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A NUMBER of Soviet scientific films were presented at the Imperial Institute Cinema on September 12 by the Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R. in conjunction with the Association of Scientific Workers. The films, which covered a wide range of subjects, were of absorbing interest and high technical quality. They included novelties in Soviet scientific and technical practice besides the popularization of well-known facts for children and adult lay audiences. The former featured some excellent photographs of the Black Sea Express, a two-keeled motor sea-glider for passengers, with a speed of fifty miles an hour, Prof. P. Kapitza's miniature turbine for producing cheaply liquid oxygen, and a clever device for protecting workers at the forge from heat with a screen of running water which absorbs the infra-red radiation. An artificial fledgling, made by children, which automatically opens its beak and projects the food inserted by the unwitting mother bird into a bottle of formalin, enabling a complete register to be made of the foods consumed by variousbirds and their consequent effect on crops, gave an example of how children can contribute to scientific knowledge. A film illustrating the effect of energy expenditure on blood circulation and showing the function of the spleen, and a clear exposition of Lena Stern's method of treating shock extended the programme to the field of medicine.
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Soviet Scientific Films. Nature 150, 342–343 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150342c0
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