Another interesting 16mm reel from my film archive about how our digestive system works - though, the banquet of food would not appear too appetizing for most Americans! Enjoy....
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16 thoughts on “Digestion 1970”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars monkeyboy4746 says:

    Pizza with all the toppings, I bet that can keep you alive. Pizza as a survival food.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Eric Fielding says:

    I wonder what they put in the food that guy ate for the X-ray filming. Something that absorbed the X-rays more than bones.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mark Hesse says:

    I remember watching this very film in 4th or 5th grade in 1970 or 71. The whole class groaned when seeing the x-ray film of the person chewing and swallowing. Cool to see it again all these years later.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bill Allemon says:

    No expense spared on props. 😂

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Anthony Scott says:

    Ahh, the good ol' Renwal "Visible Man" used again as a prop…

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars good 'un says:

    Along these same lines, I recommend the book "Gulp: adventures along the alimentary canal" by Mary Roach, which starts with salivation and mastication, continues with ingestion and digestion, and ends with elimination. Her books are always funny and entertaining as well as enlightening. And as for the "end product" 💩, I recommend "The Big Necessity: the world of human waste and why it matters" by Elizabeth Rose George.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Scott from Baltimore says:

    I like to say humans are worms with parasitic brains. If the worm is happy, everything else is fine.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars MrChanw 11 says:

    Do you ever find some old educational films that get some parts of the science wrong?

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ryan W1RMD says:

    The beginning part of this video left out the damage done by voles, mice, woodchucks and disease. Of course in 1970 we didn't have the same pests we do now. I love your vintage films! Thanks Fran!

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Cancel19 says:

    Miss the "radio quality" voices for narration used back then.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Keri Szafir says:

    Another good no-bullshit education film. Thanks a lot!

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lethgar Smith says:

    As a child of the 70s this was exactly the kind of thing that was shown to us quite often in elementary school.

    By the 5th grade the entire student body had become quite proficient projectionist just from being around the projectors and seeing how they worked. If something went wrong during a showing we would call out to the teacher what she needed to do to correct the image. Focus! Framing! Tension!

    We were an impatient and grumpy bunch during movie time.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kabuki Jo says:

    Fun Fact: pooping is also part of digestion and is required to live.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Maor Avni says:

    It was smart of you not to include any fart sounds so you can't get copyright infringement by Sony!

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Science Team says:

    I am concerned for the dude who got x-rayed just for the video.
    But since it's been more than 50 years, I assume he's not here any longer.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars B M says:

    very informative Fran and thank you for the upload, curious about copyright, as it's just 1970? i was hammered by Sony and UMPG Publishing for a song I composed on a free music creation site, Sony and UMPG claim I am infringing on the composition, maybe i should take that as a compliment that my song sounds similar to another enough to be flagged even though it was entirely harmless and unintentional

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