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Sciences (18)

Chemistry (9)

  • Anger After Death
    Anger After Death
    Rick Raxlen 1971 28 min
    A film mingling documentary and dramatic elements to portray the effects of the threat of chemical and biological warfare on the contemporary mentality. The chemist who manufactures the secret weapons, the scientist who comments on them with complete detachment, the soldier of the First World War, killed by poison gas, who returns to life to discover the manner of his dying--all make their claims on the audience in an arresting, provocative way.
  • The Dirt on Soap
    The Dirt on Soap
    Sylvain Charbonneau 2000 1 min
    How soap cleans? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.
  • Explosives
    Explosives
    Sylvain Charbonneau 2001 1 min
    Are cows a time bomb just waiting to explode? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.
  • Fire
    Fire
    Sylvain Charbonneau 2001 1 min
    What lights your fire? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.
  • Herzberg
    Herzberg
    John McAulay 1979 18 min
    Gerhard Herzberg, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1971, is a molecular spectroscopist. This film shows Dr. Herzberg in his laboratory at the National Research Council in Ottawa where, with the aid of highly sophisticated instruments, he tracks down elusive bits of matter that are the keys to discovering what the planets, stars and the universe are made of.
  • Magic Molecule
    Magic Molecule
    Hugh O'Connor  &  Christopher Chapman 1964 9 min
    This short documentary introduces us to the colorful and versatile world of plastics. Transmuted from coal, oil or wood, synthetic substances can make thousands of new products, from silk threads to furniture.
  • The State of the Matter
    The State of the Matter
    Sylvain Charbonneau 2000 1 min
    A clip in the Science Please collection, The State of the Matter uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how temperature affects the state of matter.
  • Setting Fires for Science
    Setting Fires for Science
    Donald Brittain 1958 19 min
    This film shows the scientific study of fires set to buildings in Aultsville, Ontario, a town evacuated for flooding by the St. Lawrence Seaway. Scientists at Canada's National Research Council devised instruments for recording the progress of a fire in all its stages, to help the country's fire fighters lessen fire's tragic toll.
  • Science Please! Part 1
    Science Please! Part 1
    2001 15 min
    The Science Please! collection uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain various scientific discoveries and phenomena.

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