Horizon - Season 3 / Year 1966
Season 3 / Year 1966
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Episodes24
DatesJan. 2, 1966 - Dez. 25, 1966
Episodes
Year 1966Episode 160 min
Windows of the Soul
Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the experiments are to discover if our eyes can tell us things we might prefer to keep secret.
In Romania, more than forty thousand people have been given Gerovital H3, in the belief that it will make them younger.
Jan. 2, 1966
Year 1966Episode 260 min
The Troubled Mind
Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs.
The American equivalent of the British Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, met in Berkeley, California between Christmas and New Year.
Jan. 16, 1966
Year 1966Episode 360 min
A Man of Two Visions
A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley.
For a country striving to raise its productivity, the supply of applied scientists is tremendously important. Professor S. A. Tobias, an engineer, and Lord Todd, ex-chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council, discuss the problems of educating them and their importance in society.
Jan. 30, 1966
Year 1966Episode 460 min
A Theory of the Earth
Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States naval base in Port Magu, California. The research concentrates on the dolphin's abilities of navigation.
The eminent Canadian geologist, Professor Tuzo Wilson, explains his new 'Froth on the Broth' theory of the structure of the earth to David Wilson.
Feb. 13, 1966
Year 1966Episode 560 min
Route 128
North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is developing. Here men of high intellectual qualifications are developing way-out products, including a helicopter powered by radio waves, a computer which teaches medical diagnosis, and a hair-raising way of testing driving conditions.
Feb. 27, 1966
Year 1966Episode 660 min
The Beginning of Life
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.
März 13, 1966
Year 1966Episode 760 min
So You Want to Be an Inventor?
Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great industries and taxation problems to make their leaps into the unknown.
An account of a remarkable surgical operation recently performed in China.
März 27, 1966
Year 1966Episode 860 min
Chance and Decay
Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American scientist has just invented a method of preserving limestone.
In 1908, a vast explosion shook the Tungus district of Siberia: was it due to the biggest meteorite ever to hit the earth, or something odder?
Apr. 10, 1966
Year 1966Episode 960 min
Towers of Ilium
The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of Carl Blegen.
By A.D. 2,000, more than half the world's population may be living in cities. The population of some of them may exceed 60 million. This is one of the main preoccupations of the World Institute of Ekistics.
Apr. 24, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1060 min
Man in Space
Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they react to being in space and the stresses of launching and re-entry.
Mai 8, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1160 min
Destination Mars
Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars.
The Editors of two leading scientific magazines, Dennis Flanagan of the Scientific American, and Nigel Calder of the New Scientist, discuss with Gordon Rattray Taylor the problems of popularizing science and placing it in a social context.
Mai 22, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1260 min
Man Meets Duck
Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work on animal instinct and his theories about human instinct.
The world knows all about the uncanny mathematical abilities of the computer. But what happens when these machines learn to draw?
Juni 5, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1360 min
Where Must the Money Go?
Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, manned spaceflight experiments and accident research that gives valuable information on the limits of tolerance on the human body.
Juni 19, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1460 min
Genes in Action
Dr. John Gurdon talks about the action of the chromosomes puffing when they undergo intense genetic activity.
Sir Solly Zuckerman talks about his new book Scientists and War which outlines his views on the impact of science on affairs civil and military.
Juli 3, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1560 min
The Lonely Children
Horizon investigates the research conducted in England and America on the problems associated with autistic children.
Juli 17, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1660 min
Man of Science
This episode of Horizon reports on the famous science fiction writer, H. G. Wells.
An interview with John Maddox, the new editor of one of the world's most influential scientific journals, Nature, in which he discusses his ideas for bringing up-to-date the magazine's coverage of scientific events.
Juli 31, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1760 min
The Dolphins That Joined the Navy
Sept. 11, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1860 min
M.I.T's ABC
Sept. 25, 1966
Year 1966Episode 1960 min
Ten Years in the Antarctic
Okt. 10, 1966
Year 1966Episode 2060 min
The Athlete
Okt. 24, 1966
Year 1966Episode 2160 min
From Peenemünde to the Moon
Nov. 7, 1966
Year 1966Episode 2260 min
Sex-Change?
Nov. 21, 1966
Year 1966Episode 2360 min
The Structure of Life
Dez. 5, 1966
Year 1966Episode 2460 min
Hand Me My Sword, Humphrey
Dez. 25, 1966
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