https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5a5ceed7-9f11-45dc-ac14-a31f7c12736e Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part 2: https://youtu.be/tWYtaD_pwpE “Gateways to the Mind: The Story of the Human Senses” (1958) is an educational film sponsored by Bell Telephone as part of their series of programs on science. Produced by Jack L. Warner and directed by Owen Crump, this film details the science behind the human senses: sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. Taking place in a sound stage, the film follows as host Dr. Frank C. Baxter offers a series of live-action and animated clips providing detailed explanations of how the senses operate. This particular portion of the film delves into the senses of touch, taste, sound, and smell and the various scientists that made impactful discoveries about the human senses, like American physiologist Haldan Keffer Hartline and German physiologist Johannes Müller. Film opens, AT&T Bell Systems insignia (0:07). Opening credits plays over shots of a sound stage (0:19). Dr. Frank C. Baxter arrives on set (1:28). Reenactment of Aristotle meeting with students in Ancient Greece discussing the human senses (2:04). Dr. Baxter speaks with an animator on set, shows sketches for a caricature to represent the sense of touch based on Roman God Mercury (3:49). Animation to explain sense of touch begins; Close-up of Mercury running through the tip of the finger to the brain (4:45). Image of human body projected on wall, display of network of nerves in the body that carry signal messages to the brain (5:12). Projected image changes to Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist and physician (5:37). TDC-branded 1950s Portable reel tape recorder (similar to Harting HM5 Tape Recorder); Recording of actual electrical impulses, traveling from eye to brain plays (recording by American physiologist Haldan Keffer Hartline of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research) (6:17). Animation of electrical pulses passing through nerve network (6:45). Animation of human brain, explanation of where in brain different signals are received and deciphered (7:40). Portrait of Johannes Müller, German physiologist; Discussion of his contributions to understanding the brain (7:50). Dr. Baxter speaks with animator again, review sketches for representations of brain as a “command center” (8:12). Another animator plays animation with a caricature called “Joe the Commuter” explaining how brain receives and deciphers various signals (9:52-14:22). Film about sense organs of different organisms and animals: Shots of single-celled amoeba under microscope (14:38-17:38). Multi-celled animals: Jellyfish (15:05). Hermit crabs and crabs (15:28). Insects: Grasshopper, praying mantis, dragonfly (15:44). Fish (16:09). Chameleon (16:19). Alligator (16:31). Snake (16:40). Falcon (16:46). House cat (16:50). Chimpanzee (16:57). Man goes hunting with German Shorthaired Pointers dog (17:06). Explanation of how piano notes enter the ear and how the ear transforms these sound waves into music; Close-up Westrex console to control sound of microphones (17:40). Animator plays short animation to explain how sound waves enter ear (18:35-20:15). Live footage of human eardrum (19:08). Dr. Baxter stands around some portable reel tape recorders, plays another recording of optic nerve impulses taken by Dr. Hartline; Compared with recordings of impulses originating in taste buds and olfactory nerve by Dr. Lloyd Beidler (Florida State University) (20:29). Portrait of Edgar Douglas Adrian, British electrophysiologist, at University of Cambridge (21:38). Animation explaining how taste buds take in different stimulus (21:44). 16mm film projector (22:58). Footage of different animals with heightened senses of smell: Fawn (23:09). Moths (23:14). Ants (23:24). Bunny (23:29). Dog (23:36). Sense of smell related to molecules floating in air: Spring blossoms, bacon frying in pan (24:10). Animation depicting molecules entering the nose, electrical impulses to brain (24:30). Closing credits (24:57). Film ends (25:05). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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