The miracle of life
1999
DVD
Shows the actual conception and development of a baby. Looks inside the male and female reproductive organs to show the formation of sperm and the passage of a fertilized egg through the fallopian tube. Uses a microscope to observe DNA, chromosomes, and other minute body details building up to the moment of birth.
Item Details
ISBN: 1578071968
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: Audience : Parental guidance.
Other Title: Nova (Television program)
Notes:
- "A Swedish Television Production in association with WGBH Boston"--Container.
- "The first filmed record of human conception, photographed by Lennart Nilsson"--Container.
- Accompanied by: DVD inserted into container: 18 x 25 cm.
- Copyright dates on title frames: 1982, 1983; packaging copyright date, 1999.
- Dolby digital.
- Home use only. Public performance rights NOT included.
- Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program Nova.
- Photography, Lennart Nilsson ; graphic designer, Paul Souza ; editor, Carl O. Lofman ; narrator, Anita Sangiolo ; original music, Anders Berglund.
- Narrator, Anita Sangiolo.
- Special DVD features include: Chapter search, closed captaining, Link to the award-winning NOVA website, Dolby sound.
- Educational public performance rights for life of tape.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Contents:
- The miracle begins
- Female reproduction
- Male reproduction
- The dance of life
- Barriers to conception
- The egg
- The fetus
- Birth.
Publisher or Distributor Number: WG799
Control Number: 3141984
Publisher: [Sweden] : Swedish Television Corporation, [1999]