The Bell System Science Series
Season 1 • Episode 3: The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
October 26, 1957 • 55 min
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays is an examination of what cosmic rays are and how they work. It was written by Capra with Jonathan Latimer, a crime fiction novelist and screenwriter. As Gilbert describes it, the third and fourth films "repeated the formulas of his earlier work while ever searching for new contrivances for popularization as well as the best language to express his soft religious message" and that the script was essentially a reworking of ideas Capra had developed for a possible documentary about Robert A. Millikan.
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