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Gateways To The Mind

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keywords: retro education, biology, anatomy, the five senses, eyesight, sense of touch, hearing, sense of smell, sense of taste

Synopsis: Live action with a the help of some vintage animation the five senses of the human body are explored - sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste...(read more)

Date: 1958
Duration: 00:12:12
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: United States

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Gateways To The Mind

Gateways To The Mind

Close up of the moving parts of a movie studio camera as function of each part of the camera is explained. Cut from the "eye of the camera", focal lens of movie camera, to a human eye. Close up of human eye, human eye blinking. View of the retina of human eye as seen by optometrist. Animation used to illustrate how the human eye functions and gives humans the colorful, ever changing world of vision. Animated human body showing pathways of the nerves that transmit the senses of touch, cold, heat, pressure, and pain.

Animation shows the different actions taken by the human body when the finger touches a hot iron. The Doctor describes the workings of the inner ear and uses the silhouette images of a person balancing on one foot to explain the actions of the body to maintain balance. Slow motion of cat dropped from up-side-down position yet land on its feet. Circus scenes to illustrate the sense of pressure, sense of touch, sight, hearing, balance, smell, taste, cold, heat, and memory.

00:00:35;03

CU shot of movie camera lens

00:00:54;05

CU, Image finger points to film threading path of movie camera

00:01:14;16

CU, Image of human eye, video footage eye blinking. Blink of an eye

00:01:44;16

CU Image of retina of human eye

00:02:14;21

Animation image (footage) illustrates the functions of the human eye

00:03:55;17

Animated image of the human body with pathways of the nerves, end of finger that can sense touch, cold, heat, pressure, and pain