The Body (1970)

Directed by

Roy Battersby

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

15

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary uses cameras to look at the human body from the outside and the inside. Narrators explain what biologists and anatomical experts know about how our bodies work.

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What happens

The Body is a 1970 British scientific documentary film directed and produced by Roy Battersby. In the film, external and internal cameras are used to showcase the human body. The film's narrators, Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave, provide commentary that combines the knowledge of human biologists and anatomical experts. The film's soundtrack, Music from the Body, was composed by Ron Geesin and Roger Waters. It includes songs that were made using the human body as a medium. Waters is also the narrator of one scene. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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