Horizon - Season 2 / Year 1965

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Learning from Machines

Year 1965Episode 160 min

Learning from Machines

At a time when the use of teaching machines is fast expanding, Horizon looks at the principles behind them and enquires into their success

The Technique of Change

Year 1965Episode 260 min

The Technique of Change

Horizon profiles the Bell Laboratories in the United States. They are one of the most important research and development centers where more than 4000 scientists work with a budget of one hundred million pounds every year. Horizon investigates the possibility of setting up a similar research station in Britain.

Year 1965Episode 360 min

Star Gazers

Horizon explores American plans to launch a space observatory to map the universe and learn how stars are created.

Science and Art

Year 1965Episode 460 min

Science and Art

Horizon looks at the relationship between science and art, and also explores artists attitudes towards science.

The Great Computer Scandal

Year 1965Episode 560 min

The Great Computer Scandal

Horizon investigates the states of big research computers in Britain. Also, Horizon looks at the H-Bomb Detectors and how British scientists have developed a nuclear explosion detector which has changed the political outlook for nuclear test controls.

Faster, Farther, Higher

Year 1965Episode 660 min

Faster, Farther, Higher

Is there a fifth force in the Universe, or must we revise our ideas about time? Horizon visits the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory where an experiment is running to settle this, and talks to Dr. Lipman.

Restless Genius

Year 1965Episode 760 min

Restless Genius

Prof. Andrade presents a tribute to Robert Hooke: architect, astronomer, geologist, and meteorologist who discovered the cell. This episode also includes a report on a 36 year study of the cell wall by Prof. Preston.

Other Side of the Pill

Year 1965Episode 860 min

Other Side of the Pill

Every day, on average, another 431 British women start taking the contraceptive pill. The manufacturers insist that it is the most carefully tested drug on the market today. But some scientists and doctors are concerned about the potential long-term effects of taking it.

Year 1965Episode 960 min

The Big Smoke

Nine years after the passing of the Clean Air Act, where do we stand? Scientists are gradually finding out why dirty air Is so harmful to ill persons with Dr. P. J. Lawther of Air Pollution Research Centre at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Whenever the things they study are too big, too far off, or too hot to handle, scientists can make a model of these-but can they be sure their models truly represent reality?

Year 1965Episode 1060 min

The Long Slide

When a rubber tyre rolls fast on a wet surface it may rise on a film of water and begin to 'aquaplane.' Scientists are studying this fact which creates a real hazard to aircraft passengers and fast drivers. A new membrane developed in America holds forth the prospect of men being able to live under water.

Year 1965Episode 1160 min

Men and Sharks

Horizon looks at Prof. Perry Gilbert's research on captured sharks and meets with the eminent physiologist Sir Henry Dale as he celebrates his 90th birthday and looks back on his career in medical research. The eminent physiologist, who celebrates his ninetieth birthday today, looks back on his first discovery sixty years ago.

The Sudden Light

Year 1965Episode 1260 min

The Sudden Light

Dr. Jacob Bronowski, who a year ago took up the deputy directorship of the Salk Institute in California, discusses with Tom Rosenthal his new activities and how he feels about working in the golden West. The recent total eclipse of the sun was probably the most closely studied ever. With special film from the Pacific, Horizon examines what was done and why. For the first time deaf children can see a visual pattern of their own attempts at speech. In the programme a new machine is shown which may revolutionize the teaching of speech and language to these handicapped children.

Dr. Joseph Needham

Year 1965Episode 1360 min

Dr. Joseph Needham

This episode of Horizon features Dr. Joseph Needham, an eminent scientist and humanist who is perhaps the greatest living authority on China. An account of the space probe Mariner IV which will be flying past Mars tonight.

Science Fiction: Science Fact?

Year 1965Episode 1460 min

Science Fiction: Science Fact?

Is all science fiction merely fantasy - or can it give valuable clues to the future? A discussion between Desmond Morris and the ethologist George Schaller.

Certain of Uncertainty

Year 1965Episode 1560 min

Certain of Uncertainty

The four men who opened up a new field of physics: Max Born, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and George Thompson meet and discuss topic with John Charap at the annual science conference in Lindau, Germany.

Time Stood Still

Year 1965Episode 1660 min

Time Stood Still

Professor Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has won international recognition for his achievements in ultra-high-speed photography, talks about his work and shows some of the remarkable pictures, both still and moving, that he has taken.

Fuel for the Future

Year 1965Episode 1760 min

Fuel for the Future

Horizon interviews Prof. Andrade about his collection of rare scientific books which he was about to sell.

Year 1965Episode 1860 min

Let Newton Be

On the 300th anniversary of Isaac Newton's greatest year of discovery, one of his most ardent disciples, Prof. Julius Summer-Miller, comes from California to illustrate the excitement of seeing Newton's principles in action.

Year 1965Episode 1960 min

Special Senses

What sort of person can invent a 3-D microscope, a new way of photographing the moon, publish fifty papers on perception, and spend three weeks hunting for a minute sea creature to see how its eyes work? Cambridge psychologist Richard Gregory is a man of many facets. Tonight's film examines his inventiveness—its sources and its products. An M.R.C. team headed by Dr. D. G. Phillips has taken the first step towards answering the vital question: how do enzymes work?

An Affair of the Heart

Year 1965Episode 2060 min

An Affair of the Heart

Horizon explores heart attacks and thrombosis.

Year 1965Episode 2160 min

10,000 Tombs

Horizon probes into the Etruscan tombs in Italy. Carlo Lerici, scientist and archaeologist, has brought past and future together. Using geophysical methods intended for mineral surveying, he has detected 10,000 unknown Etruscan tombs in ten years.

Toil, Sweat & Tears

Year 1965Episode 2260 min

Toil, Sweat & Tears

Horizon profiles the scientist, polymath, and Nobel prize winner Prof. Albert Szent-Gyorgi.

The Big Dishes and the Living Stream

Year 1965Episode 2360 min

The Big Dishes and the Living Stream

A look at some of the huge new radio telescopes which have recently started work in Britain, France, Russia, America, and elsewhere. Sir Bernard Lovell, Professor Martin Ryle, and M. Émile-Jacques Blum explain the scientific motive for this vast expenditure.

Boys on Bubbles

Year 1965Episode 2460 min

Boys on Bubbles

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