The View from within (TEFC) | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

Episode number 5 of Series “The Real thing”.
Looks at the complexity of the brain handling the simplest activity, like going to a party. James Burke’s consciousness steps out of his body for a while to demonstrate how it acts as “mission controller” for his own private universe

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Duration

00:29:00:00

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Unknown

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The Real thing

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The Real thing

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ACMI Identifier

015998

Language

English

Subject categories

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

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

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