Does anyone remember Hemo the Magnificent

[KitchenWitch]

That was such a cool film, and very educational.

Frank Capra produced it!

[Bridget Burke]

1. Yes--& it's available on DVD.

I think I only saw it once & remember it well. Always hoped it would be re-run.

Thanks to you, I checked Amazon!

[KitchenWitch]

2. Cool, I may have to get a copy of it.

[swimboy]

3. Yeah--

and they did another one they showed us in school about the Coriolus Effect. Weird, huh? :hi:

[LibertyLover]

8. Weather

I remember that one too - the people sitting on a turntable throwing a ball to each other as the turntable moved to demonstrate the coriolus effect.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. It was an episode of a late 1950s-early 1960s science program called

Conquest, which played on Sunday afternoons. Think of it as an ancestor of Nova.

In the days before PBS, Sunday was the day for "educational" programming on the commercial networks. You got travelogues, classical music and opera performances, and science and other documentaries. Leonard Bernstein's famous "Young People's Concerts" were always on Sunday afternoon.

Sunday morning programs such as "Meet the Press" are survivors of this era.

Other episodes of Conquest that I remember are "The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays" and "Our Mr. Sun." (Yes, that was really the title.)

ON EDIT: I just looked these up on Amazon, and they're on DVD, too!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Not only do I remember it;, but I did find the DVD!

It is such a fascinating little bit of a work.....very advanced for it's time!

I love watching it......the bits where you actually see the blood coursing through the veins is marvelous!

I didn't remember that Frank Capra produced it.....cooooool......

I missed you last night....chickened out on my thread, too!

How was Monty Python?



:loveya: :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

9. Monty Python rocked

I got sleepy right after so I did not come back on until about 5 AM central time.

Probably better that you chickened out on that thread...lockity lock lock lock!

:loveya: :hug: :bounce:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. We'll see.....I have some other ideas!

:evilgrin:

[DS1]

6. this is just begging for a copycat

[KitchenWitch]

10. Go for it!

:woohoo:

[LibertyLover]

7. Great film

I remember watching it in 5th grade. It was one of those films that older kids talked about so everybody knew you saw in 5th grade. Everytime the film projector was wheeled in there was a "ooooh" moment - is today the day sort of thing. The day my class watched it, the teacher showed it just before lunch and some of my friends couldn't eat because they were too grossed out from seeing blood. Me, I thought it was cool.

[Metta]

12. I loved that film!

I saw it a couple of times in sixth grade back in the late '50s. I, too, thought it was really well done. Frank Capra, how about that? Thanks, Witch, for the memories.

[GalleryGod]

13. Hemo was THE best!

:yourock:

[Metta]

14. Hemo lives!

:thumbsup: :)