Aerial view of rice fields filled with water in Hawaii. Fields with country houses in the background. Hawaiian workers work in refinery. Hawaiian women seated on chair working.
Scenic view of mist covered hills, in Hawaiian Island. Man holding container, stands next to trees and wall of rocks. A country house on open ground with mist covered mountains in the background. View of fields and mountains.
Film 'Story of Science' from International Library of Visual Aids. Acknowledgments and opening credits of the film as music plays in background.
Narrated feature about human curiosity and basic science. Sunlight glistens on snow-covered mountain edge. Trees on a mountain side. Girl in a hat runs along a mountain slope, beside melting snow fields, picking early spring flowers and putting them in a wicker basket. A boy plucks a flower and examines it with a magnifying glass.
Narrated feature about scientific discoveries and applications of the microscope. Actors portraying invention of microscope in Delft Holland. Actor grinds and polishes a lens. He looks through the microscopic lens at a drop of water and discovers minute living organisms. Actor portraying French chemist Louis Pasteur studies the microscopic forms of life found in the solution of ferment. He discovers that heat kills germs. Men ferment wine. Discussion of pasteurization, vaccinations, and Pasteur. Herd of sheep grazing. Boy contaminated with rabies comes to Dr Louis Pasteur. Boy bitten by a dog. He discovers a vaccine for the deadly rabies and gives it to the boy.
Narrated feature about scientific advances made possible by the microscope. Light passes through a glass. Prism causes the light to reflect in other direction. Animated picture of magnifying lens. Workers making glassworks in the Bausch and Lomb Company in New York, mixing sand and glass and then stirring of the molten mass in a furnace. Prince Rupert test of a glass drop. The glass mixture is dropped on ground for test and hammered. Cooling of large pot containing molten glass. Large tongs used to remove clay pot from furnace, and then pot covered with insulating material. Pot broken away after glass is cooled . The big piece of glass is broken into small lenses. Workmen examining and choosing lenses for grinding. Grinding of lenses with polishing agents. Animated picture of lenses in a microscope and the change of the course of the rays of light to show the larger virtual image. Assembly of a microscope. Microscopic view of various germs including typhoid and diphtheria. An unborn chicken in an embryo, viewed through the microscope. Blood circulating in a frog's foot, through the microscope. Malignant blood cells. Crystallization of various chemical elements viewed in the microscope.
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