A million to one. Educational Services, Incorporated, 1961., 1961
Dates
- Creation: 1961
Language of Materials
Material is in English.
Access Restrictions
Access by appointment only. Applications to consult this material should be directed to the staff of the Harvard Film Archive.
Film prints are made accessible in close consultation with HFA staff. Although materials do not circulate for individual use, students, filmmakers, artists, and researchers are encouraged to use the collections on-site.
Extent
1 collection (61 16mm film prints)General note
Educational science film depicting physical properties of gases. A flea pulls a massive dry ice puck in an entertaining demonstration of the exceedingly small force needed to accelerate and keep a nearly frictionless body moving. Includes a short excerpt of Inertia, describing the dry ice puck. (source: upenn.edu) “Trained fleas courtesy of Professor Roy Heckler Hubert’s Flea Circus”
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Library, Harvard University Repository
The Harvard Film Archive is one of the largest university-based motion picture collections in the United States, with a collection of 40,000 audio visual items, a growing number of manuscript collections, and nearly one million still photographs, posters, and other promotional materials from around the world and from almost every period in film history. The HFA's collection of paper materials, including the documentation of individual filmmakers as well as promotional materials such as posters, film stills, and ephemera are accessible to Harvard affiliates as well as to outside researchers.
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