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DARWIN-RELATED, CREATIONISM

X 221158 19:39:43 - 19:50:55 1958 USA COL SD The Wonder Of Our Body (1958)
Moody Institute of Science [main title missing]
Religiously-slanted educational from Moody’s Wonder series.
Young boys into Uncle Bob’s hardware store w/ broken camera. Uncle Bob tells the boys about history of photography & that man’s invention can never compare to the human eye - uses camera lens to explain - cutaways to animation of eye. “They’re only one part of the wondrous body God has given us” - “This house we live in is made up of many remarkable things” - points out that what they can see isn’t just a still, silent picture - look out window at other boys playing ball game. Cue lecture about the human ear - cutaway to pianist playing & cross-section diagram of human ear - human ear bone - same size from birth - baby w/ doctor. Uses of human hand not replicated by science - robotic arm pouring coffee & handing cup to woman. Uncle Bob talks about human “chemical plant” - shots of workers stoking furnace, man eating sandwich etc. - man sweating.
19:47:58 Graphic CU human heart beating. Blood through blood vessels seen through microscope. Row of 12 pints of blood; oil tankers past to illustrate quantity of blood pumped in lifetime. “If you live to be 65 years old, your heart will have pumped two and one half thousand million times and without one single shut-down for repairs!”. Uncle Bob summarises other amazing wonders of the human body [no mention of sex or reproduction].
19:49:21 Religion stepped up: “I guess God went to a lot of trouble, just to make our bodies so perfect” / “Yes, the way we are made does show His great wisdom and power”. Uncle Bob says “we should keep ourselves clean” not just from ordinary dirt but from “the kind that will spoil our hearts and minds” - advises healthy diet & “good clean exercise”. Kids out to play; Bob hangs ‘Back in One Hour’ sign on door so he can join kids at ball game.
Religion - Christianity; Biology; Anatomy; Health; Optics; Robotics; Anti-Darwinism

LN 000-002 220358 02:07:00 - 02:15:58 1930s usa B/W SD Popping The Cork
Educational Pictures
Prod. Jack White; Dialogue E.B.Colvan; Story Harold Atteridge; Dance Dir. Bob Alton
With Milton Berle, Norma Taylor, Mary Cole, Gertrude Mudge
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CU “College Snitch” newspaper w/ headline “Oxy College For Repeal”. CU sign: “Oxidontal University”. Staircase / college entrance lined w/ men in football pants throwing balls to one another and girls skipping w/ ropes. Line of girls in white sportswear emerge w/ vars racquets, balls etc. Football players line up w/ REPEEL spelt out on back of jerseys.
02:08:02: College Dean talks w/ young woman (Gloria). Man w/ Panama hat and fur coat arrives (Elmer), greeted by football players. Woman embraces man in fur coat. Football players admire coat; he opens it to reveal just bathing trunks. Another man in fur coat w/ bathing cap arrives, opens coat to reveal fur bathing suit. Woman asks man for fur coat; jocks huddle round him while he takes off coat and gives it to her; other man brings him suit to change into.
02:11:21: Gloria’s mother arrives w/ Dean; “Oh look at the boys, they’re always playing.” Football players leave Elmer exposed in front of Gloria’s mother.
02:13:08: VS radio broadcast of student debate on prohibition. Man at microphone making speech; script altered by Elmer; gag: “You’re trying to make a monkey out of me!” / “It’s too late, a guy named Darwin beat me to it.” Elmer makes pro-repeal speech; ticker-tape machine in BG; college professors exchange weary glances. Gloria leaves w/ “Meet me at Oxy Roadhouse” chalked on skirt.
1930s Americana. Gags. University life. Fashion. Prohibition. Jazz Age. Morality.

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