AMER. ZOOL., 29:667-670 (1989)
Films and Videotapes on Cell and Molecular Biology1
GARY ANDERSON
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-5018
AND
N A T H A N H. HART
Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
The Science as a Way of Knowing (S A AWOK) Project was initiated by the Education Committee of the American Society
of Zoologists in 1982 to encourage
improvement in the teaching of biological
sciences, particularly at the introductory
level at colleges and universities. At the
Society's Annual Meeting, the Committee
convenes a symposium and organizes a film
program which focuses on an important
topic of biology that is standard in curricula. The film program focuses on audiovisual resources available for use in either
classroom or laboratory teaching settings.
The topic of the 1988 symposium was "Cell
and Molecular Biology." Previous topics
for which films and videotapes were compiled and published in the American Zoologist include "Evolutionary Biology" (Hart,
1984), "Human Ecology" (Anderson and
Hart, 1985), "Genetics" (Hart and Anderson, 1986), "Developmental Biology"
(Anderson and Hart, 1987), and "Form
and Function" (Hart and Anderson, 1988).
Although many films, filmstrips and videotapes are available for either purchase,
rental, or short term loan from college and
university media resources centers and
elsewhere, locating and evaluating such
audiovisual materials are often tedious and
frustrating tasks. Fortunately, in addition
to catalogues available through major
audiovisual resource libraries (i.e., members of the Consortium of University Film
Centers listed in Appendix), there are sev-
eral compendia summarizing such information which are of considerable assistance in expediting a search for appropriate
materials. We have found two of these to
be of special value in our work:
1) The Educational Film/Video Locator
of the Consortium of University Film
Centers and R. R. Bowker Co. (R. R.
Bowker Co., New York, NY). The 1986
edition of this work is a two volume
publication which is particularly informative, providing not only titles,
descriptions, available sources and subject listings of films and videotapes, but
also detailed information regarding
lending policies of the member institutions of the Consortium of University
Film Centers (Appendix).
2) Index to 16 mm Educational Films (8th
ed., 1984) and Index to Educational
Videotapes (6th ed., 1985). These
indices, available in most audiovisual
resources centers, are published by
NICEM (University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles,
CA 90007).
In addition, there are several online data
bases which can be searched to locate audiovisual materials. For example, AVLINE
is the data base of the National Library of
Medicine; it can be searched from more
than 1,500 institutions belonging to the
MEDLARS network.
Following is a listing of films and videocassettes which, based on their descriptions
in various film catalogues, relate to the topics Cell Biology and Molecular Biology.
1
From the Symposium on Science as a Way of Know- Most of these films are directed at college
ing—Crll and Molecular Biology presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, 27— level audiences and are readily available at
v
major film libraries.
i0 December 1988, at San Francisco, California.
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Abnormal Mitosis in Plant Cells
The Amoeba
Active Transport (VHS)
Antibody Diversity and Immunoregulation
Aplysia and its Giant Nerve Cells—Glimpse
into the Cellular Basis of Behavior
Bacteria
Bags of Life
B Cells and Antibodies
Behavior of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in
Living Cultured Cells
Beyond the Double Helix
Biological Membranes—Chemical Building Blocks
Biological Membranes—Fundamental
Characteristics
Biological Membranes—Physical Models;
Monolayer, Bilayer, and Liposomes
The Cell: A Functioning Structure, Part 1
The Cell: A Functioning Structure, Part 2
Cell
Cell Biological Studies on Physarum polycephalum: A Model to Investigate Cytoplasmic Actomyosin (VHS)
Cell Biology
Cell Biology—1. Functional Organization
Cell Biology: Life Functions
Cell Biology: Mitosis and DNA
Cell Biology, Nos. 1-12
Cell Biology: Structure and Composition
Cell Differentiation: The Search for the
Organizer
Cell Division in the Diatom Hantzschia
amphioxys
Cell Division: Mitosis and Meiosis
Cell Division, the Basis of Growth in All
Living Things
The Cell Principle and Biogenesis
Cell Reproduction—Mitosis
Cell Respiration
Cell Structure
Cells and Their Functions
Chemical Carcinogenesis: The Staging
Theory
Chemical Organization of the Cell
Chemical Systems of the Cell
The Chemistry of the Cell I: The Structure
of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
The Chemistry of the Cell II: The Function of DNA and RNA in Protein Synthesis
The Chemistry of Heredity I. Identification of Genetic Material and DNA Structure
The Chemistry of Heredity II. Protein
Synthesis
Chicken or Egg?
