Mechanism of the eye (TEFC) | Gakken Company | ACMI collection

The eyes of cattle are used as specimens to show the function of each of the structural members of the eye, and in addition a specially designed model lens is used to experimentally show the focusing mechanism of the crystalline lens of the animal eyes

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Credits

production company

Gakken Company

Duration

00:14:00:00

Production places

Unknown

Production dates

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

015440

Language

English

Subject categories

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Science - Study and teaching

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Educational films

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Anatomy

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Eye

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical films

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Science - Study and teaching

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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