[Harvard Forest Films] Reel 5

Date1968

AbstractReel 5 is a largely animated educational film about genetics and the role chromosomes play in heredity through mitosis and meiosis as well as chromosomal disorders. The early part of the film discusses early work done in the field by Thomas Hunt Morgan, Calvin Bridges, Karl Landsteiner and Hermann J. Muller. The film also contains a few live-action sequences, including a female patient having bone marrow extracted, which is then studied by scientists, and doctors examining male and female patients with the chromosomal disorders Down Syndrome, Turner Syndrome and Klinefelter’s Syndrome, intercut with animated sequences explaining the genetic origin of each disorder. Notes on film: “Association Films, Inc. 600 Grand Ave Ridgefield NJ. 07657”