How the Fires of Our Body Are Fed: A Study of the Human Digestive Process

How the Fires of Our Body Are Fed: A Study of the Human Digestive Process

Rejissyor: Carpenter-Goldman Laboratories, Inc.. A film about the bio-mechanics of digestion. 09:03:11:18 Great shot of shirtless man in the stoke-hole of ship shoveling coal into the fire. 09:04:00:06 Great shot man in 1920s swimsuit (shirt and shorts) dives into lake. 09:04:17:07 Great shot man swims past camera. 09:04:35:01 MS 1920s worker wearing a cap and overalls eating sandwich; high-angle man shoveling coal into furnace. 09:04:48:18 Great still image profile of strong-jawed worker wearing cap; anatomical details relating to parts of man’s head and throat are superimposed over image of worker. 09:05:50:26 Great MS worker inside of round frame; worker standing profile wearing cap chews; X-ray special effect of man’s food being swallowed is superimposed over shot of man. 09:07:08:29 Doctor sets up X-ray machine over man’s stomach. Great X-ray footage of man digesting food; peristalsis of the of the human intestine in X-ray. 09:10:28:15 Footage through microscope of peristalsis in a nematode. 09:13:44:22 Great simple animation of black heart and circulatory system blinking in white body. Outline of mans body with blinking heart, slowly circulatory system also blinking expands out from heart. VS through microscope blood capillaries. 09:16:33:20 CU disembodied man’s arm flexing bicep; graphic illustration showing the muscles and circulatory system superimposed over shot.

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