Product Details

• Actors: Dr. Frank C. Baxter
• Directors: Owen Crump
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Warner Bros.
• DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ZJKCMW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,180 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Gateways to the Mind / Thread of Life" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Science Specials with "Dr Research" (Dr. Frank Baxter)!, November 22, 2007

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Victor Costa "Film Student" (Fort Pierce, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gateways to the Mind / Thread of Life (DVD)

"Thread of Life" takes me back to the 6th grade, when I first saw this film about the senses. Any of the Bell Science Series made us kids happy to see our teacher break out the projector (we didn't have video tape or DVDs then!). The Chuck Jones animated sequences envokes the style of Bugs Bunny, The Grinch, and Tom & Jerry cartoons. The second episode in this set is about genetics from Mendel's pea plant experiments all the way to the then newly described DNA structure. Dr. Frank Baxter, sometimes called "Dr. Research" in the Bell Series, is charming and informative as always. A must!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Less Than Adequate, March 28, 2008

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Cumulonimbus (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gateways to the Mind / Thread of Life (DVD)

This is a generally poor quality, over-priced DVD of two excellent Bell Science television and school documentaries from the late fifties and early sixties. They deserve better treatment than this. The film quality, including color, sound and clarity is mediocre and even the packaging is ultra-cheap. I would purchase this only if a better edition does not come along shortly. Of course there are no "extras", or even any sort of minimal text material on the package. Quite a disappointment!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Frank Baxter, March 27, 2008

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Michael Vannier - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gateways to the Mind / Thread of Life (DVD)

Bell Telephone Science program from the late 1950's.
I saw this as a child and was delighted to learn it is now on DVD.
Originally we watched it in black-and-white at a time when biological science was mysterious to me. Still remember each and every episode after 50 years. And I never realized the original was in color.

MV