Materials for documentary film : People and particles, 1967-1968.

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Materials for documentary film : People and particles, 1967-1968.

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Collection consists of the unused film outtakes and sound track for the film "People and Particles" as well as a detailed index and description (roll by roll) to the contents of the film. The film focused on Harvard University physicists, both students and professors, at work at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Activities filmed include the actual building of experimental equipment in the laboratory, classroom lectures, conferences and meetings concerned with the Strauch-Walker experiment, meetings between graduate students and professors where science and non-science topics are discussed, social situations, parties, picnics, etc.

155 600 ft. rolls of 1/4 in. magnetic tape in 62 tins.

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