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CBM254A
THE COLD
Video
A look at the physiological mechanisms that enable us to withstand hostile
environments, and the formation of ice on airplane wings. Also explores the dream of
immortality through freezing. 23 minutes.
CBM254B
COLOR
Video
The perception of colors; the relationship between psychological responses and physical
phenomena; and how colors are used in inks and paints. 23 minutes.
CBM255
CONVEX AND CONCAVE LENSES
Video
Experiments show the differences in function between a convex and a concave lens, and
the differences in image produced by differences in the arrangement and combination of
lenses. 10 minutes.
CBM257
CROSSING THE SILENCE BARRIER
Video
This program examines technological advances that help the hearing disabled, including
a system that enables deaf people to see one another’s sign language over the
telephone. It also describes speech recognition and synthesis, which will permit
total communication between the deaf and the hearing. 26 minutes.
CBM259
THE DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT
Video
Place an object in the path of light traveling in a straight line, and the course of
some of the light changes. This is the phenomenon of diffraction. 9 minutes.
CBM261
THE EARS AND HEARING
Video
This program visualizes the structure of the human ear and shows how it transmits
sound waves to the brain. The camera also explores hearing malfunctions. 22
minutes.
CBM263
THE ESSENCE OF AN INSTRUMENT
Video
This program analyzes the essential features required in any instrument if a usable
musical sound is to be produced. The program examines how energy can be provided to
produce a continuous note, how sound can be amplified, how amplification changes the
quality of sound, and the consequences for music produced by synthesizers and
computers. 60 minutes.
CBM265
EYE EXAM
Video
This program uses a quiz format to explain such conditions as myopia,
hyperopia, presbyopia, cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, “floaters” and light
flashes, and macular degeneration. Treatments are also described, and the point is
stressed that regular eye exams are the best defense against the gradual loss of
vision. 19 minutes.
CBM269
EYES AND EARS
Video
This program is devoted to the senses that bring information of more distant
events. The camera shows a reckless driver careening down a road — and then
takes the viewer inside his eye, where the image of the potential crash site is
pictured. The camera enters the ear, showing how the linked bones vibrate in
response to a sound, and a computer graphic sequence shows how the eye focuses on an
image. 26 minutes.
CBM271
THE EYES AND SEEING
Video
This program goes through a step-by-step investigation of how the eye works.
Close-up studies of the parts of the eye provide a distinction between the physical
process and the electrochemical process of seeing. 19 minutes.
CBM273
FIGURES OF SPEECH
Video
This program examines the new technologies in voice research: fiber optic cameras
to study the larynx in motion, computer-generated voice analogs, and the potential for
human/computer dialogue. 26 minutes.
CBM275
FRESNEL LENSES
Video
An arrangement of triangular prisms functions like a convex lens. Experiments
with the Fresnel lens demonstrate the properties of the convex lens. 10 minutes.
CBM277
GATHERING LIGHT
Video
In the proper position, plane mirrors placed in an arc can focus light on a single
point. Small mirrors set concavely along the inside of a rounded surface and facing
the sun can gather solar energy at the focal point of the mirrors. 10 minutes.
CBM279
HEARING
Video
This program explores some of the difficulties encountered by the hearing impaired in a
speaking world. It examines their two principal methods of communication: sign
language and lip reading. It visits classes in a school for the deaf, shows how the
hearing impaired learn to communicate, and explores the role of surgery in treating
hearing disorders. 19 minutes.
CBM280
HEARING
Video
How sounds, tones, and signals are received and made perceptible and
comprehensible. 28 minutes.
CBM281
HEARING LOSS
Video
This program discusses different varieties of hearing impairment: hearing loss,
tinnitus, and Meniere’s disease. It also demonstrates different ways in which
mechanical aids, medications, and surgery can correct some problems. 26 minutes.
CBM283
HOW WE COMMUNICATE
Video
We owe our ability to communicate with neighbors, strangers, and even people of other
countries and continents to our powers of speech and our opportunities to learn foreign
languages. Severely hearing and speech impaired people have to communicate by facial
expression, gestures, and sign language — and animals rely mainly on “body
language”. 30 minutes.
CBM285
THE HUMAN VOICE
Video
The human voice is our most important means of communication. It enables us to
speak — and it also conveys our feelings. This video explains how the human
voice works, how a sound is produced, and what organs have to work together to turn a
basic vocal sound into speech or singing. 30 minutes.
CBM287
THE IMAGE
Video
These experiments establish the nature of the relationship between object and lens,
between the relative positions of object and lens, and between the size of the lens
surface and the brightness of the image. 8 minutes.
