffin oil are demonstrated on Dr Kofler’s special heat-bench microscope. Most hydrates are shown to behave thermodynamically as...
Microphotographs made on Dr Kofler’s heat-bench microscope, using polarised light.*
Describes an experiment with ‘Fernsinn’, the apparent sixth sense developed by blind people, which warns them of the presence of solid objects. Using a particularly sensitive man who has been blind from...
Subject wears mirror spectacles which have the effect of inverting his visual field; subject’s adaptation during the experiment.*
Professor von Frisch on insect behaviour: how bees convey to the rest of the hive information about the source of nectar.*
Austrian radio adaptation of the scene of the play attributed to Shakespeare. Adapted by Richard Flatter and directed by Brunar Herbert. In an introductory comment, Flatter discusses Shakespeare’s part in...
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