Chromatin
Contact Inhibition of Movement in Fibroblasts
Cytoplasmic Motility
Development and Differentiation
Differential Gene Expression
Diffusion and Osmosis (2nd ed.)
Diploid Male Meiosis in Acheta domesticus
DNA—Blueprint of Life
DNA—Laboratory of Life
DNA—Molecular of Heredity
DNA: The Thread of Life
The DNA Story
Dynamics of Helical Macrofiber Growth—
Writhing, Folding, Closepacking and
Contraction
Electron Microscopy
Experiment: Biology—The Isolation and
Metabolism of Mitochondria (VHS)
From Atoms to Organisms
From Cells to Living Organisms
Growth and Morphogenesis in Plant Cells
Growth and Reproduction in Saprolegnia
Human Muscle Spindle: An Advanced
Study
Ingestion and Digestion in the Ciliate Pseudomicrothorax dubius
Ingestion, Digestion and Defecation in
Paramecium
Inside the Cell, Part I: Enzymes in Intracellular Chemistry
Inside the Cell, Part II: Regulation of
Enzymes
The Interlocking Parts of the Cell Mechanism
Intracellular Movements of Protoplasm in
Noctiluca miliaris
Life and Death of a Cell
Life in a Cell
The Living Cell: DNA
Living Cell
Meiosis
Meiosis (2nd ed.)
Meiosis—Formation of the Spindle in Pales
ferruginea (Diptera)
FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES
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Meiosis—In Spermatogenesis of the Grass- The Origin of Life: Biochemical Evolution
Ooplasmic Segregation During Ascidian
hopper
Development
Meiosis—Spermatogenesis in Pales ferruOxidative Phosphorylation 1
ginea (Diptera)
Meiotic Division—Pales ferruginea (Dip- Oxidative Phosphorylation 2
Oxygen Liberation by Isolated Chlorotera)
plasts—The Hill Reaction
Membranes
The Paramecium
Metabolic Mazes
Patterns in Development—Cell MoveMetabolism
ment
Microelectrodes in Muscle
Mitochondria—Motility, Division and Phagocytes: The Body's Defenders
Phase Microscopy of Normal Living Blood
Fusion
Microtubules in Echinosphaerium nucleo- Cells
Phases of Mitosis
filum
Photosynthesis and Respiration Cycle
Mitosis
Physiology/Cell Biology
Mitosis—Xenopus
Principles of Genetics, No. 3: Mitosis
Mitosis (2nd ed.)
Principles of Genetics, No. 4: Meiosis
Mitosis and Meiosis
Principles of Genetics, No. 16: CrossingMitosis and Meiosis
over in Terms of Meiosis
Mitosis in Animal Cells
Mitosis in Endosperm II
Principles of Genetics, No. 35: NucleoMitosis in Endosperm IIIB
cytoplasmic Relations in Paramecium
Mitosis—Karyokinesis and Cytokinesis in Protein Synthesis
Protist Physiology
Animal and Plant Cells
Protista: Protozoa and Algae
Modeling Photosynthesis (VHS)
Protists: Form, Function and Ecology
Molecular Biology
Morphogenesis and Asexual Propagation Protists: Threshold of Life
Protoplasmic Streaming
in the Shelled Amoeba (Testacea)
Morphogenesis in the Myxobacteria Protoplasm—The Stuff of Life
Archangium, Myxococcus, Chondrococcus Protozoa—One Celled Animals
The Remarkable Phagocyte
and Chondromyces
Morphology and Reproduction of the Phy- The Ribosome
tomonads
The Rod Cell
Morphology, Division and Conjugation in Secret of the White Cell
Seifriz on Protoplasm
Paramecium
Separation of Chromatids During Mitosis
Morphology of the Radiolaria
Movement of the Protoplast and Function Signals and Receptors
T Cells
of the Golgi Apparatus in Algae
The Unseen World, Part I: How Small is
Muscle: A Study of Integration
Small?
Muscle: Chemistry of Contraction
Muscle: Dynamics of Contraction
The Skin as a Sense Organ
Muscle: Electrical Activity of Contraction Where There is Life There is Motion (Part
Naegleria gruberi (Amoebina) Feeding and
1): Function of Microtubules
Where There is Life There is Motion (Part
Asexual Division
2): Role of Microfilaments in Cell MotilA New Look at Leeuwenhoek's "Wee
ity
Beasties"
Normal Mitosis in Plant Cells
Observations of Living Primordial Germ
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Hart, N. H. 1984. Films, filmstrips and videotapes
in evolutionary biology. Amer. Zool. 24:465-466.
Hart, N. H. and G. Anderson. 1986. Films and videotapes in genetics. Amer. Zool. 26:907-913.
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