CBM293
LENSES
Video
The mechanism of the lens and of focusing are shown through a number of
experiments. A flask filled with water can focus light on one point; parallel beams
of light passing through glass blocks of various shapes are variously refracted,
unaffected, and focused. 10 minutes.
CBM295
LIGHT AND SHADOW
Video
The relationship between light and shadow is explained through a number of
experiments: the casting of a simple shadow, casting the shadows of two objects on a
screen, and a variety of other intriguing examples of light and shadow. 11 minutes.
CBM297
MAKING SENSE
Video
Intelligence is not a requisite for survival, but being sensate is. This program
looks at the development of sensation from the primitive sensitivity of a simple organism
to the sophistication of perception in the human. It looks at both the scientists
and the philosophers who have contributed to our understanding of what the senses
are. 26 minutes.
CBM299
MAN THE ANTENNA
Video
Man has five senses at his command to perceive the various stimuli arising from his
environment. This program introduces the five senses and explains their function by
means of experiments and animation sequences. 30 minutes.
CBM300
NEW SIGHT
Video
A look at how our eyes and brain enable us to see; the causes of visual problems; and
research on artificial vision, which aims to provide robots with vision equivalent to
human vision. 23 minutes.
CBM301
NOISE POLLUTION
Video
This program looks at the latest research into the impact of noise on health, as well
as the efforts of aircraft manufacturers, airports, and residents in the path of
low-flying planes to minimize noise or actually to cancel it out through the generation of
“anti-noise” at selected sound frequencies. 26 minutes.
CBM305
THE PROPERTIES OF LIGHT
Video
This program examines the relationship between light and sight, its property of
traveling in a straight line, and the difference between sunlight and electric
light. 9 minutes.
CBM307
REFLECTION OF LIGHT
Video
Experiments with light reflected from a mirror illustrate the scientific laws of angle
of incidence and angle of reflection. 9 minutes.
CBM309
REFRACTION OF LIGHT
Video
Experiments with the refractive property of light examine various applicable laws,
including the effects of the degree of refraction. 10 minutes.
CBM311
SCALES, SYNTHESIZERS AND SAMPLERS
Video
This program covers the engineering of the modern piano, the origin of scales, and the
inability of keyboard instruments to produce scales in all keys exactly in tune.
Synthesizers demonstrate both the problem and its solution. 60 minutes.
CBM312
THE SCIENCE OF HEARING
Video
This program guides us through the inner ear, explaining how the eardrum and the
cochlea function to create hearing. The program also shows the effect of science on
the music world. 25 minutes.
CBM313
SCIENCE, STRINGS AND SYMPHONIES
Video
This program shows how the demand for more powerful sounds was met. It also
examines the ways in which scientific methods complement the skill of craftsmen in making
instruments, and shows how laser interferometry can reveal how the body of the
instrumentalist contributes to the production of sounds. 60 minutes.
CBM315
THE SENSE OF HEARING
Video
The perception of sounds, tones, and noises plays an important part in human
life. This program shows the complex structure of the organs of acoustic perception
and demonstrates their functions by means of models and trick animation sequences.
30 minutes.
CBM315A
THE SENSE OF TOUCH
Video
How the human receives information; what kinds of information are imperceptible because
we have no receptors for them; and what happens to human information processing if a major
sense is lost. 28 minutes.
CBM316
THE SENSES
Video
This program examines the role that our senses play in providing us with information
about the world around us. Our brain depends upon the information from all our
senses being integrated so that the brain is provided with consistent data that it can sue
to direct our actions. The program demonstrates how the senses of sight and balance
operate, as well as how they interact with each other. It discusses using modern
technology to overcome our sensory limitations. 20 minutes.
CBM317
THE SIXTH SENSE — AND THE REST
Video
This program looks at some of the sensory experiences of animals that humans can
glimpse only through physical instruments of detection and measurement: rattlesnakes
use infrared detector organs to sense the position of their warm prey; many insects can
sense the plane of polarization of light; bats use ultrasound echolocation to guide their
flight; many fish have electric field organs; and bacteria and birds have a magnetic
sense. 26 minutes.
CBM318
SKIN
Video
The topic of skin is introduced by viewing a typical collection of bodies on a
sun-drenched beach. We are familiar with the sight of skin exposed to the sun, but
do we know what is actually happening to the skin surface? Using scanning electron
microscopy, we get a bug’s-eye view of the living barrier between our body and the
outside world. The detailed internal structure of the skin is explored using
high-quality computer graphics. 20 minutes.
