capra got letters.a chapter in his book about these films, and he cites a letter from a viewer telling capra that it was not and fine entertainment scientific education, but it was a religious experience as well. what is interesting about that is i think people make assumptions about the relationship between science and religion after the scopes trial in america. that was a widely publicized a clash between fundamentalist perspectives and scientific perspectives. what we get from watching this movie is a sense that there may be a kind of diversity of popular ideas about evolution and the relationship with science. and with religion. so how did this film get made? got made largely because of capra, but receive the way it was for several reasons. whichlks about the way in , you have to go back to television as a medium and development. the standards for different genres, documentaries, science education, inspiration were still being formed, so this is part of, the fact these things are not settled allows

interestingly carlson reinforced this idea of that capra had.d some of the later films when capra backed out. similarly, if you thought you heard daffy duck, you did. the man voicing many absolute agents characters lanier -- the man voicing many looney tunes characters was involved on this project. underscoring the point that we have people traveling from film culture into tv as an influential new medium. >> we talked about frankenstein and jaws. the fiction writer creates cartoon figures. there are animals alongside a greek god figure they call their king. he is the king of nature, the animals, but the personification of blood. he and his captive animals get into a conversation with the fiction writer. yes, he is called dr. research. dr. research it turns out is actually a university of southern california english professor named frank baxter. if you went to school in the 1960's and 1970's, you are guaranteed to have seen one of his films. he had a famous series about shakespeare. he became the personification of the scientists. they interact w