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Season 3 · Episode 6

The Beginning of Life / Science Friction

0.01h 0mMarch 13, 1966

A remarkable Swedish film of the gradual development of the human embryo from fertilisation until birth. One man's impression of what science has done for the modern world: an animated film by Stan Vanderbeek.

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Episode 1Windows of the Soul / Elixir of Youth
Episode 2The Troubled Mind / Triple-A. S.
Episode 3A Man of Two Visions / The Scientist Applied
Episode 4The Dolphins that Joined The Navy / A Theory of The Earth
Episode 5Route 128
Episode 6The Beginning of Life / Science Friction
Episode 7So you want to be an Inventor? / The Severed Hand
Episode 8Chance and Decay / Meteorite Mystery
Episode 9Towers of Ilium / The Exploding City
Episode 10Man in Space
Episode 11Destination Mars / Editors in Conference"
Episode 12Man meets Duck / The Picture Machines
Episode 13Where must the Money Go? / Phantoms Incorporated
Episode 14Genes in Action / Scientists and War
Episode 15The Lonely Children
Episode 16Man of Science / 'Nature' Tomorrow
Episode 17M.I.T.'s ABC / The Disturbed Child
Episode 18Ten Years in the Antarctic
Episode 19The Athlete
Episode 20From Peenemunde to the Moon
Episode 21Sex-Change?
Episode 22The Structure of Life
Episode 23The Wages of Science