Hemo the Magnificent (1957)
- Directed by
- Frank Capra
- Genre
- family film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A television program from the 1950s that explains how the human circulatory system works. It uses a mix of drama and science to teach viewers about blood and the heart.
educationalplayfuldramatizedslow-pacedcuriousinformative
What happens
Hemo the Magnificent is a one-hour Technicolor made-for-television educational film, released in 1957 by Bell Laboratories and directed by Frank Capra, and first telecast by CBS. It details the workings of the circulatory system. It is one program in The Bell System Science Series, a series of nine Bell Telephone science specials telecast in prime time on commercial network television from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. All but one of these specials starred Prof. Frank C. Baxter; the last of them starred Walt Disney. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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