From a sun-drenched bathing beach to an awesome “gamma garden,” this film explores how heat, radio waves, x-rays and gamma rays affect various forms of life. It takes you to the radiological department of a modern hospital, to Canada’s atomic research center at Chalk River, and to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States, where plant growth is subjected to gamma radiation.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
008912
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Radio waves
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Radio waves
Documentary → Documentary films - Canada
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Biotechnology - Research
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Gamma ray bursts
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Heat
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Nuclear energy
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Nuclear physics - Research
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Radiation
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)