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CBM319
THE SKIN
Video
Describes the role of the skin and how it works. Illustrates the epidermis and
each sublayer of the dermis. Discusses the characteristics of each tissue
layer. Extensive attention is paid to the structure and function of the accessory
organs such as hair follicles; sweat glands; and cutaneous sensory organs for heat, cold,
pressure, and pain. Describes several factors involved in wound healing and tissue
repair. 26 minutes.
CBM323
SKIN — THE VULNERABLE AND PROTECTIVE WALL
Video
We come into the world naked; unlike animals, we lack any fur or other kind of
protective shell. This means we have to protect our bodies by wearing
clothing. The surface of the skin reacts to cold by forming so-called “goose
pimples” — and to heat by secreting fluid. To enable him to survive, man
has created aids which have helped him solve the problems of adaptation to his
environment. 30 minutes.
CBM325
SKIN DEEP
Video
This program looks at the sense receptors that depend on contact with the immediate
world: taste buds, touch sensors, and olfactory cells. The receptors also
sense heat, pain, and pressure. The complex world just beneath the skin is recreated
with realistic models, showing events like the pulling of a hair from the viewpoint of the
root. 26 minutes.
CBM326
SMELL
Video
A look at what science knows about smell and at the various steps involved in making
perfume and other scented products. 23 minutes.
CBM329
SMELL AND TASTE
Video
The sense of smell and the sense of taste can, in certain circumstances, save
someone’s life. These two senses are essential to most animals. The way
the sense of smell functions, how it is coordinated with the brain, and how we are able to
taste things are explained in this video. 30 minutes.
CBM331
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Video
This program looks at the extreme sensitivity of the rods in the human eye. It
examines the limits of sensitivity of the human ear. It looks at some examples of
extraordinary sensual sensitivity in animals, and analyzes how the human senses detect and
discriminate between signals over wide operating ranges and then transmit their messages
along the rather low-quality cables constituted by the nerve fibers connecting them to the
brain. 26 minutes.
CBM333
THE SPECIAL SENSES
Video
This program describes the individual senses and the interactions with the brain.
Each sensory receptor is emphasized. Special importance is placed on vision,
hearing, smell, and taste. It describes the eyeball, discusses the process of
refraction, and illustrates the structures of the ear. Structural characteristics of
the taste receptors and the olfactory epithelium are presented. 28 minutes.
CBM335
STUTTERING AND OTHER SPEECH DISORDERS
Video
This program focuses on stuttering and other problems resulting from trauma, and on the
therapies used to treat them. It profiles a 41-year-old man who stutters, and
describes how his disorder has affected his life. The program shows how self-help
groups are helping those suffering from this often misunderstood speech disorder.
Emphasis is on the importance of early recognition of the problem. 19 minutes.
CBM336
TASTE
Video
How the sense of taste operates both as one of our lines of defense against the
potentially dangerous world around us and as a source of pleasure. 23 minutes.
CBM337
TECHNOLOGY, TRUMPETS, AND TUNES
Video
This program covers all the wind instruments, including the pipe organ. It
considers the way in which the technology of making instruments has affected the course of
musical development. It examines the subject of vibrations in tubes, the role of
finger holds, the components of tone quality. 60 minutes.
CBM338
TOUCH
Video
A look at how the skin distinguishes widely varying stimuli; the hand, our principal
instrument of touch; and the world of major burn victims who have lost much of their skin
and consequently their tactile sense. 23 minutes.
CBM341 A
20/20 VIEW OF EYE CARE
Video
This program introduces the viewer to an understanding of the eye and how it
works. It tells the difference between an optician, optometrist, and
ophthalmologist. It discusses the Four Refractive Errors of the eye. It
explains how eye charts are used to measure eye sight. It covers common eye diseases
and their treatment, including cataract and glaucoma. It contains a segment on laser
surgery for various eye ailments. 25 minutes.
CBM343
WHAT IS MUSIC?
Video
This program examines sound waves, why some sounds are musical and others just noise,
and the relationship of regularity or irregularity of vibration to the perception of
musicality. It discusses such non-scientific questions as the cultural content of
musical perception. 60 minutes.
CBM345
WHAT THE NOSE KNOWS
Video
The sense of smell is only beginning to be understood. This program shows
scientists examining the relationship between smell and behavior. It describes how
species form mice and pigs to humans use odor to communicate, and shows how aroma
chemicals create odors that range from flowers to new cars to fresh laundry. 26
minutes.
CBM347
YOUR PASSAGEWAY TO YOUR SENSES
Video
This program discusses the structures of the ears and common medical problems related
to them. It covers prevention measures for swimmer’s ear and talks about the
various types of tubes being put into ears. It gives a better insight into
tonsillectomies and sinus problems. 25 minutes.
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